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US 2015/0085182 A1Published application
Moving camera with off-axis slip ring assembly
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorTheodore L. Jones
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Abstract
A camera unit includes a housing, a pan stage disposed inside the housing and rotatable relative to the housing about a pan axis, a camera lens assembly coupled to the pan stage, and a slip ring assembly having a slip ring stator fixedly coupled to the pan stage at a location offset from the pan axis.
Claims20
A camera unit comprising:
- a housing;
- a pan stage disposed inside the housing and rotatable relative to the housing about a pan axis;
- a camera lens assembly coupled to the pan stage;
- and
- a slip ring assembly having a slip ring stator fixedly coupled to the pan stage at a location offset from the pan axis.
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A camera unit comprising:
- a housing having a window portion;
- a pan stage disposed inside the housing and rotatable relative to the housing about a pan axis, the pan axis extending through the window portion;
- a camera lens assembly coupled to the pan stage and disposed between the pan stage and the window portion;
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- a slip ring assembly coupled to the camera lens assembly, the slip ring assembly having a slip ring stator fixedly coupled to the pan stage at a location offset from the pan axis, a slip ring rotor coupled to the slip ring stator, a carrier element coupled to the slip ring rotor, and a track coupled to the carrier element and pivotally coupled to the housing, the carrier element slidably disposed along the track.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.