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Title:
PHOTOSENSOR DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2005233728
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a photosensor device capable of miniaturizing its conformation, while being equipped with a rain sensor and an illuminance sensor inside the same casing.

This photosensor device 100, equipped with the rain sensor and the illuminance sensor in the same casing, has a constitution wherein a light-receiving element 21 is used in common for the rain sensor and the illuminance sensor, and a light-emitting pattern of a light-emitting element 11 constituting the rain sensor is controlled by a control part 30; and the output of the light-receiving element 21 is switched to the rain sensor output or to the illuminance sensor output according to the light emitting pattern. Since the light-receiving element 21 is used in common, in this way, the conformation of the photosensor device 100 can be miniaturized.


Inventors:
YUGAWA YOHEI
Application Number:
JP2004041905A
Publication Date:
September 02, 2005
Filing Date:
February 18, 2004
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
DENSO CORP
International Classes:
G01N21/17; B60Q1/08; B60Q1/14; B60S1/08; G01J1/02; G01J1/10; G01J1/42; G01W1/14; G05B11/00; H01L27/00; H01L31/101; (IPC1-7): G01N21/17; B60S1/08; G01J1/42; G01W1/14
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kazuyuki Yahagi