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US 10,474,010 B2Granted
Camera module
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsYasuki Furutake, Takeshi Kazama
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Abstract
A camera module, which is mounted on an inside of a front windshield of a vehicle and to image an external environment of the vehicle, includes a lens unit and an imager to image the external environment by forming an optical image, which is from the external environment through the lens unit.
Claims20
A camera module configured to be mounted to an inside of a windshield of a vehicle and to image an external environment of the vehicle, the camera module comprising:
- a lens unit through which an optical image from the external environment enters;
- an imager to image the external environment by forming the optical image thereon through the lens unit;
- and
- a bracket to restrict incidence of light on the lens unit from the external environment, wherein
- the bracket includes:
- a base wall portion to be located to face the windshield across from the external environment;
- and
- a pair of side wall portions raised from both vehicle width direction sides of the base wall portion, and
- under a definition that an imaginary plane imaginarily extends along a horizontal direction and goes through at least a part of a front end surface of the lens unit, the side wall portions are formed at a height to pass under edges of a field of lens angle of view of the lens unit on the imaginary plane.
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A camera module configured to be mounted to an inside of a windshield of a vehicle, the camera module comprising:
- a wide angle lens located at a position enabling to capture an image of an outside of the vehicle from an inside of the windshield;
- and
- a bracket to restrict light, which is from a vehicle interior of the vehicle is reflected on an inside of the windshield, from entering the wide angle lens, wherein
- the bracket includes two side wall portions raised toward the windshield in a state where being mounted to the inside of the windshield, and
- a height of the side wall portions in the vertical direction is a height not to block edges of a field of an angle of view of the wide angle lens on an imaginary plane, the imaginary plane imaginarily extending along a horizontal direction and goes through at least a part of a front end surface of the wide angle lens.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.