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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2011
Applicants:
Manabu Ono, Okazaki, JP;
Toshihiro Hattori, Okazaki, JP;
Inventors:
Manabu Ono, Okazaki, JP;
Toshihiro Hattori, Okazaki, JP;
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A vehicle optical sensor device has a snow/ice removal orifice for jetting the cleansing fluid toward an upper space of a lens and an optical sensor cleansing orifice for jetting the cleaning fluid toward a lens surface of the lens of a camera. The jetted fluid from the snow/ice removal orifice and the optical sensor cleansing orifice removes snow/ice protruding from a sensor top cover of a case into a front upper space of the lens in an eaves shape and foreign matter on the lens surface of the lens of the camera.