Camera cover
It is an object of the present invention to mount a focusing mechanism of a camera device on a vehicle without bringing the mechanism in contact with a worker's hands in an in-focus state of a lens system in the camera device having an eyelid part for preventing stray light covering part of a lens, and to improve the beauty and increase mounting flexibility. In a camera cover according to the present invention, a cylinder body ( 21 ) of the camera cover ( 10 ) covers most including the first half portion of the volume of the camera device, and the cylinder body ( 21 ), a frame body ( 23 ), an eyelid part ( 25 ) and/or an eyelid part ( 26 ), and a housing part ( 27 ) are integrally molded. Beauty seen from the front can be improved, and the beauty will not be spoiled when the camera device ( 12 ) is displaced together with the camera cover ( 10 ) and mounted.
1. A camera cover comprising:
a cylinder body housing at least a lens system of a camera device, said camera device including said lens system and an image pickup device and being mounted on a vehicle; and
an eyelid part integrally molded on an open frontal part of said cylinder body, wherein
said eyelid part shields light which enters said lens system from an area other than an image pickup angle of view area by extending towards the center of said lens to form a curved surface in a shape conforming to a curved surface on a face of the lens system, said image pickup angle of view area being defined as a range in which light which enters said lens system is formed on said image pickup device within angles of view of said lens system.
2. The camera cover according to claim 1 , further comprising
a frame body integrally molded to extend inside said cylinder body on an open frontal part of said cylinder body to reinforce said cylinder body.
3. The camera cover according to claim 1 , further comprising
an engagement means formed at the rear end of said camera cover to engage said camera device at the rear end of said camera cover.
4. The camera cover according to claim 1 , wherein said eyelid part includes a first eyelid part shielding light which enters said lens system from an area above said image pickup angle of view area.
5. The camera cover according to claim 4 , wherein said eyelid part includes a second eyelid part shielding light which enters said lens system from an area below said image pickup angle of view area.
6. The camera cover according to claim 1 , wherein said eyelid part includes a second eyelid part shielding light which enters said lens system from an area below said image pickup angle of view area.