US 11,796,356 B2
Sensor installation structure
Masayuki Yamaji, Miyoshi (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/96,058.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-206548 (JP), filed on Nov. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0148737 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. G01D 11/30 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01); B62D 25/02 (2006.01)
CPC G01D 11/305 (2013.01) [B62D 25/02 (2013.01); G01S 13/931 (2013.01); G01S 2013/93274 (2020.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor installation structure, comprising:
an exterior panel provided at a side part of a vehicle, the exterior panel including:
a fender panel; and
an additional panel that is attached to an outward side, in a vehicle width direction, of the fender panel;
an installation surface arranged at a location recessed inward in the vehicle width direction from a general surface of the exterior panel;
a connecting surface connecting between a peripheral edge of the installation surface and the general surface;
a surroundings information sensor that detects surroundings information of the vehicle and that is located inward in the vehicle width direction from the installation surface; and
a fastening hole for fastening the surroundings information sensor is formed in a portion of the fender panel which portion is to be covered by the additional panel, wherein
the connecting surface, in elevating from the peripheral edge of the installation surface toward the general surface, slopes so as to extend outward in a surface direction when viewed from the installation surface, wherein
the installation surface and the connecting surface are formed in the additional panel.