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- Patent Title: Vehicle cleaner system and vehicle system
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Application No.: US16977575Application Date: 2019-03-04
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Publication No.: US11772612B2Publication Date: 2023-10-03
- Inventor: Masaru Sakai , Kazuki Kawamura , Akinobu Kubota , Masaaki Sato
- Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP 18041032 2018.03.07 JP 18041036 2018.03.07 JP 18041037 2018.03.07 JP 18041038 2018.03.07
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/008282 2019.03.04
- International Announcement: WO2019/172159A 2019.09.12
- Date entered country: 2020-09-02
- Main IPC: B60S1/56
- IPC: B60S1/56 ; B60S1/52 ; B60S1/54 ; G07C5/08 ; G05D1/00 ; G08G1/0969

Abstract:
A vehicle cleaner system includes: a cleaner unit mounted on a vehicle and configured to clean an external sensor acquiring information on outside of the vehicle; an advanced notification information acquiring unit configured to acquire expressway advanced notification information notifying that the vehicle has arrived within a predetermined distance from an entrance of an expressway; and a cleaner control unit configured to, when the advanced notification information acquiring unit has acquired the expressway advanced notification information, control the cleaner unit to clean the external sensor or diagnose whether or not the external sensor needs to be cleaned by the cleaner unit.
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