Camera arm device for a mirror replacement system for a motor vehicle and motor vehicle
AssigneeContinental Automotive GmbH
InventorLukas Pape
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Abstract
A camera arm device for a mirror replacement system for a motor vehicle having a boom element, which has at least one camera (30) of the mirror replacement system is provided. A. housing, which cooperates with an end portion of the boom element in order to hold the boom element. There is arranged in the housing a guide groove through which the boom element extends and along which the boom element is movably mounted.
Claims17
1-9. (cancelled)
A camera arm device for a mirror replacement system of a motor vehicle comprising:
- a boom element, which has at least one camera of the mirror replacement system;
- a housing, which cooperates with an end portion of the boom element to hold the boom element;
- and
- a guide groove in the housing, through which the boom element extends and along which the boom element is movably mounted.
The camera arm device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the housing is hemispherical and hollow.
The camera arm device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the guide groove is a slot which extends over a housing surface perpendicularly to a direction of extension of the boom element.
The camera arm device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the guide groove has a concave curvature.
The camera arm device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a positioning device for holding the boom element in an operating position.
The camera arm device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a fall-out prevention device arranged at the end portion of the boom element having a circumference which is greater than a groove width of the guide groove.
A motor vehicle having a camera monitor system which has at least one camera secured to the motor vehicle with a camera arm device comprising:
- a boom element, which has at least one camera of the mirror replacement system;
- a housing, which cooperates with an end portion of the boom element to hold the boom element;
- and
- a guide groove in the housing, through which the boom element extends and along which the boom element is movably mounted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.