Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electrostatic lens cleaning
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Application No.: US15547029Application Date: 2016-01-25
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Publication No.: US10511748B2Publication Date: 2019-12-17
- Inventor: Matthew Barton
- Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Stuttgart
- Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
- Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Stuttgart
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2016/014738 WO 20160125
- International Announcement: WO2016/123026 WO 20160804
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; B08B6/00 ; B60S1/56 ; G02B27/00 ; B08B17/02

Abstract:
An automotive camera including a camera lens with one or more conductive accumulators and a method of cleaning the camera lens using the conductive accumulators. The automotive camera includes a lens bezel coupled to the camera lens. The lens bezel may be coupled to the conductive accumulators. The conductive accumulators receive electric charge from a power supply of a vehicle and concentrate the electric charge on pointed ends of the conductive accumulators. The charged, pointed ends attract water particles away from the camera lens. The water particles accumulate at the conductive accumulators until gaining sufficient mass. When sufficient mass is gained, the water particles flow across the lens bezel and away from the camera lens.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180013933A1 ELECTROSTATIC LENS CLEANING Public/Granted day:2018-01-11
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