Monitor camera

• US 7,549,808 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2005
• Issued: 06/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: I-Pro Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakigawara, Masayuki, Satou, Izumi, Takahashi, Masami, Wada, Jyouji, Tatewaki, Toshikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Koval; Melissa J
• Application Number:
  US10/597,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20080253760A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,597 Days
• Field of Search: 396/248, 396/427, 396/463, 396/465, 396/466, 396/484, 396/489, 261/26, 348/151, 348/373
• US Class Current: 396/427
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2257/80 Water
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/26 Drying gases or vapours
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/52 Elements optimising image sensor operation, e.g. for electromagnetic interference [EMI] protection or temperature control by heat transfer or cooling elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

A monitor camera device (10) has a camera housing (12) and a dehumidification regulation body (14). The dehumidification regulation body (14) has a dehumidification element (42), an electrode, and an engaging portion engaging with an engaged portion of the camera housing (12). One end side of the electrode is constructed so as to supply a power source to the dehumidification element (42), and the other end side penetrates through the engaging portion of the dehumidification regulation body (14). The dehumidification regulation body (14) is detachably attached to the camera housing (12) by the engaging portion of the dehumidification regulation body (14) and the engaged portion of the camera housing (12). The monitor camera device can be downsized while providing a dehumidification regulating function.

Claims

1. A monitor camera device comprising:

a camera housing having an engaged portion comprising a through hole through the camera housing, and

a dehumidification regulation body having a dehumidification element, an electrode, and an engaging portion, mounted within the through hole, that engages the engaged portion of the camera housing, the dehumidification regulation body being configured so that one end of the electrode supplies a power source to the dehumidification element and the other end of the electrode penetrates through the engaging portion of the dehumidification regulation body, the dehumidification regulation body being detachably attached to the camera housing by the engaging portion of the dehumidification regulation body and the engaged portion of the camera housing.

2. The monitor camera device according to claim 1, wherein the engaging portion is a screw member provided with a male thread on an outer periphery thereof.

3. The monitor camera device according to claim 2, wherein the dehumidification element and the electrode are integrated in the screw member.

4. The monitor camera device according to claim 1, wherein the dehumidification element is provided with a solid high-polymer electrolyte film interposed on both surfaces thereof between electrode films, and the dehumidification element is arranged with one surface faced an outside of the camera housing and with the other surface faced an inside of the camera housing.

5. The monitor camera device according to claim 4, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode terminal piece, and the electrode terminal piece comprises a contact portion that comes into contact with the electrode film and a terminal portion that extends from the contact portion toward the inside of the camera housing through the engaging portion.

6. The monitor camera device according to claim 5, wherein the contact portion of the electrode terminal piece is provided along an edge of the dehumidification element, the terminal portion is projected from the contact portion, and a pair of electrode terminal pieces are provided on one surface and the other surface of the dehumidification element so as to face the opposite directions from each other.

7. A monitor camera device comprising:

a camera housing provided with a screw hole, and

a screw-shaped dehumidification regulation body, having a dehumidification element and an electrode integrated therein,

wherein the screw-shaped dehumidification regulation body is screwed into the screw hole of the camera housing.

8. The monitor camera device according to claim 7, wherein the dehumidification element comprises a solid high-polymer electrolyte film, and the solid high-polymer electrolyte film is arranged so as to close up an opening provided on the screw-shaped dehumidification regulation body so as to communicate an inside and an outside of the housing.

9. A dehumidification regulation body comprising:

a dehumidification element,

an engaging portion that engages an engaged portion of a camera housing within a through hole of the engaged portion through the camera housing, and

an electrode whose one end supplies a power source to the dehumidification element and the other end penetrates through the engaging portion,

wherein the dehumidification regulation body is detachably attached to the camera housing by the engaging portion of the dehumidification regulation body and the engaged portion of the camera housing.