Camera imaging device for a vehicle

• US 10,277,784 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2016
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Inventors: Inayama, Masahide, Nakai, Toshinari
• Primary Examiner(s): Retallick, Kaitlin A
• Application Number:
  US15/241,571
• Publication Number:
  US 20170064163A1
• Time in Patent Office: 984 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/04 Mounting of cameras operative during drive; Arrangement of controls thereof relative to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/004 outside the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0085 with adjustment by rotation in their operational position
• 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

In an imaging device, a bracket and a camera are capable of rotating with respect to a base, and harnesses are routed inside an inner supporting tube of the base. A covering frame of a harness cover covers an upper end portion of the inner supporting tube, the harness is abutted on the covering frame, and the covering frame is capable of rotating integrally with the bracket. This enables the harnesses to be suppressed from sliding on the covering frame and enables load input to the harnesses to be suppressed when the bracket is rotated, even though the harness is press-contacted to the covering frame.

Claims

1. An imaging device comprising:

a supporting body that is provided at a vehicle body side so as to protrude from the vehicle body side, the supporting body having a base end and a leading end in a protruding up-down direction between an upper edge and a lower edge of the leading end of the supporting body.

2. The imaging device of claim 1, further comprising the hook section that is configured to rotate together with the covering body and by which a portion of the wiring that extends from the leading end side opening of the insertion hole is hooked.

3. The imaging device of claim 1, wherein the wiring is a plurality of wirings disposed on the covering body in a circumferential direction of the insertion hole.

4. The imaging device of claim 2, wherein the wiring is a plurality of wirings disposed on the covering body in a circumferential direction of the insertion hole.

5. The imaging device of claim 1, wherein the wiring is a plurality of wirings disposed on the covering body in a circumferential direction of the insertion hole.

6. The imaging device of claim 3, further comprising a partition section that is configured to rotate together with the covering body and that partitions placement sections of the plurality of wirings from each other in the circumferential direction of the insertion hole.

7. The imaging device of claim 1, further comprising a restricting section that is provided at the covering body, and that is engaged at the imaging unit side so as to restrict displacement of the imaging unit in a radial direction of rotation of the imaging unit.

8. The imaging device of claim 1, wherein:

the wiring is inserted through the insertion hole such that the wiring is not abutted on the leading end of the supporting body.

9. The imaging device of claim 2, wherein:

the wiring is inserted through the insertion hole such that the wiring is not abutted on the leading end of the supporting body.

10. The imaging device of claim 1, wherein:

the wiring is inserted through the insertion hole such that the wiring is not abutted on the leading end of the supporting body.

11. The imaging device of claim 1, wherein:

the supporting body leading end covering section is fitted to the leading end of the supporting body so as to be rotatable such that the supporting body leading end covering section covers the leading end of the supporting body.

12. The imaging device of claim 1, wherein:

a covering section insertion hole is formed at the supporting body leading end covering section, the wire being inserted through the insertion hole and the covering section insertion hole.

13. The imaging device of claim 1, wherein the insertion hole is circular, and has a same cross-sectional area along its longitudinal axis.

14. The imaging device of claim 1, wherein the imaging unit includes:

an imaging section that is configured to image, and to which the wiring, extending out from the leading side opening of the insertion hole, is electrically connected, and

a rotation body to which the imaging section is fixed, and that is rotatably supported at the supporting body coaxially to the supporting body,

wherein the covering body is fixed to the rotation body such that the covering body and the supporting body leading end covering section are configured to rotate integrally with the imaging section.