Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device for controlling defogging unit of vehicle
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Application No.: US16371179Application Date: 2019-04-01
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Publication No.: US11242035B2Publication Date: 2022-02-08
- Inventor: Kenichiro Maeda , Takuya Kondo
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya
- Agency: Hamess, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JPJP2016-200223 20161011,JPJP2017-024338 20170213
- Main IPC: B60S1/02
- IPC: B60S1/02 ; B60S1/56 ; B60H1/00 ; B60H1/32

Abstract:
A device controls a defogging unit of a vehicle to be driven in a driving mode corresponding to a self-driving degree indicating a degree of depending on a self-driving system for a driving operation, and the defogging unit defogs a window of the vehicle. The device includes: an identification unit that identifies the self-driving degree; and a control execution unit that controls the anti-fogging function exhibited by the defogging unit. The self-driving degree is defined as exhibiting a higher value as the degree of depending on the self-driving system for the driving operation is larger. When the self-driving degree identified by the identification unit is a second value higher than a first value, the control execution unit controls the anti-fogging function executed by the defogging unit to be lower than that when the self-driving degree identified by the identification unit is the first value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190225189A1 DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING DEFOGGING UNIT OF VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2019-07-25
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