IP Library Granted Patent US 11,423,749
Granted Patent B2
US 11,423,749 · App. 16/802,952 · Granted Aug 23, 2022

Surveillance camera

Inventors: Akito Omata (Fukuoka, JP); Hirokazu Tasaka (Fukuoka, JP); Yusuke Mamiya (Fukuoka, JP); Masashi Nakamura (Fukuoka, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
G08B13/19619G03B17/08G08B13/1963G08B29/04G08G1/017G08G1/04
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Patent No.
US 11,423,749
App. No.
16/802,952
Granted
Aug 23, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A surveillance camera is equipped with a capturing unit to capture a subject; an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject; a main body that is approximately formed in a cuboid that is long in a top-bottom direction and has an internal housing space that is partitioned by a partition plate into a lower space that houses the capturing unit and an upper space that houses the illumination unit; a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and a water repelling portion that is formed in step form in a tip portion of the visor.

Claims (45)

1. A surveillance camera comprising:

a capturing unit that is configured to capture a subject;

an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject;

a main body that is approximately formed in a cuboid that is long in a top-bottom direction and has an internal housing space that houses the capturing unit and the illumination unit;

a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers, from above, a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and

a step-shaped water repelling portion that is defined in a protrusion tip portion of the visor in such a manner that a tip inner circumferential surface of the visor recedes from a tip of an outer circumferential surface of the visor in a direction opposite to the projection of the visor.

2. A surveillance camera comprising:

a capturing unit that is configured to capture a subject;

an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject;

a main body that is approximately formed in a cuboid that is long in a top-bottom direction and has an internal housing space that houses the capturing unit and the illumination unit;

a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers, from above, a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and

a step-shaped water repelling portion that is defined in a protrusion tip portion of the visor in such a manner that a tip inner circumferential surface of the visor recedes from a tip of an outer circumferential surface of the visor in a direction opposite to the projection of the visor, wherein

the water repelling portion has

a first tip surface that is connected to the tip outer circumferential surface,

a tip bottom surface that is connected to and bends inward from the first tip surface and

a second tip surface that is connected to the tip inner circumferential surface, and

the tip bottom surface and the second tip surface form an acute angle.

3. The surveillance camera according to claim 1 , wherein:

the visor is formed in an inverted-U-shaped gutter that is open at the bottom.

4. The surveillance camera according to claim 1 , wherein:

the visor has

a top protrusion tip portion and

a bottom protrusion tip portion that recedes from the top protrusion tip portion in the direction opposite to projection of the visor.

5. A surveillance camera comprising:

a capturing unit that is configured to capture a subject;

an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject;

a main body that is approximately formed in a cuboid that is long in a top-bottom direction and has an internal housing space that houses the capturing unit and the illumination unit;

a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers, from above, a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and

a step-shaped water repelling portion that is defined in a protrusion tip portion of the visor in such a manner that a tip inner circumferential surface of the visor recedes from a tip of an outer circumferential surface of the visor in direction opposite to the projection of the visor, wherein

a glass plate which covers a lens of the capturing unit is disposed inside the visor so as to be inclined forward with respect to an imaginary line that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens.

6. The surveillance camera according to claim 5 , wherein:

a capturing unit opening where a bottom plate portion is provided is formed in a main body front portion of the main body; and

a bottom plate tip portion of the bottom plate portion is exposed as a result of forward inclination of the glass plate and retreat of a bottom portion of the glass plate, the bottom plate being formed with a cut right under an illuminance sensor provided under the glass plate.

7. A surveillance camera comprising:

a capturing unit that is configured to capture a subject;

an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject;

a main body that has an internal housing space that houses the capturing unit and the illumination unit;

a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers, from above, a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and

a step-shaped water repelling portion that is defined in a protrusion tip portion of the visor in such a manner that a tip of an outer circumferential surface of the visor projects further outward from the main body than a tip inner circumferential surface of the visor.

8. A surveillance camera comprising:

a capturing unit that is configured to capture a subject;

an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject;

a main body that has an internal housing space that houses the capturing unit and the illumination unit;

a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers, from above, a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and

a step-shaped water repelling portion that is defined in a protrusion tip portion of the visor and includes a groove disposed between an outer circumferential surface of the visor and a tip inner circumferential surface of the visor to prevent liquid accumulating on the visor from traveling to the inner circumferential surface and toward the main body.

Assignments (3)
ADDRESS CHANGE Recorded Dec 29, 2020
From: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 055479/0932 →
MERGER Recorded Dec 28, 2020
From: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054757/0114 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2020
From: OMATA, AKITO; TASAKA, HIROKAZU; MAMIYA, YUSUKE; NAKAMURA, MASASHI
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 053130/0702 →