Casing for a camera assembly and camera assembly
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorsAdam Kaluzinski, Mateusz Augustyn, Janusz Duralek, Przemyslaw Antos, Arkadiusz Kowalewski, Lukasz Dlugolecki
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a casing for a camera assembly, the casing configured for a sealed arrangement at a transparent surface. Further, the present disclosure relates to a camera assembly comprising said casing and a camera.
Claims12
A casing for a camera assembly, the casing configured for a sealed arrangement at a transparent surface, the casing comprising a camera housing and a gasket holder, wherein the gasket holder is slidably arranged on the camera housing and comprises an opaque funnel for defining a field of view for a camera, whereby the funnel continuously extends between an inner opening at an inner end of the funnel and an outer opening at an outer end of the funnel,
- wherein the camera housing comprises arrangement means for arranging the camera at and/or in the inner opening,
- wherein the gasket holder comprises an annular sealing member surrounding the outer opening for sealingly contacting the transparent surface,
- wherein the casing comprises spring means arranged between the camera housing and the gasket holder for exerting a compression force onto the gasket holder towards the outer end of the funnel,
- wherein the gasket holder comprises one or more sliding legs and the camera housing comprises guiding means constructed for linearly guiding the one or more sliding legs, and
- wherein each of the one or more sliding legs ends in a hook and the respective one or more hooks form-fittingly contact the camera housing for defining a position of the gasket holder maximally distanced to the camera housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.