US 7,841,782 B2Granted

Dome type camera with independently rotatable and lockable cover

AssigneePanasonic Corporation

InventorToshikazu Tatewaki

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Abstract

A dome type camera (1) comprises a camera (2), a lower case (3) having a first serration (9), an upper case (4), a dome cover (6), and an inner cover (7) having a second serration (20), where the upper case (4) can be attached to the lower case (3) at two steps of attachment positions which are an adjustment position and a locking position. When the attachment position of the upper case (4) is set at the adjustment position, the first serration (9) and the second serration (20) are incompletely engaged with each other, allowing the inner cover (7) to be rotatable with respect to the lower case (3), and when the attachment position of the upper case (4) is set at the locking position, the first serration (9) and the second serration (20) are completely engaged with each other, allowing the inner cover (7) to be fixed to the lower case (3). The orientation of the cover can be easily adjusted after the cover has been attached, and the work efficiency is improved in installation and adjustment works.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A dome type camera comprising:

a camera for shooting in a shooting direction;
a lower case to be attached with the camera;
an upper case to be attached to the lower case;
and a cover to be held between the upper case and the lower case for covering the camera,
wherein the cover can be rotated independently from the camera,
wherein the lower case has a first engaging portion;
wherein the cover has a second engaging portion for engaging with the first engaging portion, and has a window for maintaining a shooting field of view of the camera;
wherein the upper case can be attached to the lower case at two steps of attachment positions which are an adjustment position and a locking position;
wherein when the attachment position of the upper case is at the adjustment position, the first engaging portion of the lower case and the second engaging portion of the cover are partially engaged with each other, allowing the cover to be rotatable with respect to the lower case;
and
wherein when the attachment position of the upper case is at the locking position, the first engaging portion of the lower case and the second engaging portion of the cover are completely engaged with each other, allowing the cover to be fixed to the lower case.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/064,262Filed 3 Oct 2006
Priority: JP 2005-29987814 Oct 2005
Published: US 2009/0162048 A125 Jun 2009
Granted: 30 Nov 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04N 23/50
Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof: constructional details
G03B 17/02
Details of cameras or camera bodies; Accessories therefor: bodies
G08B 13/19619
Surveillance camera constructional details: details of casing
G08B 13/19628
Optical details, e.g. lenses, mirrors or multiple lenses: of wide angled cameras and camera groups, e.g. omni-directional cameras, fish eye,…