Imaging apparatus

• US 9,160,908 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2013
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), JST Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), JST Manufacturing Company Limited
• Inventors: Shiraishi, Makoto, Mori, Mitsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Sinh
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nazrul, Shahbaz
• Application Number:
  US13/854,282
• Publication Number:
  US 20130293771A1
• Time in Patent Office: 925 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/02 Bodies
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/57 Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices

Abstract

A front case 50 accommodates a substrate 30 on which female contacts 90 are mounted. The female contacts 90 are accommodated in a housing 70. From a rear portion 61 of a rear case 60, male contacts 80 protrude forward. The front protrusion 80a of each male contact 80 is provided inside a housing 62. When a housing 62 is fitted with a housing 70, each male contact 80 slides on and contacts leading ends 91a and 92a in the direction in which the housings are fitted.

Claims

1. An imaging apparatus, comprising:

a lens component;

a protector protecting the lens component;

a first case to which at least one of the lens component and the protector is attached, the first case having an opening which is formed to oppose the at least one of the lens component and the protector attached to the first case;

a first substrate on which at least one first contact electrically connected to an image sensor is mounted and which is provided in the first case; and

a second case that closes the opening of the first case,

the first case including supporting portions protruding inward from different parts of inside surfaces of the first case to form supporting surfaces facing in the same direction as the opening,

a first housing that accommodates the at least one first contact being fixed to the first substrate,

the second case including a second housing with which the first housing is fitted,

inside the second housing, a second contact electrically connected to the at least one first contact protruding from a bottom portion of the second housing,

when the first housing is fitted with the second housing, the second contact is sliding on and contacting the at least one first contact in a direction in which the first housing is fitted with the second housing, and

when the first housing is fitted with the second housing, the first substrate being movable in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the first housing is fitted with the second housing, while a periphery of the first substrate contacts with the supporting surfaces.

2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second substrate on which the image sensor is mounted and which is provided between the first substrate and the at least one of the lens component and the protector attached to the first case.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein,

a side wall of the second housing includes an extended portion which extend to be further than a leading end of the second contact from the bottom portion, in a direction in which the second contact protrudes.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the supporting surfaces include a first supporting surface and a second supporting surface formed at parts of the inside surfaces of the first case, which parts oppose each other, and the width of the first supporting surface is wider than the width of the second supporting surface in a direction in which the parts oppose each other, and

the first substrate is disposed to be closer to a base end of the second supporting surface than to a base end of the first supporting surface.

5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the at least one first contact includes a pair of first contacts,

the first housing accommodates the pair of first contacts being fixed to the first substrate,

the first housing includes a concave portion which opens toward the second case and which positionally corresponds to a gap between the pair of first contacts,

inside the second housing, the second contact is electrically connected to the pair of first contacts protruding from the bottom portion of the second housing, and

when the first housing is fitted with the second housing, the second contact is inserted into the concave portion and slides on and contacts the pair of first contacts in the direction in which the first housing is fitted with the second housing.