US 2003/0169511 A1Published application

Shield assembly for a built-in lens set

AssigneeBenq Corporation

InventorsChia-Yu Liu, Chang-Chien Li

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Abstract

A shield assembly for a built-in lens set is introduced to a lens set built in a housing, in which the lens set has an optical head and the housing provides an aperture with respective to the optical head. A protrusive enclosure surrounding the aperture protrudes toward the optical head and is spaced from the optical head by a variable slim spacing. The shield assembly includes a shield ring for sleeving both the optical head and the protrusive enclosure and an elastic connecting unit for bridging the shield ring and the housing. By providing the shield ring to enclose always the spacing and the elastic connecting unit to engage elastically the lens set with the housing, the lens set can be prevented from dust-contaminating through the aperture, aged axial offsetting problem, and poor focus-adjusting performance caused by backlash existing in a driving mechanism.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A shield assembly for a built-in lens set, located in a housing with the lens set consisting of an optical head with an outer rim, the housing having an aperture corresponding to the optical head and an inner rim extending to form a protrusive enclosure of the aperture, the shield assembly comprising:

a shield ring, formed in an annular ring surrounding outer peripheral areas of the optical head and the protrusive enclosure, further including a connecting end, a movable end corresponding to the connecting end, and an outer rim connecting the movable end and the connecting end, the connecting end being fixedly coupled with the optical head, the movable end being movably coupled with the protrusive enclosure;
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an elastic connecting unit for providing extensible connecting function between the shield ring and the housing, further including a first end and a second end, the first end being fixedly mounted to the outer rim of the shield ring, the second end being fixedly mounted to the inner rim of the housing.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.