| CPC B60S 1/485 (2013.01) [B60S 1/52 (2013.01); B60S 1/58 (2013.01); B60S 1/603 (2013.01)] | 5 Claims |
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1. A vehicle cleaner system, comprising:
a single liquid pump;
a plurality of cleaners which are connected to the single liquid pump and clean different cleaning target objects with a cleaning medium, the cleaning target objects including at least one sensor which detects information on outside of a vehicle, a window, and a headlamp;
a cleaner control unit which operates the plurality of cleaners in a selected cleaning mode from a plurality of cleaning modes in accordance with input of operation signals, the plurality of cleaning modes being different from each other; and
a signal generation unit which, upon receiving a starter signal from the vehicle, generates a number of the operation signals periodically at predetermined intervals to be output to the cleaner control unit;
wherein
the cleaner control unit selects the selected cleaning mode based on a selected driving mode of the vehicle from a plurality of driving modes comprising an automatic driving mode and a manual driving mode and based on a brightness surrounding the vehicle,
each of the plurality of cleaners is provided with an actuator electrically connected to the cleaner control unit and configured to open the cleaner and to discharge the cleaning liquid to the cleaning target object,
the cleaner control unit is configured to operate the respective actuators of the plurality of cleaners in accordance with the operation signals such that a magnitude relationship between a number of times of open operations of the plurality of cleaners and the number of the operation signals during a period of operation differs from each other, and
when the vehicle is driven in an automatic driving mode, the cleaner control unit controls the operation of the actuators of the plurality of cleaners such that the number of times of open operations of the cleaner for the window is larger than the number of times of open operations of the cleaner for the at least one sensor, and the number of times of open operations of the cleaner for the at least one sensor is larger than the number of times of open operations of the cleaner for the headlamp.
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