US 11,851,079 B2
Device for cleaning a sensor of a vehicle and an operation method thereof
Jung Seok Suh, Yongin-si (KR); Hong Gyu Lee, Goyang-si (KR); Ja Yoon Goo, Anyang-si (KR); and Hyung Ju Cha, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/843,597.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0004135 (KR), filed on Jan. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0219589 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60Q 1/50 (2006.01); B60S 1/56 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [B60K 35/00 (2013.01); B60Q 1/543 (2022.05); B60S 1/56 (2013.01); B60K 2370/111 (2019.05); B60K 2370/161 (2019.05); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, performed by a device of a vehicle, for sensor cleaning management, the method comprising:
determining whether to initiate sensor cleaning;
providing first information on the sensor cleaning to an occupant inside of the vehicle;
providing second information on the sensor cleaning to a person outside of the vehicle, wherein the providing of the second information includes providing the second information visually and/or audibly from the vehicle toward an outside of the vehicle; and
determining, by a sensor cleaning management device, to stop the sensor cleaning in response to a detection of a pedestrian present outside the vehicle by the sensor cleaning management device.