Mobile Terminal Camera Bracket Design for Thin Profile and Structural Strength
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile terminal camera devices face challenges in maintaining a thin design while ensuring structural strength and protection from external forces, as they often require additional components that increase thickness and vulnerability to damage.
Innovation Solution
A camera device with a bracket that includes a frame body and fixing portions, where the frame body defines a receiving space for the camera unit and the fixing portions are configured to connect to a mounting member, enhancing structural strength and eliminating the need for an additional bottom wall, thus reducing thickness and protecting the camera from external impacts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If additional components are added to protect the camera from external forces, then the camera's protection is improved, but the overall thickness of the camera device increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the protection function into the existing bracket structure by having the bracket extend to cover the camera unit. The bracket is integrated with the mounting member and forms a unified structure that provides both mechanical support and protective coverage, eliminating the need for separate protective components that would increase thickness.
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the thickness direction of the camera device, providing protection through lateral coverage rather than adding thickness. The end surface of the bracket adjacent to the bottom of the camera unit protrudes relative to the bottom of the camera unit, creating a protective overhang that shields the camera from external forces without increasing the device's thickness dimension.
2Strength
If additional components are added to enhance structural strength, then the structural strength is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting member and bracket are integrated into a unified structure where the bracket is formed as part of the mounting member. This integration provides enhanced structural strength for mounting the camera unit while reducing the total number of separate components, thereby simplifying the device rather than increasing complexity.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the bracket extends to cover the camera unit, then the protection from external forces is improved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket and mounting member are designed as an integrated structure that can be formed in a single manufacturing process. The bracket extends from the mounting member in a substantially perpendicular direction, creating a unified component that reduces assembly steps and manufacturing complexity while providing comprehensive protection for the camera unit.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively reduces the overall thickness of the camera device, enhances its structural strength, and improves the integrity and consistency of the mobile terminal's appearance, while preventing damage from external forces and maintaining a thin design.
Implementation Method 1
provided with a joint portion configured to connect an external device by hot melting
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AI summary
The disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, includes a display screen, a border and a rear housing, the display screen and the rear housing being respectively disposed on two sides of the border, a mounting member being disposed between the display screen and the rear housing. The mobile terminal also includes a camera device connected to the mounting member, and the camera device includes a camera unit and a bracket. The bracket includes a frame body and a fixing portion connected to the frame body, the frame body defines a receiving space, and the camera unit is partially accommodated in the receiving space. The fixing portion is provided with a joint portion, and the joint portion is configured to connect the mounting member by hot melting. The fixing portion is set on a side of the frame body facing away from the receiving space, and the camera device is connected to the mounting member by the fixing portion. The disclosure also relates to the camera device and bracket of the above mobile terminal.