Video-camera device for a motor vehicle and assembly method

A method for assembling a video-camera device, said method being characterized in that it includes the steps of:

• providing a motherboard that is rectangular on the whole, including a rigid main segment and a secondary segment that is partially surrounded by a void, and having a rectilinear border defining a junction between the main segment and the secondary segment, the rectilinear border defining a pivot axis of the secondary segment so that the secondary segment is inclinable relatively to the surface of the main segment about the pivot axis;
• producing a connecting segment on the secondary segment, intended for connection of a daughterboard;
• producing the secondary segment comprises an intermediate segment and a connecting segment;
• wherein the intermediate segment extending between the rectilinear border and the connecting segment;
• the intermediate segment having a reduced thickness with respect to the thickness of the main segment;
• providing a daughterboard comprising a video-camera module the optical axis of which is perpendicular to the main plane of the daughterboard;
• providing a housing assembly including an upper cover and a lower housing;
• fastening the video-camera module to the upper cover;
• assembling the motherboard and the daughterboard by connecting the daughterboard orthogonally to the connecting segment;
• assembling the lower housing with the upper cover so as to close the housing assembly;
• fastening flat the motherboard to the bottom wall of the lower housing, the optical axis of the video-camera module being inclined by an angle α relatively to the surface of the main segment of the motherboard.