IP Library Granted Patent US 9,699,359
Granted Patent B2
US 9,699,359 · App. 15/001,535 · Granted Jul 4, 2017

Imaging apparatus

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Patent No.
US 9,699,359
App. No.
15/001,535
Granted
Jul 4, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging apparatus includes a lens module having a lens at a front thereof, a dome cover including a lens module housing space, an apparatus main body attached with the dome cover, a first support member supported at the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner inside the dome cover, a second support member supported at the first support member in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module, a ring-shaped light shielding cover that surrounds the front of the lens module and comes into contact with an inner surface of the dome cover, an illumination mount that includes an illumination member provided further outward than an inner circumference of the light shielding cover and the light shielding cover disposed thereon and supported at the second support member, and a first elastic member that biases the illumination mount toward the dome cover.

Claims (25)

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

a lens module that includes a lens at a front of the lens module;

a dome cover having a housing space that houses the lens module;

an apparatus main body that is attached to the dome cover;

a first support that is supported by the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner in the housing space of the dome cover;

a second support that is supported by the first support in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module;

a ring-shaped light shielding cover that surrounds the front of the lens module and contacts an inner surface of the dome cover;

an illumination mount that includes an illumination light source positioned outside an inner circumference of the light shielding cover, and that is supported by the second support, the light shielding cover being provided on the illumination mount; and

a first spring that biases the illumination mount toward the dome cover, the illumination mount being movable separately from the lens module by the first spring.

2. The imaging apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:

a second spring that biases a lens module plate toward the dome cover.

3. The imaging apparatus of claim 2 ,

wherein the lens module plate is integrally fixed to the lens module on an outer circumference of the lens module, the lens module plate and the lens module being immovable with respect to each other.

4. The imaging apparatus of claim 1 ,

wherein the second support surrounds the lens module, and

the first spring surrounds the lens module between the illumination mount and the second support.

5. The imaging apparatus of claim 1 , wherein

the illumination mount is movable in a lens center axis direction separately from the lens module.

6. The imaging apparatus of claim 5 , wherein

the second support includes an elongated hole extending in the lens center axis direction,

the illumination mount engages with a periphery of the elongated hole and is slidably movable within the elongated hole.

7. The imaging apparatus of claim 6 , wherein

the illumination mount comprises a screw that engages with the periphery of the elongated hole, and is movable separately from the lens module by the screw sliding within the elongated hole.

8. The imaging apparatus of claim 1 , wherein

the light shielding cover contacts the dome cover such that a relative position between the light shielding cover and the dome cover does not change after the dome cover is attached to the apparatus main body.

Assignments (7)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 16, 2023
From: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
To: I-PRO CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 063101/0966 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Mar 16, 2023
From: I-PRO CO., LTD.
To: I-PRO CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 063102/0075 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Dec 31, 2020
From: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054883/0248 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 31, 2020
From: PSP HOLDINGS CO., LTD
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054883/0234 →
MERGER Recorded Dec 31, 2020
From: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
To: PSP HOLDINGS CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 054883/0201 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 19, 2019
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 051369/0172 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 3, 2016
From: URANO, SEIJI; TASAKA, HIROKAZU; OMATA, AKITO
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 037660/0186 →