IP Library Patent Application 17426006
Patent Application
App. No. 17/426,006

COOLING DEVICE FOR AN OBJECT DETECTION SENSOR

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App. No.
17/426,006
Abstract

A cooling device for an object detection sensor, having a sensor-side heat transmission element, a sensor-distant heat absorption element, wherein the sensor-side heat transmission element and the sensor-distant heat absorption element are arranged opposite to one another, wherein a heat transmission surface of the sensor-distant heat transmission element and a heat absorption surface of the sensor-distant heat absorption element are designed to be spaced apart from one another by an intermediate space. Furthermore, an object detection sensor including such a cooling device is described.

Claims (21)

1 . A cooling device for an object detection sensor, comprising

a sensor-side heat transmission element

a sensor-distant heat absorption element

wherein the sensor-side heat transmission element and the sensor-distant heat absorption element are arranged opposite to one another, wherein

a heat transmission surface of the sensor-side heat transmission element and a heat absorption surface of the sensor-distant heat absorption element are designed to be spaced apart from one another by an intermediate space,

wherein the cooling device is designed to provide a relative movement between the heat transmission element and the heat absorption element, wherein the relative movement is a pivoting movement.

2 . The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat transmission element is formed by sensor housing of the object detection sensor or is connected to a sensor housing of the object detection sensor.

3 . The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat absorption element is formed by a holding element or is connected to a holding element.

4 . (canceled)

5 . The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat transmission element and the heat absorption element have a distance to one another at each relative position so that there is no abutting contact between them.

6 . The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat transmission element and/or the heat absorption element have/has ribs.

7 . The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the ribs of the heat transmission element and the ribs of the opposite heat absorption element engage with one another.

8 . The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein between two adjacent ribs of the heat transmission element or heat absorption element, a free space is formed in which a rib of the opposite heat absorption element or heat transmission element engages.

9 . The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat transmission element is in abutting contact with a circuit board and/or a chip of the object detection sensor.

10 . The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat transmission surface has a surface optimized for emission and/or the sensor-distant heat transmission surface has a surface optimized for absorption.

11 . An object detection sensor comprising a cooling device for an object detection sensor,

said cooling device comprising:

a sensor-side heat transmission element; and

a sensor-distant heat absorption element;

wherein the sensor-side heat transmission element and the sensor-distant heat absorption element are arranged opposite to one another, wherein a heat transmission surface of the sensor-side heat transmission element and a heat absorption surface of the sensor-distant heat absorption element are designed to be spaced apart from one another by an intermediate space; and

wherein the cooling device is designed to provide a relative movement between the heat transmission element and the heat absorption element, wherein the relative movement is a pivoting movement.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2023
From: MICROVISION GMBH
To: MICROVISION, INC.
Reel/Frame 063061/0272 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 7, 2023
From: IBEO AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH
To: MICROVISION GMBH
Reel/Frame 062973/0909 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 29, 2021
From: HAKSPIEL, STEFAN; FRICK, SIMON
To: IBEO AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH
Reel/Frame 058230/0934 →