VEHICULAR VIDEO-RECORDING MODULE

• US 20140198212A1
• Filed: 01/14/2013
• Published: 07/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TUNG THIH Electron Company Limited
• Original Assignee: TUNG THIH Electron Company Limited
• Inventors: LIN, Yih-Jyh, SHIEH, Po-Zong, CHEN, Yan-Ting
• Application Number:
  US13/740,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20140198212A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings

Abstract

A flat vehicular video-recording module has a housing being transversely elongated and having a circuit board therein. The housing further has a photo-sensing element thereon to align with the circuit board, a connector extending outwards from the housing and sticking plasters thereon. Given the foregoing structural design, the video-recording module can be effectively reduced in thickness and can be applied to a vehicle with narrow space available inside the vehicle, thereby rendering higher flexibility in mounting and design.

Claims

1. A vehicular video-recording module comprising:

a housing being flat and having;

a top cover having;

a top;

two lateral sides;

a front side;

an open bottom;

a lens-mounting portion formed on the top of the top cover opposite to the open bottom;

two side wings formed on and protruding transversely from the respective lateral sides of the top cover, each side wing having a sticking plaster formed on a top of the side wing; and

a first connection interface mounted on the front side of the top cover; and

a bottom cover mounted in the open bottom of the top cover and having a top;

a circuit board mounted inside the housing, located between the top cover and the bottom cover, and having a photo-sensing element and a protection shield mounted on the circuit board;

a lens mounted in the lens-mounting portion of the housing and aligned with the photo-sensing element on the circuit board; and

a connector assembly having a second connection interface, a connection cord and a plug electrically connected to one another, wherein the second connection interface is connected to the first connection interface of the housing.

2. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the lens-mounting portion has:

a receiving chamber formed in the top of the top cover and defined by a wall;

a mounting hole being a threaded hole and formed through the receiving chamber and the top cover to communicate with the open bottom of the top cover; and

a flange wall formed on and protruding upwardly from a top of the wall defining the receiving chamber; and

the lens has;

an assembly part formed on one end of the lens, being externally threaded, and engaging the mounting hole of the lens-mounting portion so that the lens is located within the receiving chamber; and

a lens-fixing ring mounted on the lens and securely combined with the flange wall of the lens-mounting portion.

3. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 2, wherein a sealing adhesive is filled between the lens and the flange wall.

4. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 3, wherein an inner wall of the lens-fixing ring and a periphery of the lens are spaced apart from each other by a gap.

5. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the bottom cover is rectangular and has:

four corners;

two engagement columns formed on and protruding upwardly from two opposite corners among the four corners on the top of the bottom cover; and

a foolproof pin formed on and protruding from one of the corners on the top of the bottom cover; and

the circuit board is rectangular and has;

four corners;

two unfilled corners respectively formed on and recessed inwardly from two opposite corners among the four corners of the circuit board; and

a foolproof hole formed through one of the corners of the circuit board;

wherein the unfilled corners of the circuit board respectively abut against the engagement columns of the bottom cover, and the foolproof pin of the bottom cover is mounted in the foolproof hole of the circuit board.

6. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 2, wherein

the bottom cover is rectangular and has:

four corners;

two engagement columns formed on and protruding upwardly from opposite two of the corners on the top of the bottom cover; and

a foolproof pin formed on and protruding from one of the corners on the top of the bottom cover; and

the circuit board is rectangular and has;

four corners;

two unfilled corners respectively formed on and recessed inwardly from two opposite corners among the four corners of the circuit board; and

a foolproof hole formed through one of the corners of the circuit board;

wherein the unfilled corners of the circuit board respectively abut against the engagement columns of the bottom cover, and the foolproof pin of the bottom cover is mounted in the foolproof hole of the circuit board.

7. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the bottom cover is rectangular and has:

four corners;

two engagement columns formed on and protruding upwardly from two opposite corners among the four corners on the top of the bottom cover; and

a foolproof pin formed on and protruding from one of the corners on the top of the bottom cover; and

the circuit board is rectangular and has;

four corners;

two unfilled corners respectively formed on and recessed inwardly from two opposite corners among the four corners of the circuit board; and

a foolproof hole formed through one of the corners of the circuit board;

wherein the unfilled corners of the circuit board respectively abut against the engagement columns of the bottom cover, and the foolproof pin of the bottom cover is mounted in the foolproof hole of the circuit board.

8. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 4, wherein

the bottom cover is rectangular and has:

four corners;

two engagement columns formed on and protruding upwardly from two opposite corners among the four corners on the top of the bottom cover; and

a foolproof pin formed on and protruding from one of the corners on the top of the bottom cover; and

the circuit board is rectangular and has;

four corners;

two unfilled corners respectively formed on and recessed inwardly from two opposite corners among the four corners of the circuit board; and

a foolproof hole formed through one of the corners of the circuit board;

wherein the unfilled corners of the circuit board respectively abut against the engagement columns of the bottom cover, and the foolproof pin of the bottom cover is mounted in the foolproof hole of the circuit board.

9. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 5, wherein the bottom cover has a sidewall formed around an edge portion on the top of the bottom cover and being inserted into the open bottom of the top cover to engage the bottom cover and the top cover.

10. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 6, wherein the bottom cover has a sidewall formed around an edge portion on the top of the bottom cover and being inserted into the open bottom of the top cover to engage the bottom cover and the top cover.

11. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 7, wherein the bottom cover has a sidewall formed around an edge portion on the top of the bottom cover and being inserted into the open bottom of the top cover to engage the bottom cover and the top cover.

12. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 8, wherein the bottom cover has a sidewall formed around an edge portion on the top of the bottom cover and being inserted into the open bottom of the top cover to engage the bottom cover and the top cover.

13. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 9, wherein the bottom cover has multiple stand-mounting holes formed in a bottom of the bottom cover.

14. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 10, wherein the bottom cover has multiple stand-mounting holes formed in a bottom of the bottom cover.

15. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 11, wherein the bottom cover has multiple stand-mounting holes formed in a bottom of the bottom cover.

16. The vehicular video-recording module as claimed in claim 12, wherein the bottom cover has multiple stand-mounting holes formed in a bottom of the bottom cover.