Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle light assembly sensing moisture with light reflection
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Application No.: US15586667Application Date: 2017-05-04
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Publication No.: US10429025B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Stuart C. Salter , Paul Kenneth Dellock , Aaron Bradley Johnson , Stephen Kenneth Helwig , Pietro Buttolo
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Price Heneveld LLP
- Agent Vichit Chea
- Main IPC: F21S45/33
- IPC: F21S45/33 ; F21S45/37 ; B60Q1/00 ; F21S45/60 ; F21S41/20 ; F21V29/90

Abstract:
A vehicle light assembly including a housing, a light source, a lens disposed in front of the light source, a light sensor disposed in the housing outside of light output from the light source directed at the lens for sensing light reflected off the lens caused by moisture, and a heater disposed on the lens for reducing the moisture when moisture is sensed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180320884A1 VEHICLE LIGHT ASSEMBLY SENSING MOISTURE WITH LIGHT REFLECTION Public/Granted day:2018-11-08
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