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US 11,447,078 B2Granted
Liftgate with integrated rearview visibility
AssigneeMaxon Industries, Inc.
InventorMichael Carmenaty
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Abstract
A disclosed system includes a liftgate housing; a tab of the liftgate housing moveable to an acute angle relative to a first portion of the liftgate housing; a tab aperture disposed in the tab; a first wall and a second wall attached to the liftgate housing, where the first wall, the second wall, and the tab form a barrier to prevent debris from entering into the housing; a camera, where at least a portion of the camera is disposed through the tab aperture, and where movement of the tab relative to the first portion of the liftgate housing adjusts the field of view of the camera.
Claims16
A system comprising:
- a liftgate housing;
- a camera mount disposed in the liftgate housing for receiving at least a portion of a camera, wherein the camera mount comprises a bendable tab, and wherein the bendable tab is adjustable from parallel to a first portion of the liftgate housing to an acute angle relative to the first portion of the liftgate housing;
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- a camera mount aperture disposed in the camera mount, wherein the camera mount is configured to align the camera with the camera mount aperture.
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A system, comprising:
- a bendable tab, wherein the bendable tab is adjustable from a first position to a second position, wherein the bendable tab is parallel to a first portion of a liftgate housing in the first position, and wherein the bendable tab is at an acute angle relative to the first portion of the liftgate housing in the second position;
- a first wall attached to the first portion of the liftgate housing;
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- a second wall attached to the first portion of the liftgate housing;
- wherein the first wall and the second wall are disposed proximate the bendable tab to form a barrier to prevent debris from entering into the liftgate housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.