In-vehicle camera attached to windshield forming inhibition space therebetween
A vehicle-mounted camera has a lens disposed on a protruding part, which protrudes from the upper surface of a vehicle-mounted camera body; thus, compared to the situation in which the entire vehicle-mounted camera body is positioned below a bracket, the lens can be positioned at the shortest distance from a windshield, thereby enabling the length of a hood to be reduced. Furthermore, the in-vehicle camera is able to take up a large area of the portion of the bracket affixed to the windshield.
1. An in-vehicle camera, comprising:
a bracket to be attached to an inner surface of a windshield; and
an in-vehicle camera body assembly having a wedge-like shape when viewed from a left-right direction of the vehicle and having a lens and fixed to the bracket,
wherein:
the bracket has an attachment portion and a mounting portion, the attachment portion being attached to the windshield, the mounting portion supporting the in-vehicle camera body assembly under the attachment portion;
the in-vehicle camera body assembly has a facing portion, and a projection portion, the facing portion being disposed under the attachment portion when the in-vehicle camera body assembly is fixed to the bracket, the projection portion having a step projecting from the facing portion, the lens being provided to the projection portion, and
the attachment portion has a first cut-out portion forming a space along the windshield above the projection portion when the in-vehicle camera body assembly is fixed to the bracket;
the attachment portion includes an attachment surface attached to the windshield, the attachment surface having a rear portion disposed behind the lens and a front portion extending ahead of the lens, and having a shape substantially covering an upper surface of the wedge-like shaped in-vehicle camera body assembly;
the first cut-out portion defines a cut-out area of the bracket, the cut-out area being cut-out from the attachment portion of the bracket;
the projection portion is exposed to the cut-out area; and
the cut-out area is larger than an area of the projection portion exposing to the first cut-out portion;
the facing portion has an extending front surface extending to a front side of the facing portion relative to the projection portion;
the extending front surface defines a light passing space in front of the lens; and
the light passing space is separated from a space of an interior of the vehicle by the extending front surface.
2. The in-vehicle camera according to claim 1 , wherein
the projection portion is formed to project into the space formed along the windshield by the first cut-out portion.
3. The in-vehicle camera according to claim 2 , wherein
the extending front surface has a recess forming an inhibition space including at least a defined space defined by an angle of field of the in-vehicle camera body assembly through the lens in a space between the lens and the windshield.
4. The in-vehicle camera according to claim 3 , wherein
the rear portion is formed to surround the projection portion behind the defined space.
5. The in-vehicle camera according to claim 4 , wherein
the front portion has a second cut-out portion forming the defined space.
6. The in-vehicle camera according to claim 1 , further comprising
a light-blocking portion formed by a hood detachably attached to the in-vehicle camera body assembly.