US 12,291,174 B2
Front section of a motor vehicle
Oliver Haff, Munich (DE); Felix Schumacher, Munich (DE); and Jasmin Tahan, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/427,983
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/050722
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/169268, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 104 154.6 (DE), filed on Feb. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0118948 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. B60S 1/50 (2006.01); B62D 25/12 (2006.01)
CPC B60S 1/50 (2013.01) [B62D 25/12 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A front section of a motor vehicle, comprising:
a front section body which has a front hood;
a chassis having structural parts disposed in a receptacle space of the front section body so as to be at least in part under the front hood;
a multi-chamber pad which is fillable with sufficient water to wash all sensors used in a fully automated driving mode of the motor vehicle, the multi-chamber pad being disposed at least in a first sub-region of the receptacle space; and
a branching water line system fluidically connected to the at least one multi-chamber pad, the branching water line system being disposed in the first sub-region, wherein
at least one throttle is provided between some or all chambers of the multi-chamber pad,
the at least one throttle retains water, and
only those chambers of the multi-chamber pad that are disposed in a central region are fluidically connected to the branching system.