Sensor holder for a sensor for object detection

• US 9,851,432 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2013
• Issued: 12/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Dihlmann, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): MCNICHOLS, ERET C
• Application Number:
  US14/386,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20150041604A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,800 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/53 Movable instruments, e.g. slidable
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/00 Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0085 with adjustment by rotation in their operational position
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 57/021 Shaft support structures, e.g. partition walls, bearing eyes, casing walls or covers with bearings
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/00 Systems using the reflection or reradiation of radio waves, e.g. radar systems; Analogous systems using reflection or reradiation of waves whose nature or wavelength is irrelevant or unspecified
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9321 Velocity regulation, e.g. cruise control
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9327 Sensor installation details
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/93271 in the front of the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/02 of systems according to group G01S13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/027 Constructional details of housings, e.g. form, type, material or ruggedness
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4004 of parts of a radar system
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4026 Antenna boresight
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/403 in azimuth, i.e. in the horizontal plane
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4034 in elevation, i.e. in the vertical plane

Abstract

A sensor holder for a sensor for object detection includes: an installation unit for the sensor; a holding frame on which the installation unit is pivotably held; and an adjustment shaft mounted on the holding frame, the adjustment shaft having a guidance contour which proceeds helically around the adjustment shaft and is in engagement with a guidance element of the installation unit.

Claims

1. A sensor holder for a sensor for object detection, comprising:

an installation unit for the sensor;

a holding frame on which the installation unit is pivotably held; and

an adjustment shaft mounted on the holding frame, the adjustment shaft being aligned transversely to a pivot axis of the of the installation unit and parallel to a principal radiating direction of the sensor, the adjustment shaft having a guidance contour which proceeds helically around the adjustment shaft and is in engagement with a guidance element of the installation unit,

wherein the installation unit is held on the holding frame via pegs disposed on and aligned parallel to the pivot axis of the installation unit.

2. The sensor holder as recited in claim 1, wherein the holding frame has two coaxially disposed snap-in receptacles configured as rotary bearings that each have a hollow, cylindrical shape, are open on circumferential portions thereof, and respectively wrap around bearing portions of the adjustment shaft over a circumferential angle range of more than 180°

, so that the bearing portions adapted to an inside diameter of the snap-in receptacles are held in snap-locked fashion in the snap-in receptacles.

3. The sensor holder as recited in claim 2, wherein the circumferential portions face toward the installation unit.

4. The sensor holder as recited in claim 2, wherein an axial position of the adjustment shaft is defined by at least one circumferential projection of the adjustment shaft with respect to the holding frame.

5. The sensor holder as recited in claim 4, wherein the adjustment shaft is configured as an integral plastic part.

6. The sensor holder as recited in claim 1, wherein at least two of the pegs are shaped onto the installation unit.

7. A sensor holder for a sensor for object detection, comprising:

an installation unit for the sensor;

a holding frame on which the installation unit is pivotably held; and

an adjustment shaft mounted on the holding frame, the adjustment shaft being aligned transversely to a pivot axis of the of the installation unit and parallel to a principal radiating direction of the sensor, the adjustment shaft having a guidance contour which proceeds helically around the adjustment shaft and is in engagement with a guidance element of the installation unit,

wherein the holding frame has two coaxially disposed snap-in receptacles configured as rotary bearings that each have a hollow, cylindrical shape, are open on circumferential portions thereof, and respectively wrap around bearing portions of the adjustment shaft over a circumferential angle range of more than 180°

, so that the bearing portions adapted to an inside diameter of the snap-in receptacles are held in snap-locked fashion in the snap-in receptacles, and

wherein a center portion of the adjustment shaft encompasses the guidance contour, and said center portion is disposed between the bearing portions.

8. A sensor holder for a sensor for object detection, comprising:

an installation unit for the sensor;

a holding frame on which the installation unit is pivotably held; and

an adjustment shaft mounted on the holding frame, the adjustment shaft having a guidance contour which proceeds helically around the adjustment shaft and is in engagement with a guidance element of the installation unit,

wherein the holding frame has two coaxially disposed snap-in receptacles configured as rotary bearings that each have a hollow, cylindrical shape, are open on circumferential portions thereof, and respectively wrap around bearing portions of the adjustment shaft over a circumferential angle range of more than 180°

, so that the bearing portions adapted to an inside diameter of the snap-in receptacles are held in snap-locked fashion in the snap-in receptacles.

9. The sensor holder as recited in claim 8, wherein the installation unit is held on the holding frame via pegs disposed on a pivot axis of the installation unit.

10. The sensor holder as recited in claim 8, wherein the circumferential portions face toward the installation unit.

11. The sensor holder as recited in claim 8, wherein an axial position of the adjustment shaft is defined by at least one circumferential projection of the adjustment shaft with respect to the holding frame.

12. The sensor holder as recited in claim 11, wherein the adjustment shaft is configured as an integral plastic part.

13. A sensor holder for a sensor for object detection, comprising:

an installation unit for the sensor;

a holding frame on which the installation unit is pivotably held; and

an adjustment shaft mounted on the holding frame, the adjustment shaft having a guidance contour which proceeds helically around the adjustment shaft and is in engagement with a guidance element of the installation unit,

wherein the holding frame has two coaxially disposed snap-in receptacles configured as rotary bearings that each have a hollow, cylindrical shape, are open on circumferential portions thereof, and respectively wrap around bearing portions of the adjustment shaft over a circumferential angle range of more than 180°

, so that the bearing portions adapted to an inside diameter of the snap-in receptacles are held in snap-locked fashion in the snap-in receptacles,

wherein a center portion of the adjustment shaft encompasses the guidance contour, and said center portion is disposed between the bearing portions.