US 11,752,980 B2
Image recording device, assembly, cleaning device and motor vehicle
Stefan Fritz Brouwer, Schoonhoven (NL)
Assigned to MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V., Woerden (NL)
Appl. No. 16/620,151
Filed by MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V., Woerden (NL)
PCT Filed Jun. 5, 2018, PCT No. PCT/NL2018/050363
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 6, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/226094, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 13, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2019024 (NL), filed on Jun. 6, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0180570 A1, Jun. 11, 2020
Int. Cl. B60S 1/56 (2006.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); B60S 1/02 (2006.01); B60S 1/60 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01); F28G 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60S 1/566 (2013.01) [B60R 11/04 (2013.01); B60S 1/02 (2013.01); B60S 1/603 (2013.01); G02B 27/0006 (2013.01); B60R 2011/008 (2013.01); F28G 3/00 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording device for a body of a motor vehicle, comprising:
a housing part;
an optical element having an outer surface
a movable cleaning device having an engaging part and a cleaning part for at least partly cleaning said outer surface of the optical element; and
a driving part configured to cooperate with the engaging part,
wherein during use the image recording device is arranged to drive said driving part so as to drive the movable cleaning device such that the cleaning part of said movable cleaning device at least partly cleans said outer surface of the optical element,
wherein the image recording device is adjustable between a first condition in which the image recording device allows at least partly introducing or taking out the engaging part of the movable cleaning device, and a second condition in which the image recording device prevents the engaging part of the movable cleaning device from being taken out or being introduced,
wherein the image recording device further comprises a first passage located in the housing part and a second passage located in the driving part, and
wherein in the first condition of the image recording device the first passage and the second passage link up with each other and form a composite feed-through channel through which at least a portion of the engaging part of the movable cleaning device can be displaced such that said portion of the engaging part is thereby partly displaced through the first passage and partly through the second passage.