Camera housing for adjusting an optical system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9973667-B2
Application number	US-201615193898-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 27, 2016
Priority date	Jun 30, 2015
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

A housing for mounting a component that includes an image sensor, a fixed installation space being provided in the interior of the housing for accommodating at least one optical component. The housing has at least one outer receiving recess that is spatially separate from the interior of the housing. This outer receiving recess is provided for receiving at least one positioning element in a way that allows the positioning element to define a support plane relative to the housing, and the component including the image sensor to be placed on the positioning element, so that the component including the image sensor resides in the defined support plane. In this case, the component including the image sensor may be placed in the defined support plane in a way that does not allow any direct contact between the component that includes the image sensor, and the housing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A housing for mounting a component that includes an image sensor, the housing comprising:
a fixed installation space provided in an interior of the housing for accommodating at least one optical component including a lens, wherein the housing is configured to directly support and directly contact the lens;
at least one outer receiving recess, spatially separate from the interior of the housing, for receiving at least one positioning element in a way that allows the positioning element to define a support plane relative to the housing, and so the component including the image sensor placed on the positioning element resides in the defined support plane, so that no direct contact results between the component that includes the image sensor, and the housing;
wherein the housing, including the fixed installation space and the at least one outer receiving recess, is a one-piece cast part.

2. The housing as recited in claim 1 , wherein the housing has at least three outer receiving recesses.

3. The housing as recited in claim 1 , wherein the at least one outer receiving recess is one of a cavity or a through-extending opening at a location of the housing.

4. A device for mounting a component that includes an image sensor, comprising
a housing, a fixed installation space for accommodating at least one optical component including a lens being provided in an interior of the housing, wherein the housing is configured to directly support and directly contact the lens; and
at least one positioning element;
wherein the housing has at least one outer receiving recess that is spatially separate from the interior of the housing that is provided for receiving the at least one positioning element in a way that allows the positioning element to define a support plane relative to the housing, and so that the component including the image sensor when placed on the positioning element resides in the defined support plane, and there is no direct contact between the component that includes the image sensor, and the housing;
wherein the housing, including the fixed installation space and the at least one outer receiving access, is a one-piece cast part.

5. The device as recited in claim 4 , wherein the device additionally includes at least one optical component that is fixedly mounted in the interior of the housing at the fixed installation space provided for at least one optical component.

6. The device as recited in claim 4 , wherein three positioning elements are used, the three positioning elements being three pin-shaped positioning elements having rounded ends.

7. The device as recited in claim 4 , wherein a position of the at least one positioning element is variable relative to the outer receiving recess.

8. The device as recited in claim 4 , wherein the device further comprises the component including the image sensor, the component including the image sensor being situated on the positioning element, the image sensor having a plane supporting surface where contact to the at least one positioning element is provided.

9. A method for mounting a component that includes an image sensor, the method comprising:
providing a housing, a fixed installation space being provided in the interior of the housing for accommodating at least one optical component including a lens, the at least one optical component being fixed in position in the housing, the housing directly supporting and directly contacting the lens;
providing at least one positioning element, the at least one positioning element being at least one of: (i) mounted separately from the interior of the housing, and (ii) can be mounted at at least one outer receiving recess of the housing that is separate from the interior of the housing;
providing a component that includes an image sensor;
measuring optical properties of the at least one optical component;
based on the measuring, designating a preferred image plane in which the image sensor is to be mounted relative to at least one of: (i) a mechanical reference on the housing, and (ii) the optical component;
at least one of: i) adapting the at least one positioning element in a way that allows a support plane to be defined, taking into consideration the preferred image plane and the component including the image sensor, and ii) mounting the at least one positioning element on the at least one outer receiving recess in a way that allows a support plane to be defined, taking into consideration the preferred image plane and the component including the image sensor; and
mounting the component that includes the image sensor on the at least one positioning element in a way that allows the image sensor to reside in the preferred image plane;
wherein the housing, including the fixed installation space and the at least one outer receiving access, is a one-piece cast part.

10. The method as recited in claim 9 , wherein the component including the image sensor is joined in a further step to the at least one positioning element in a material-to-material bond.

11. The method as recited in claim 9 , wherein the component including the image sensor is joined in a further step to the housing in a way that allows an intermediate space between the housing and the component including the image sensor to be closed by form-locking engagement or by a material-to-material bond.

12. The method as recited in claim 9 , wherein the component that includes the image sensor is mounted in such a way that no direct contact results between the component that includes the image sensor, and the housing.

Assignees

• Bosch Gmbh Robert

Inventors

• Seger Ulrich
• Bauer Nikolai
• Aranovich Dmitriy
• Diesel Peter

Classifications

• H04N23/57

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

• G03B17/02 Primary

  Bodies · CPC title

• H04N23/51

  Housings · CPC title

• H04N23/54 Primary

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

• H04N5/2257

  Electricity · mapped topic