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US 11,230,233 B2Granted
Camera mounting structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasato Takenouchi, Naoya Higashimachi, Yutaka Tokunaga
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Abstract
A camera mounting structure includes: a bracket that is attached to a vehicle upper side of an inner surface of a front windshield glass; a camera that is supported by the bracket and detects information about the surroundings of a vehicle; and an angle-of-view hood member that has a fastening portion fastened to the bracket and a catch portion caught on the bracket and is disposed on a vehicle front lower side of a lens of the camera.
Claims11
A camera mounting structure, comprising:
- a bracket that is attached to a vehicle upper side of an inner surface of a front windshield glass;
- a camera that is supported by the bracket and detects information about the surroundings of a vehicle;
- and
- an angle-of-view hood member that has a fastening portion fastened to the bracket and a catch portion caught on the bracket, and that is disposed on a vehicle front lower side of a lens of the camera,
- wherein the camera is attached to the bracket independently from the hood member, and
- wherein the fastening portion of the hood member and the bracket have aligned holes, and are fastened to each other by fasteners extending through the aligned holes.
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A camera mounting structure, comprising:
- a bracket that is attached to a vehicle upper side of an inner surface of a front windshield glass;
- a camera that is supported by the bracket and detects information about the surroundings of a vehicle;
- and
- an angle-of-view hood member that has a fastening portion fastened to the bracket and a catch portion caught on the bracket, and that is disposed on a vehicle front lower side of a lens of the camera,
- wherein
- the fastening portion is formed on a rear portion of the angle-of-view hood member,
- the catch portion is formed on a front portion of the angle-of-view hood member,
- the catch portion is configured by plural claw portions spaced an interval apart from each other in the vehicle width direction, and
- the claw portions are three in number and are configured so that the bracket is sandwiched and held from above and below by a claw portion in a middle of the bracket and by claw portions at both ends of the bracket.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.