A vehicle is disclosed that uses data from different types of on-board sensors to determine whether meteorological precipitation is failing near the vehicle. The vehicle may include an on-board camera capturing image data and an on-board accelerometer capturing accelerometer data. The image data may characterize an area in front of or behind the vehicle. The accelerometer data may characterize vibrations of a windshield of the vehicle. An artificial neural network may run on computer hardware carried on-board the vehicle. The artificial neural network may be trained to classify meteorological precipitation in an environment of the vehicle using the image data and the accelerometer data as inputs. The classifications of the artificial neural network may be used to control one or more functions of the vehicle such as windshield-wiper speed, traction-control settings, or the like.

Automatic wiper control prohibiting means prohibits execution of automatic wiper control when vehicle stop detecting means detects that a vehicle is stopping and a masking object detecting part determines that a masking object is adhered to an outer surface of a window part. When the vehicle stop detecting means detects that the vehicle is stopping and a state of the masking object detecting part is changed from a state where the masking object detecting part detects that the masking object is adhered to the outer surface of the window part to a state where the masking object detecting part detects that the masking object is not adhered to the outer surface of the window part at a changing time, the automatic wiper control prohibiting means prohibits the execution of said automatic wiper control for a predetermined period of time from the changing time.

The wiper blade-lifting system comprises a wiper arm with a motorized mechanism to cause the wiper blade to bend at a hinge point responsive to the presence of electrical power. The wiper blade-lifting system is useful to lift a wiper blade off the surface of a windshield when ice or freezing rain is anticipated, so that the wiper blade does not become frozen in place against the surface of the windshield. A second activation of the wiper blade-lifting system using electrical power of the opposite polarity causes the wiper blade to straighten and place the wiper blade back in contact with the windshield. The application of electrical power to the wiper blade-lifting system may be under control of an interior lift control or, in some embodiments, a blade lift remote control.

The wiper blade-lifting system comprises a wiper arm with a motorized mechanism to cause the wiper blade to bend at a hinge point responsive to the presence of electrical power. The wiper blade-lifting system is useful to lift a wiper blade off the surface of a windshield when ice or freezing rain is anticipated, so that the wiper blade does not become frozen in place against the surface of the windshield. A second activation of the wiper blade-lifting system using electrical power of the opposite polarity causes the wiper blade to straighten and place the wiper blade back in contact with the windshield. The application of electrical power to the wiper blade-lifting system may be under control of an interior lift control or, in some embodiments, a blade lift remote control.

A method is provided for controlling a wiping-washing process of a rear window cleaning system for a motor vehicle that has at least one windshield cleaning system and a headlight cleaning system for headlights of the motor vehicle. The wiping-washing process of the rear window cleaning system is controlled on the basis of an actuation of the headlight cleaning system and/or the windscreen cleaning system.

A vehicle having a windshield, a wiper and a vehicle camera is disclosed. The wiper may be configured to clean the windshield and the vehicle camera may be configured to capture a windshield image and a ground image. The vehicle may further include a processor that may obtain the windshield image and the ground image from the vehicle camera at a predefined sampling frequency. The processor may determine that the windshield and ground may be wet based on the windshield image and the ground image. The processor may actuate the wiper at a predefined speed based on a determination that both the windshield and the ground may be wet.

The invention relates to a contact retention device for an integrated circuit including a common substrate having a hole extending through the common substrate. The contact retention device includes a support part suitable for being fixed to the common substrate and including an orifice suitable for being aligned with the hole, and a retention piece fixed to the support piece and centered by the orifice. The retention part includes an upper part suitable for guiding an insertion of an electrical conductor into the orifice, a lower part suitable for forming an elastic contact between the inserted electrical conductor and the retention part, and a middle part arranged between the upper part and the lower part. The middle part and the lower part are suitable for being inserted into the hole.

The invention relates to a contact retention device for an integrated circuit including a common substrate having a hole extending through the common substrate. The contact retention device includes a support part suitable for being fixed to the common substrate and including an orifice suitable for being aligned with the hole, and a retention piece fixed to the support piece and centered by the orifice. The retention part includes an upper part suitable for guiding an insertion of an electrical conductor into the orifice, a lower part suitable for forming an elastic contact between the inserted electrical conductor and the retention part, and a middle part arranged between the upper part and the lower part. The middle part and the lower part are suitable for being inserted into the hole.

A cleaning device for cleaning a transparent element of an optical or optoelectronic device with a fluid cleaning agent, includes a housing in which the device is arranged. The housing is equipped with an annular channel which can be filled with the cleaning agent via a cleaning agent inlet and encloses at least some areas of the transparent element, and at least one nozzle which is designed to deflect the cleaning agent onto the transparent element and is supplied from the annular channel. The cleaning device allows an increase of uptime and ensured functionality of the optical or optoelectronic device in all weather conditions and operating conditions or to maintain a high degree of uptime and ensured functionality at all times. At least one electrically conductive heating element is provided for heating the annular channel and/or the area of housing directly adjoining the annular channel or the cleaning agent inlet.

An optical sensor device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged on an arrangement surface to be apart from each other in an x direction perpendicular to a z direction that is a direction connecting an area corresponding to the plurality of light-emitting elements and an area corresponding to a light-receiving element. A light-guide lens portion includes a plurality of incident portions respectively corresponding to the plurality of light-emitting elements and respectively receiving light from the plurality of light-emitting elements. The plurality of incident portions is provided with an equalizing portion configured to equalize intensity of the light incident on the light-guide lens portion along the x direction by reducing the intensity of the light along the z direction out of the light that is emitted from the light-emitting element, while allowing an incident of part of the light emitted from the light-emitting element adjacent to the corresponding light-emitting element.