Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Object detection device
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Application No.: US16659820Application Date: 2019-10-22
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Publication No.: US10852430B2Publication Date: 2020-12-01
- Inventor: Tetsuya Aoyama , Yu Koyama , Dai Kondo
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya
- Agency: Maschoff Brennan
- Priority: JP2017-085496 20170424
- Main IPC: B60Q1/00
- IPC: B60Q1/00 ; G01S15/931 ; G01S7/52 ; G01S7/521 ; G01S7/526 ; G01S7/56 ; G01S15/87

Abstract:
An object detection device includes: a transceiver section that transmits an ultrasonic wave and receives an ultrasonic wave including a reflected wave of the transmitted ultrasonic wave, and outputs a signal in accordance with a wavelength of the received ultrasonic wave; a frequency control section that changes a frequency of the ultrasonic wave transmitted by the transceiver section to a plurality of frequencies different from a driving frequency used to detect the distance from the object; and a fault determination section that determines whether a fault occurs in the function of detecting the distance from the object due to a value of an environment temperature or a wavelength of the ultrasonic wave transmitted by the transceiver section, based on a value of the signal outputted from the transceiver section when the transceiver section transmits the ultrasonic wave at a selected one of the frequencies different from the driving frequency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200049818A1 OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-02-13
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