Vehicle-mounted-camera bracket

• US 10,183,633 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2015
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Mizota, Shinichi, Ooba, Yukihiro, Fukasawa, Ryo, Wang, Jinsheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Hsu, Amy R
• Application Number:
  US15/518,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20170291556A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/02 for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/04 Mounting of cameras operative during drive; Arrangement of controls thereof relative to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/483 with obstacle sensors of electric or electronic type
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0045 with visible part, e.g. flush mounted
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/802 for monitoring and displaying vehicle exterior blind spot views
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/07 by means of multiple interengaging protrusions on the surfaces, e.g. hooks, coils,
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 11/30 Supports specially adapted for an instrument; Supports specially adapted for a set of instruments

Abstract

Provided is a vehicle-mounted-camera bracket (10) for attaching a vehicle-mounted camera (20) to a vehicle body (30), wherein the durability of a hook (103) is enhanced and the vehicle-mounted-camera bracket (10) is capable of inserting into an attachment hole (31) of the vehicle body (30) along a narrow insertion trajectory. The present invention has: a bracket main body (100) capable of fastening a vehicle-mounted camera (20); and three or more planar hooks (103) for fixing the vehicle-mounted camera (20) to the vehicle body (30), the hooks (103) being formed in the bracket main body (100); the three or more planar hooks (103) being arranged so as to be suspended on at least two facing inside edges of a substantially rectangular attachment hole (31) provided in the vehicle body (30) when the hooks (103) are attached to the vehicle body (30).

Claims

1. An in-vehicle camera bracket for attaching an in-vehicle camera to a vehicle body, the in-vehicle camera bracket comprising:

a bracket main body capable of fastening the in-vehicle camera; and

three or more hooks formed in the bracket main body, and configured to fix the in-vehicle camera to the vehicle body, wherein

the three or more hooks are disposed such that the three or more hooks are caught by at least two opposite internal edge sides of a nearly rectangular attaching hole provided in the vehicle body when attached to the vehicle body, and

when the three or more hooks are attached to the vehicle body, a part of at least one of the three or more hooks contacts with each of four internal edge sides of the nearly rectangular attaching hole.

2. The in-vehicle camera bracket according to claim 1, further comprising a cushion for preventing entrance of water at a position between the vehicle body and the bracket main body.

3. The in-vehicle camera bracket according to claim 1, wherein:

a number of the hooks is three; and

the three hooks are disposed such that the three hooks are caught by respective internal edge sides of the attaching hole different from one another when attached to the vehicle body.

4. The in-vehicle camera bracket according to claim 1, wherein:

a number of the hooks is three; and

two of the hooks are caught by a first internal edge side of the attaching hole, and the remaining hook is caught by a second internal edge side opposite to the first internal edge side of the attaching hole when attached to the vehicle body.

5. The in-vehicle camera bracket according to claim 1, wherein:

a number of the hooks is four; and

the four hooks are caught by respective internal edge sides of the attaching hole different from one another when attached to the vehicle body.

6. The in-vehicle camera bracket according to claim 1, wherein:

a number of the hooks is four; and

two of the hooks are caught by a first internal edge side of the attaching hole, and the remaining two hooks are caught by a second internal edge side opposite to the first internal edge side of the attaching hole when attached to the vehicle body.

7. The in-vehicle camera bracket according to claim 1, wherein:

a number of the hooks is five; and

two of the hooks are caught by a first internal edge side of the attaching hole, other two of the hooks are caught by a second internal edge side opposite to the first internal edge side of the attaching hole, and the remaining hook is caught by a third internal edge side of the attaching hole when attached to the vehicle body.

8. The in-vehicle camera bracket according to claim 1, wherein:

a number of the hooks is six; and

two of the hooks are caught by a first internal edge side of the attaching hole, other two hooks are caught by a second internal edge side opposite to the first internal edge side of the attaching hole, another hook is caught by a third internal edge side of the attaching hole, and the remaining hook is caught by a fourth internal edge side opposite to the third internal edge side of the attaching hole when attached to the vehicle body.