Infrared camera

• US 20060249678A1
• Filed: 01/27/2006
• Published: 11/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Guangzhou Sat Infrared Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Guangzhou Sat Infrared Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Zhang, Xiaoqing, Zhao, Feiyu, Wu, Jiping
• Application Number:
  US11/341,765
• Publication Number:
  US 20060249678A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 250/330
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 25/72 Investigating presence of flaws
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/531 being rotatable or detachable
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/33 Transforming infrared radiation cameras or camera modules for generating image signals from infrared radiation H04N23/20; circuitry of SSIS for transforming infrared radiation into image signals H04N25/20

Abstract

The present invention relates to a camera which can measure the temperature distribution of a given target surface. The camera is able to measure the temperature distribution of a target and display it on a LCD display. Accordingly, the infrared camera (20) has a main body (1), a LCD screen (3), a keypad (16) for controlling the infrared camera, and a handle (4); the LCD screen (3) is connected to said main body (1) of said infrared camera (20) by means of a wire (9).

Claims

1. An infrared camera comprising:

a main body, a LCD screen, a keypad for controlling the infrared camera, and a handle characterized in that the LCD screen is connected to said main body of said infrared camera by means of a wire.

2. An infrared camera according to claim 1, characterized in that said keypad is located on a handset connected to said LCD screen.

3. An infrared camera according to claim 2, characterized in that said LCD screen is hinged to said handset by means of a hinge.

4. An infrared camera according to claim 1, characterized in that a socket is arranged at the far end of said wire opposite to said LCD screen, so that said wire can be plugged to said main body of said infrared camera.

5. An infrared camera according to claim 2, characterized in that said handset has a chute located at its bottom and in that said handle is located on top of said main body, and shows a slideway matching the form of said chute, so that said handset can slide along said handle.

6. An infrared camera according to claim 5, characterized in that said slideway comprises a fixing pin in order to prevent said handset from sliding away inadvertently from said handle.

7. An infrared camera according to claim 1, characterized in that said wire has a spiral form.