CLEANING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE COMPONENT
Patent, 2022

A cleaning system for removal of contaminants from a surface of a vehicle component exposed to a gas or fluid flow, the cleaning system comprising: an excitation device adapted to be attached to the vehicle component in the vicinity of the surface exposed to contaminants, wherein the excitation device is configured to cause the surface to mechanically vibrate by transferring a vibrational excitation to the surface; wherein the frequency of the vibrational excitation is controllable to be based on the configuration of the vehicle component as well as other modelled/measured parameters.

Inventor

Raik Orbay

Volvo Cars

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Engineering

Volvo Cars

US11525423B2

19/676,497

Subject Categories

Applied Mechanics

Vehicle Engineering

Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics

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10/6/2023