Decoupling element for an ultrasonic sensor

US12411220B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Oliver Eidel · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
• Stefan Triebl · Mühlacker, DE
• Paul Bou-Saleh · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
• Nicolas Bellaize · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
• Fabian Haag · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 2022
• Grant date: Sep 9, 2025
• Expiry date: Sep 5, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S2015/938
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A decoupling element for an ultrasonic sensor is disclosed. The ultrasonic sensor is able to be attached to a flat component for a vehicle. The flat component includes a cutout. The ultrasonic sensor includes a cylindrical ultrasonic transceiver element which is able to be introduced into the cutout. The decoupling element includes a hollow-cylindrical element for enclosing the cylindrical ultrasonic transceiver element of the ultrasonic sensor and a plurality of support ribs which are arranged in the radial direction outside the hollow-cylindrical element and are spaced apart from one another in a circumferential direction of the hollow-cylindrical element for supporting the decoupling element on a region of the flat component outside the cutout when the cylindrical ultrasonic transceiver element with the hollow-cylindrical element enclosing it is introduced by an end portion at an axial end into the cutout.