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公开(公告)号：US10965846B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-30
申请号：US16679385
申请日：2019-11-11
Applicant: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
Inventor： Jamie A. Mleczko , Jonathan D. Conger , Steven V. Byrne , Yuesheng Lu
IPC: H04N5/225 , G08G1/16 , G08G1/0962
Abstract: A method of assembling a vehicular camera module includes providing a metal front housing having (i) a front portion, (ii) a rear portion opposite the front portion and (iii) a plurality of side walls extending between the front portion and the rear portion. A printed circuit board is disposed in a cavity of the metal front housing, and a lens holder is attached at the front portion of the metal front housing so that the lens is optically aligned with an imager of the printed circuit board. A metal rear housing has a connector portion having a coaxial connecting element. With the metal rear housing joined with the rear portion of the metal front housing, an inner portion of the coaxial connecting element extends inward into the cavity of the metal front housing and an outer portion of the coaxial connecting element extends outward from the metal rear housing.
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公开(公告)号：US20210084208A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-18
申请号：US17247081
申请日：2020-11-30
Applicant: Magna Electronics Inc.
Inventor： Jamie A. Mleczko , Steven V. Byrne , Jonathan D. Conger , Rene Dreiocker , Rainer Strey
Abstract: A vehicular camera module includes a lens barrel having a plurality of optical elements accommodated therein, a front camera housing portion, and a rear camera housing portion mated with the front camera housing to form a housing that encases an imager printed circuit board and a processor printed circuit board. A heat transfer element is disposed between and in thermal conductive contact with the imager printed circuit board and a rear wall of the rear camera housing. The heat transfer element extends through an aperture of the processor printed circuit board. Circuitry of the camera module is electrically connected to electrical connecting elements that electrically connect to a wire harness of a vehicle when the camera module is disposed at the vehicle. Heat generated by operation of the vehicular camera module is drawn from the imager printed circuit board to the rear camera housing portion via the heat transfer element.
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公开(公告)号：US20200321716A1
公开(公告)日：2020-10-08
申请号：US15929699
申请日：2020-05-18
Applicant: Magna Electronics Inc.
Inventor： Jonathan D. Conger , Steven V. Byme , Nazar F. Bally , Achim Newiger , Christian Mai
Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a front housing portion that accommodates a lens and an imager, a circuit board disposed at the front housing portion, a rear housing portion and a coaxial connecting element at the rear housing portion. The coaxial connecting element includes a first coaxial connector portion and a second coaxial connector portion. The first coaxial connector portion extends outward from the rear housing portion and the second coaxial connector portion extends inward from the rear housing portion. The circuit board has a coaxial connector established thereat. When the rear housing portion is mated with the front housing portion, the second coaxial connector portion electrically connects to the coaxial connector to electrically connect the coaxial connecting element with circuitry at the circuit board. The first coaxial connector portion is configured to connect to a coaxial cable of a vehicle when the vehicular camera is disposed at the vehicle.
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公开(公告)号：US20200314311A1
公开(公告)日：2020-10-01
申请号：US16830535
申请日：2020-03-26
Applicant: Magna Electronics Inc.
Inventor： Zhongyao Liu , Yuesheng Lu , Jonathan D. Conger
Abstract: A vehicular camera for a vehicular vision system includes a housing having a front housing portion and a rear housing portion, with the front housing portion including a lens barrel for accommodating a lens. A heating device is disposed at an outermost lens element of the lens. The heating device includes a pair of electrically conductive elements that are routed along the lens barrel for electrical connection to circuitry at a printed circuit board. An outer end of each of the electrically conductive elements is disposed at and in contact with a heating element at and in contact with the inner surface of the outermost lens element. When powered, the heating element heats the outermost lens element to evaporate moisture or condensation thereat. The camera is configured to be disposed at an exterior portion of a vehicle so as to have a field of view exterior of the vehicle.
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公开(公告)号：US20200307455A1
公开(公告)日：2020-10-01
申请号：US16830517
申请日：2020-03-26
Applicant: Magna Electronics Inc.
Inventor： Zhongyao Liu , Yuesheng Lu , Jonathan D. Conger
Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a camera having a housing and a lens barrel including a lens. The camera is configured to be disposed at an exterior portion of a vehicle so as to have a field of view exterior of the vehicle. An image processor is operable to process frames of image data captured by the camera. A heating device is disposed at or near the lens and is activated to initially heat the lens responsive to determination, via processing by the image processor of a frame of captured image data, of a threshold degree of lens occlusion at the lens. The heating device is (i) deactivated responsive to determination that the determined lens occlusion is not water or moisture, or (ii) further powered to increase the heating function responsive to determination that the determined occlusion is water or moisture.
