Cable connector for separable type camera head

• US 5,287,191 A
• Filed: 05/08/1992
• Issued: 02/15/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Takahisa, Tsukada, Tatsuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancuso, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ho, Tuan V.
• Application Number:
  US07/879,903
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 439/321, 439/333, 439/352, 358/209, 358/225, 358/229, 358/213.11, 358/98
• US Class Current: 348/375
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/051 Details of CCD assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/622 Screw-ring or screw-casing H01R13/623 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6683 with built-in sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/54 Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils

Abstract

A separable camera head capable of attaching and detaching a camera cable by a connector system, wherein the camera head has an external appearance of a direct fitting cable structure. Lead terminal pins of an image sensing device module including image sensing devices, driving circuits and a spatial filter are inserted into a connector of a connector module having a cable clamp, a connector, a cable and a body chassis. Thereafter, a sheath chassis and the body chassis are united by a screw and a screw thread.

Claims

1. A separable type camera head comprising:

a cable clamp and a body chassis each having a through-hole;

a female connector fixed to said cable clamp;

a cable connected to cable-connecting terminals of said female connector via said through-holes of said body chassis and said cable clamp;

an image sensing device module including;

(i) an image sensing device chip having an electrode, (ii) a metallic lead, (iii) device driving boards, said electrode being connected through said metallic lead to electrodes disposed on side surfaces of said device driving circuit boards, and (iv) lead terminals disposed on said device driving circuit board, a signal of said image sensing device chip being transmitted to said cable when said lead terminals are inserted into said female connector;

a sheath chassis encasing said image sensing device module; and

means for fastening said sheath chassis and said female connector together, said body chassis including a first screw thread formed inwardly of said body chassis and said cable clamp having a second screw thread formed in an outer periphery of said cable clamp, said body chassis and said cable clamp being fastened to one another via screwable engagement of said first and second threads to cause said body chassis to be united with said sheath chassis.