Camera Frame With Latching Sidewall For Easy Loading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing camera frames are large, clunky, and difficult to use, imposing limitations on camera performance and user convenience, especially in challenging action environments where secure and easy loading is required.
Innovation Solution
A removable camera frame with a latching sidewall mechanism, featuring a tongue and groove latching system and a hinge mechanism controlled by a spring, allowing for easy camera insertion and removal while maintaining secure enclosure in a compact, rectangular housing configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing camera frames are used to securely hold the camera, then the camera is held securely within the camera system, but the frames become large, clunky, and difficult to use
Solution Approach 1:
The camera frame is divided into a main body and a removable sidewall component. The sidewall can be independently removed from the main body to expose the camera, allowing secure holding when closed and easy access when opened without requiring the entire frame to be manipulated
Solution Approach 2:
The sidewall is designed to be dynamically removable and reattachable to the main body. This dynamic configuration allows the frame to transition between a closed secure state and an open accessible state, resolving the contradiction between secure holding and ease of operation
2Reliability
If existing camera frames are designed for secure enclosure, then the camera is securely held, but the loading process becomes difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the frame into removable sidewall and main body components, the loading process is simplified to merely attaching or removing the sidewall rather than manipulating a complex entire-frame mechanism, significantly reducing loading time while maintaining secure enclosure when closed
Solution Approach 2:
The sidewall is pre-configured with attachment features that align with the main body. The camera is positioned in the main body before closing, so that when the sidewall is attached, secure enclosure is immediately achieved without requiring additional adjustment or time-consuming operations
3Volume of moving object
If existing camera frames are made compact, then the housing size is reduced, but the camera loading becomes difficult for users
Solution Approach 1:
The compact frame is segmented with a removable sidewall that can be easily detached by users. This segmentation allows the housing to remain compact for portability while the simple sidewall removal mechanism maintains ease of camera loading and access despite the compact size
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides a user-friendly, compact, and secure camera housing that enhances camera performance and usability in action environments by simplifying the loading process and ensuring peak image and video quality.
Implementation Method 1
a hinge mechanism controlled by a spring
Data Source
AI summary
A camera housing includes four walls configured to enclose and secure a camera: a top wall, a bottom wall, a right wall, and a left wall. The bottom wall includes a first segment and a segment coupled by a latching mechanism. The latching mechanism comprises a tongue component coupled to the second segment and a groove component coupled to the first segment. The tongue and groove components are configured such that the tongue component securely couples the second segment to the first segment when the camera frame is in the closed configuration. In the open configuration, the first and second segment can decouple and the left wall and second segment rotates upwards relative to the top wall such that a camera can be inserted or removed from the camera system. The camera housing also includes a button interface, an input/output interface, and a mounting mechanism.