CLEANING DEVICE, AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS INCLUDING CLEANING DEVICE

CLEANING DEVICE, AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS INCLUDING CLEANING DEVICE

A cleaning device includes a casing holding an image capturing device, a protective cover disposed in a visual field of the image capturing device, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a controller to control the vibrator, a monitor to detect an electrical characteristic value associated with...

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Hauptverfasser: HORIGUCHI, Chikahiro, MIZUSHIMA, Yuzo, ISHII, Yuuki, FUJIMOTO, Katsumi, KURATANI, Yasuhiro, NISHIYAMA, Kenji, TAKATA, Masaaki, ICHIGUCHI, Shinichiro
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
CLEANING
CLEANING IN GENERAL
OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
OPTICS
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PHYSICS
PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:A cleaning device includes a casing holding an image capturing device, a protective cover disposed in a visual field of the image capturing device, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a controller to control the vibrator, a monitor to detect an electrical characteristic value associated with a vibration of the vibrator, and a storage to store determination criteria based on which the controller evaluates the electrical characteristic value detected by the monitor. The controller is configured to evaluate the electrical characteristic value based on the plurality of determination criteria stored in the storage and clean a surface of the translucent body by controlling the vibrator according to the determination.