A system is provided. The system can include a lens. The lens can include a carbon nanotube layer. The carbon nanotube layer can be configured to thermally couple with a heating element.

A distance measuring device includes a measuring unit, a controlling unit, and an accessory part. The measuring unit includes an applying unit that applies a transmission wave and a detector that detects a reflected wave resulting from the transmission wave. The controlling unit is configured to perform a measurement, by using the measuring unit, a distance to an object to which the transmission wave is applied. The accessory part is attached to the measuring unit and configured to operate when energized. The controlling unit is configured to control energization of the accessory part in accordance with a state of the measurement of the distance performed by using the measuring unit.

An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes a housing, a lens unit, a heater, an imaging unit, a temperature sensor, and a heater control unit. The lens unit is attached to the housing. The heater is provided in the lens unit. The imaging unit, the temperature sensor, and the heater control unit are housed in the housing. The imaging unit outputs an optical image formed by a light flux transmitted through the lens unit as an image signal. The heater control unit controls the heater in accordance with a temperature detection value by the temperature sensor.

Systems and methods associated with an electric vehicle are provided. The electric vehicle includes a sensor system, a communications system and a snow clearing system. The systems and methods detect, based on data from the sensor system, snow that may accumulate on a window of the electric vehicle. When snow is detected, a notification is provided, via the communications system, to a remote user device. The notification requests user acceptance of use of charge of a battery of the electric vehicle to operate the snow clearing system of the electric vehicle. The systems and methods receive, by the communications system, a response to the notification from the user device, and when the response indicates acceptance of the use of charge of the battery, the snow clearing system is activated. The snow clearing system is powered by the battery.

A windshield for vehicle including: a laminated glass including: a first glass plate; and a glass plate with a terminal having a second glass plate, a conductor having a terminal joint portion, and a terminal joined onto the terminal joint portion with lead-free solder interposed therebetween, in which: in the conductor, a feeding portion including a terminal joint portion is formed directly on the second glass plate; a first light-shielding layer is formed on a first glass plate, the first light-shielding layer covering a feeding portion of a conductor; and a second light-shielding layer is formed on the glass plate with the terminal, the second light-shielding layer covering at least a part of the conductor except for the feeding portion.

A vehicular rear slider window assembly includes a fixed window panel, a movable window panel, and a frame portion fixed relative to the fixed window panel. The fixed window panel has an opening, and the movable window panel is movable along upper and lower rails of the frame portion between a closed position and an opened position. Electrically conductive traces are established at a surface of the fixed window panel, and electrically conductive traces are established at a surface of the movable window panel. Electrical power to the electrically conductive traces of the movable window panel is provided wirelessly throughout all positions of the movable window panel between and including the opened position and the closed position.

An apparatus for a panoramic roof panel configured for operative installation to a vehicle roof section of a vehicle, comprising: a panoramic roof panel thermal management module, including: a connection structure configured to connect the panoramic roof panel thermal management module proximate to the panoramic roof panel once the panoramic roof panel thermal management module is installed to the vehicle; and a roof panel heater assembly supported by the connection structure, and the roof panel heater assembly configured to provide heat to the panoramic roof panel once actuated to do just so.

Arrangements for de-icing a transparent window, in particular a vehicle windshield, with an electric heating device, are described. The de-icing a transparent window has the following steps: Step A): Measuring a window temperature before an initial application of a heating voltage; Step B): Measuring the window temperature after a beginning of a heating period; and Step C): Applying a heating voltage of more than 100 volts to a heating device over a heating period of a maximum of 2 minutes, in particular a maximum of 90 seconds, and repeating step B).

The present invention relates to a vehicle windscreen with an electrically heatable coating. The vehicle windscreen may extend over a major part of the surface area of the vehicle windscreen and may be electrically connected to at least two low-impedance bus bars lying opposite one another. The vehicle windscreen may include at least one conducting structure only covering the heating area outside a central viewing area, in order to shorten electrically the distance between the bus bars. The vehicle windscreen may be configured such that that current flows in the part of the heating area that is not covered by at least one conducting structure.

A heatable device for use with a vehicle-mounted image acquisition unit includes a main body including a first end, a second end opposite the first end, an interior cavity defined therein extending between the first and second ends, and a receiving portion disposed at the second end, the receiving portion including an opening therein providing access to the interior cavity, a transparent glass substrate fixed to the main body at the first end and including a transparent electrically-conductive coating on an inner surface thereof or the glass with contact foil stripes without a transparent electrically-conductive coating, the inner surface of the transparent glass substrate facing the first end of the main body, and at least one electrically-conductive unit disposed at least partially outside of the interior cavity defined in the main body.