Sensor bracket

• US 10,081,310 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2017
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Kasai, Keita, Tokiwa, Mitsuru, Matori, Tadahiro, Ohmoto, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Laballe, Clayton E
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith, Linda B
• Application Number:
  US15/467,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20170274834A1
• Time in Patent Office: 551 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/04 Mounting of cameras operative during drive; Arrangement of controls thereof relative to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0026 Windows, e.g. windscreen
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0043 for integrated articles, i.e. not substantially protruding from the surrounding parts
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 11/045 Lens hoods or shields
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/561 Support related camera accessories

Abstract

A sensor bracket includes a bracket on which a camera (a sensor) that detects a state around a vehicle is mounted, a flat spring that abuts against the camera in a direction that maintains a mounted state of the camera when the camera is mounted on the bracket, and a stopper restricting, in between a space where a tool is positioned and an inner surface of a piece of glass, a displacement range of the tool from the space to the inner surface of the piece of glass when the flat spring is dismounted from a projection for the spring of the bracket with the tool.

Claims

1. A sensor bracket comprising:

a bracket body attached to an inner surface of a glass shield of a vehicle;

a sensor mounted on the bracket body and configured to detect a state around the vehicle;

a spring member provided in the bracket body, the spring member abutting against the sensor in a manner that biases the sensor in a direction that maintains a mounted state and position of the sensor with respect to the bracket body, the spring member being detachable from the bracket body with a tool by pushing a part of the spring member toward the inner surface of the glass shield; and

a tool-displacement restriction portion provided in the bracket body at a position between said part of the spring member at which the tool is to be positioned and the inner surface of the glass shield such that the tool-displacement restriction portion provides a restricted tool-displacement space from said part of the spring member, which allows the tool to move toward the inner surface of the glass shield to dismount the spring member from the bracket body, but prevents the tool from contacting the glass shield.

2. The sensor bracket according to claim 1,

wherein the tool-displacement restriction portion has a wall portion configured to guide the tool having a rod shape such that the wall portion can restrict an angle of the tool to substantially be orthogonal to the inner surface of the glass shield when with the tool is pushing the spring member.

3. The sensor bracket according to claim 1,

wherein the bracket body has a spring mount portion to which the spring member is detachably attached, and

wherein the spring mount portion is a projection projecting outwards from a lateral side of the bracket body, and the spring member is attached to the projection.