Camera device

• US 20050219371A1
• Filed: 03/21/2005
• Published: 10/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Iwama, Takaaki
• Application Number:
  US11/084,028
• Publication Number:
  US 20050219371A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.990
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/65 Control of camera operation in relation to power supply

Abstract

A camera device including a camera case, a camera body that is supplied with power from an external power source and air-tightly accommodated in the camera case, a primary coil unit that is disposed at the outside of the camera case and connected to the external power source, and a second coil unit that is accommodated in the camera case and electromagnetically coupled to the primary coil unit to supply power from the external power source to the camera body.

Claims

1. A camera device comprising:

a camera case;

a camera body that is supplied with power from an external power source and air-tightly accommodated in the camera case;

a primary coil unit that is disposed at the outside of the camera case and connected to the external power source; and

a second coil unit that is accommodated in the camera case and electromagnetically coupled to the primary coil unit to supply power from the external power source to the camera body.

2. The camera device according to claim 1, wherein the camera case has a fit-in portion in which the primary coil unit is fitted, and the secondary coil unit is disposed so as to face the primary coil unit under the state that the primary coil unit is fitted in the camera case.

3. The camera device according to claim 1, further comprising a coil case in which the primary coil unit is accommodated, and the coil case is secured to the camera case in accordance with a draw-out direction of a cable drawn out from the side surface of the coil case to the outside so that the primary coil unit and the secondary coil unit are rotated while kept to face each other.

4. The camera device according to claim 1, wherein a filling material is filled in the camera case to absorb vibration of at least the secondary coil unit.

5. The camera device according to claim 1, further comprising a video signal transmitter for wirelessly transmitting a video signal to an external video signal receiver, wherein the video signal transmitter is accommodated in the camera case.

6. The camera device according to claim 5, wherein the video signal transmitter outputs a video signal to the secondary coil unit, and the video signal receiver receives a video signal through the primary coil unit.

7. The camera device according to claim 6, further comprising a switching circuit that transmits power and is disposed the between the primary coil unit and the external power source, wherein the external power source is a DC power source and the switching circuit carries out a switching operation in synchronism with a horizontal synchronous signal of the video signal.

8. The camera device according to claim 5, further comprising a controller that controls the camera body on the basis of a control signal and is accommodated in the camera case, wherein the controller receives a control signal output to the primary coil unit through the secondary coil unit.

9. The cameral device according to claim 5, wherein optical communications are carried out between the video signal transmitter and the video signal receiver.