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US 11,794,664 B2Granted
Underbody camera
AssigneeClarion Corporation of America
InventorsRichard Kim, Sundara Gopalakrishnan, Peter Burke, Ajinkya Patil
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Abstract
An underbody camera located beneath and within a wheel base of a vehicle includes a mounting bracket coupled to the vehicle, a camera housing, and a camera. The camera housing is coupled to the mounting bracket and defines an interior camera compartment. The camera is coupled to the camera housing and is arranged to lie within the interior camera compartment.
Claims20
An underbody camera adapted to be mounted to a vehicle to capture image data beneath the vehicle and around wheels of the vehicle, the underbody camera comprising
- a mounting bracket coupled to the vehicle,
- a camera housing coupled to the mounting bracket and formed to include an interior camera compartment, the camera housing including an outer camera shell, a camera mount having an inner camera shell arranged to at least partially extend through a rear opening of the outer camera shell and an attachment plate configured to engage the outer camera shell and cover the rear opening, and a protective lens arranged to lie between a portion of the outer camera shell and the camera mount and to cover a front opening of the outer camera shell opposite the rear opening, and
- a camera coupled to the camera mount and arranged to lie within the interior camera compartment between the protective lens and attachment plate of the camera mount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.