US 12,145,509 B2
Sensor mounting structure for vehicle
Tsuyoshi Izuhara, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP); Taro Hasegawa, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP); and Tomoya Takeda, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/897,437.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-144653 (JP), filed on Sep. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0072056 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 11/00 (2013.01) [B60R 2011/004 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0052 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor mounting structure for a vehicle, comprising:
first mounting members extending in a vehicle front-and-rear direction, being separated by a spacing in a vehicle width direction, and being mountable at arbitrary positions of a roof of the vehicle; and
second mounting members extending in the vehicle width direction, being separated by a spacing in the vehicle front-and-rear direction, and being configured to span between arbitrary positions of the first mounting members, the second mounting members and the first mounting members retaining a sensor support member, wherein:
the sensor support member is formed in a rectangular flat plate shape, and
a portion of the sensor support member is sandwiched by the first mounting members and second mounting members.