Mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor used in a vehicle including an automatic driving system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10458821-B2
Application number	US-201715491073-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 19, 2017
Priority date	Apr 26, 2016
Publication date	Oct 29, 2019
Grant date	Oct 29, 2019

Abstract

A mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor includes an aeropart that is disposed above a cabin of a truck, the aeropart including a wall surface that faces toward a front direction, a wall surface that faces toward an upper direction, wall surfaces that face outward in a transverse direction, and a wall surface that faces toward a rear direction. The peripheral information detection sensor is mounted within a space enclosed by the wall surfaces, and a cover is provided on at least one wall surface that lies opposite the peripheral information detection sensor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor comprising:
an aeropart that is disposed above a cabin of a truck and that has wall surfaces, the truck including an automatic driving system, and the wall surfaces of the aeropart including a wall surface that faces toward a vehicle body front direction, a wall surface that faces toward a vehicle body upper direction, wall surfaces that face outward in a vehicle transverse direction, and a wall surface that faces toward a vehicle body rear direction;
a peripheral information detection sensor that is mounted within a space enclosed by the wall surfaces of the aeropart; and
a cover that is provided on at least one wall surface that lies opposite the peripheral information detection sensor, among the wall surface of the aeropart facing toward the vehicle body front direction and the wall surfaces of the aeropart facing outward in the vehicle transverse direction, and through which only a detection medium that is required for peripheral information detection can be transmitted.

2. The mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor according to claim 1 , wherein the peripheral information detection sensor is provided either directly or indirectly on one of the wall surfaces of the aeropart.

3. The mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor according to claim 2 , wherein an upper portion side of the wall surface of the aeropart that faces toward the vehicle body front direction slopes towards a rear.

4. The mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor according to claim 1 , wherein the peripheral information detection sensor is provided via an elastic body on one of the wall surfaces of the aeropart.

5. The mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor according to claim 4 , wherein an upper portion side of the wall surface of the aeropart that faces toward the vehicle body front direction slopes towards a rear.

6. The mounting structure according to claim 4 , wherein the peripheral information detection sensor is provided via the single elastic body on one of the wall surfaces of the aeropart.

7. The mounting structure according to claim 4 , wherein one end of the elastic body is attached to the wall surface of the aeropart and other end of the elastic body is a free end not attached to the wall surface, and the peripheral information detection sensor is disposed on the free end.

8. The mounting structure according to claim 4 , wherein the elastic body is a protruding bracket that protrudes toward an inside of the aeropart from the wall surface that faces toward the vehicle body rear direction or the wall surfaces that face outward in the vehicle transverse direction.

9. The mounting structure according to claim 4 , wherein the elastic body is a compression coil spring that is attached to the wall face that faces toward the vehicle body upper direction inside of the aeropart.

10. The mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor according to claim 1 , wherein an upper portion side of the wall surface of the aeropart that faces toward the vehicle body front direction slopes towards a rear.

11. The mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein the cover is provided so as to close off a through hole that is formed on the at least one wall surface that lies opposite the peripheral information detection sensor.

12. A mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor, comprising:
an aeropart that is disposed on top of a cabin of a truck and that has wall surfaces, the truck including an automatic driving system, and the wall surfaces of the aeropart including a wall surface that faces toward a vehicle body front direction, a wall surface that faces toward a vehicle body upper direction, and wall surfaces that face outward in a vehicle transverse direction;
a peripheral information detection sensor that is provided on the wall surface of the aeropart that faces toward the vehicle body upper direction; and
a cover that extends toward the vehicle body upper direction from one of the wall surfaces of the aeropart so as to be opposite the peripheral information detection sensor, and through which only a detection medium that is required for peripheral information detection is able to be transmitted.

13. The mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor according to claim 12 , wherein an upper portion side of the wall surface of the aeropart that faces toward the vehicle body front direction slopes towards a rear.

14. The mounting structure for a peripheral information detection sensor according to claim 13 , wherein the cover is provided on the rearward-sloping portion of the wall surface of the aeropart that faces toward the vehicle body front direction.

15. The mounting structure according to claim 12 , wherein the peripheral information detection sensor is provided in contact with only the wall that faces toward the vehicle body upper direction.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ohmi Masanobu
• Yamamoto Seiji
• Matsumura Yoshiaki
• Sakakibara Kosuke
• Sugie Kazuki
• Kinoshita Misato

Classifications

• B62D35/001

  For commercial vehicles or tractor-trailer combinations, e.g. caravans · CPC title

• G01D11/30 Primary

  Supports specially adapted for an instrument; Supports specially adapted for a set of instruments · CPC title

• B60R11/0264

  for control means · CPC title

• Y02T10/82

  Elements for improving aerodynamics · CPC title

• G01S2013/93272

  in the back of the vehicles · CPC title