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公开(公告)号：US10560613B2
公开(公告)日：2020-02-11
申请号：US15878446
申请日：2018-01-24
Applicant: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
Inventor： Jonathan D. Conger , Steven V. Byrne
Abstract: A camera assembly for a vehicular vision system includes a housing that accommodates a lens and a circuit board. An imager is disposed at the circuit board and optically aligned with the lens, and circuitry is disposed at the circuit board and electrically connected with the imager. The housing includes a rear housing portion that has an aperture therethrough, with the aperture aligned with an electrical connecting element of the circuit board. A bracket includes a mounting portion configured to attach at the vehicle and at the rear housing portion. With an electrical connector electrically connected to the electrical connecting element of the circuit board, the bracket is attached at the rear housing portion, and a structural element of the electrical connector is clamped between the bracket and the rear housing portion to maintain electrical connection of the electrical connector with the electrical connecting element of the circuit board.
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公开(公告)号：US10477083B2
公开(公告)日：2019-11-12
申请号：US16297790
申请日：2019-03-11
Applicant: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
Inventor： Jamie A. Mleczko , Jonathan D. Conger , Steven V. Byrne , Yuesheng Lu
IPC: H04N5/225 , G08G1/16 , G08G1/0962
Abstract: A camera module for a vehicular vision system includes a metal front housing, a lens holder and a metal rear housing. The front housing houses a printed circuit board having an imager disposed thereat. The lens holder is attached at a front portion of the housing so that a lens assembly is optically aligned with the imager. The rear housing attaches at a rear portion of the front housing and includes a connecting element for electrically connecting to circuitry at the printed circuit board when the rear housing is attached at the rear portion of the front housing. An outer portion of the connecting element is disposed in a connector portion of the rear housing so as to be electrically connectable to electrically conductive elements of a vehicle connector when the camera module is disposed at the vehicle and the vehicle connector is connected to the connector portion.
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公开(公告)号：US20190124238A1
公开(公告)日：2019-04-25
申请号：US16165170
申请日：2018-10-19
Applicant: Magna Electronics Inc.
Inventor： Steven V. Byrne , Yuesheng Lu , Jonathan D. Conger , Rene Dreiocker
CPC classification number: H04N5/2253 , B60R1/00 , B60R2300/105 , H04N5/2252 , H04N5/22521 , H04N5/2257 , H05K7/20409 , H05K7/205 , H05K7/20854
Abstract: A camera module for a vehicular vision system includes a lens barrel having a lens accommodated therein, a front camera housing portion that accommodates an imager printed circuit board therein, and a rear camera housing portion mated with a rear portion of said front camera housing so as to encase the imager printed circuit board in the camera module. The imager printed circuit board is disposed at the lens barrel and bonded thereat with the imager optically aligned with an optical axis of the optical elements. The front camera housing portion may include mounting structure for mounting at a vehicle. The camera module has a center of mass, and distance from the optical axis of the lens to the mounting structure may be the same as distance from the center of mass to the mounting structure.
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公开(公告)号：US10264219B2
公开(公告)日：2019-04-16
申请号：US15722145
申请日：2017-10-02
Applicant: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
Inventor： Jamie A. Mleczko , Jonathan D. Conger
IPC: B60Q1/00 , H04N7/18 , B60N2/00 , B60Q1/14 , B60R1/08 , B60R1/12 , B60R11/04 , B60Q9/00 , H04N13/239 , H04N5/225
Abstract: A camera for a vision system of a vehicle includes a lens accommodated in a lens barrel, a front camera housing and a rear camera housing. An imager is disposed at a printed circuit board, and a spring-biased electrical connector is disposed at the rear camera housing. The electrical connector includes an inner terminal and an outer terminal for connecting to respective ones of an inner contact and an outer contact at the printed circuit board. As the rear camera housing is moved into engagement with the front camera housing, the inner and outer terminals engage with the inner and outer contacts and compress towards a compressed state and, after the rear camera housing is attached at the front camera housing, are in spring-biased electrical connection with the inner and outer contacts at the printed circuit board.
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公开(公告)号：US20180152605A1
公开(公告)日：2018-05-31
申请号：US15878446
申请日：2018-01-24
Applicant: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
Inventor： Jonathan D. Conger , Steven V. Byrne
CPC classification number: H04N5/2252 , B60R11/04 , G06K9/00791 , G06K9/209 , H04N5/2253 , H04N5/2257
Abstract: A camera assembly for a vehicular vision system includes a housing that accommodates a lens and a circuit board. An imager is disposed at the circuit board and optically aligned with the lens, and circuitry is disposed at the circuit board and electrically connected with the imager. The housing includes a rear housing portion that has an aperture therethrough, with the aperture aligned with an electrical connecting element of the circuit board. A bracket includes a mounting portion configured to attach at the vehicle and at the rear housing portion. With an electrical connector electrically connected to the electrical connecting element of the circuit board, the bracket is attached at the rea housing portion, and a structural element of the electrical connector is clamped between the bracket and the rear housing portion to maintain electrical connection of the electrical connector with the electrical connecting element of the circuit board.
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