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US 11,082,590 B2Granted
Camera device, rear view device and motor vehicle
AssigneeSMR Patents S.à.r.l.
InventorRomeo Wieczorek
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Abstract
A camera device includes a housing, in which at least one camera module is at least partially arranged and which carries at least one light window in the beam path of the camera module, at least one air chamber being arranged between the light window and the camera module in the housing, and the housing having an electroconductive plastic that heats the light window and/or the air chamber when current is applied thereto.
Claims18
A camera device, comprising:
- a housing in which at least one camera module is at least partially arranged and which carries at least one light window in the beam path of the camera module;
- and
- a protective glass integrally formed with the housing,
- at least one air chamber arranged between the light window and the camera module in the housing, wherein
- the housing comprises an electroconductive plastic that heats at least one of the light window or the air chamber when current is applied thereto, the air chamber being provided so that it conically tapers away from the housing from the light window outwards, in at least one cutting plane,
- the housing is manufactured from a plastic having an electroconductive supplementary material, and the filling degree of the supplementary material in at least one first partial region is greater than in at least one second partial region,
- the supplementary material including at least one of graphite or carbon fibers, and
- the housing itself, at a region of the housing between the protective glass of the camera device and the camera module, is a heating element so that an additional heating foil or heating element is not utilized within the housing.
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A camera device, comprising:
- a housing in which at least one camera module is at least partially arranged and which carries at least one light window in the beam path of the camera module;
- and
- at least one air chamber arranged between the light window and the camera module in the housing, wherein
- the housing comprises an electroconductive plastic that heats at least one of the light window or the air chamber when current is applied thereto, the air chamber being provided so that it conically tapers away from the housing from the light window outwards, in at least one cutting plane,
- the housing is manufactured from a plastic having an electroconductive supplementary material, and the filling degree of the supplementary material in at least one first partial region is greater than in at least one second partial region,
- supplementary material including at least one of graphite or carbon fibers,
- wherein at least one of a connecting region, an adhesive region, or a seal between the housing and the light window or the protective glass is arranged in the second partial region, and
- wherein at least one of
- the protective glass is detachably connected to at least one of the housing or the seal by means of a snap-in or latching connection, or
- the housing provides one or more of at least one undercut or at least one clip element for holding the protective glass.
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A camera device, comprising:
- a housing in which at least one camera module is at least partially arranged and which carries at least one light window in the beam path of the camera module;
- and
- at least one air chamber arranged between the light window and the camera module in the housing, wherein
- the housing comprises an electroconductive plastic that heats at least one of the light window or the air chamber when current is applied thereto, the air chamber being provided so that it conically tapers away from the housing from the light window outwards, in at least one cutting plane,
- the housing is manufactured from a plastic having an electroconductive supplementary material, and the filling degree of the supplementary material in at least one first partial region is greater than in at least one second partial region, and
- the supplementary material including at least one of graphite or carbon fibers,
- a power supply is provided in order to apply electrical current to the electroconductive plastic by applying electrical current to the first partial region of the housing, and
- the power supply is designed to provide a pulse-width modulated current, or a control apparatus is connected to the power supply for a pulse-width modulated control.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.