Vehicle rear viewing device with a housing, an imaging device, and a display screen

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10486595-B2
Application number	US-201815992637-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 30, 2018
Priority date	Jun 15, 2017
Publication date	Nov 26, 2019
Grant date	Nov 26, 2019

Abstract

A vehicle rear viewing device includes an imaging device at a side portion of a vehicle configured to capture images toward a vehicle rear side. The device may also include a display device that has a display screen that displays images captured by the imaging device and a housing disposed at a vehicle front side of a side door glass of a sliding-type door and at a vehicle lower side of a front pillar. The housing may include an outer side portion that has a door handle mounted thereto and that structures a case of the imaging device and that includes an outer side through portion that exposes a lens portion of the imaging device. The housing may also include an inner side portion that structures a case of the display device and includes an inner side through portion that exposes the display screen toward a vehicle inner side.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle rear viewing device comprising:
an imaging device that is disposed at a side portion of a vehicle and is configured to capture images toward a vehicle rear side;
a display device including a display screen that is configured to display the images captured by the imaging device; and
a housing that is mounted to a side door of the vehicle and that, in a state in which a vehicle upper side portion of a side door opening of a vehicle body that is opened and closed by the side door is closed by a side door glass, is configured to be disposed at a vehicle front side of the side door glass and at a vehicle lower side of a front pillar that structures a portion of the vehicle body, the housing including an outer side portion that structures a first side surface at a vehicle transverse direction outer side, and an inner side portion that structures a second side surface at a vehicle transverse direction inner side,
wherein the outer side portion structures a portion of a case of the imaging device, and includes an outer side through portion, through which a lens portion of the imaging device is exposed,
the inner side portion structures a portion of a case of the display device, and includes an inner side through portion, through which the display screen is exposed in a state of facing a vehicle transverse direction inner side,
the side door is a sliding-type door, and
a door handle for opening and closing the side door is mounted to the outer side portion.

2. The vehicle rear viewing device of claim 1 , wherein
the housing has a substantially triangle shape whose width widens toward the vehicle rear side as seen from a thickness direction of the side door that is in a state of closing the side door opening,
the inner side through portion has a substantially triangle shape whose peripheral edge portion runs along a peripheral edge portion of the inner side portion, and
the display screen has a substantially triangle shape whose peripheral edge portion runs along the peripheral edge portion of the inner side through portion.

3. The vehicle rear viewing device of claim 1 , wherein
the outer side portion includes an outer concave portion that is recessed toward the inner side portion, and
the door handle is accommodated inside the outer concave portion.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ajisaka Satoshi

Classifications

• H04N23/57

  Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices · CPC title

• H04N23/54

  Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils · CPC title

• B60R2300/8046

  for replacing a rear-view mirror system · CPC title

• B60R11/0229

  for displays, e.g. cathodic tubes · CPC title

• B60R2011/0042

  characterised by mounting means · CPC title