Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Battery-powered vehicle sensors
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Application No.: US17199688Application Date: 2021-03-12
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Publication No.: US11953586B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Stuart C. Salter , John Robert Van Wiemeersch , Donald Paul Bilger , Tarik Safir , Sam Harris
- 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: Bejin Bieneman PLC
- Agent Frank Lollo
- Main IPC: G01S13/88
- IPC: G01S13/88 ; B60Q1/00 ; B60R11/04 ; G01S13/86 ; G01V3/00 ; B60Q1/44 ; B60R11/00 ; H04L67/12

Abstract:
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to select a scanning rate for a first sensor of a vehicle based on at least one of data related to a current time or data related to a location of the vehicle; instruct the first sensor to run at the selected scanning rate; in response to receiving data from the first sensor indicating a newly present object, turn on a second sensor; and then record data from the second sensor. The second sensor has a higher power draw than the first sensor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220155436A1 BATTERY-POWERED VEHICLE SENSORS Public/Granted day:2022-05-19
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