Camera Mounting Bracket with Perimeter Cleaning Channel
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle camera systems with image window washing devices require multiple components and complex assembly, and often fail to ensure complete cleaning of the camera's image window, limiting visibility.
Innovation Solution
An integrated camera mounting and image window cleaning device with a water channel in the bezel of the mounting bracket and a weep system delivering cleaning fluid around the full periphery of the image window, using a delivery channel and seal with a passageway and pump system for efficient cleaning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a gravity flow system or nozzle system is used to deliver cleaning liquid to the camera viewing window, then the image window can be cleaned, but the system requires multiple components and complex assembly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the cleaning fluid delivery function directly into the mounting bracket by forming a water channel within the bracket structure itself. This merges the mounting function and cleaning fluid delivery function into a single integrated component, eliminating the need for separate delivery mechanisms and reducing assembly complexity while maintaining cleaning effectiveness
2Reliability
If cleaning liquid is delivered through a discharge port above the camera viewing window, then the window can be cleaned, but the cleaning fluid does not inundate the entire image window perimeter
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a single-point discharge port above the window to a perimeter-based water channel that extends around the entire image window. This dimensional change from vertical discharge to horizontal perimeter distribution ensures complete coverage of the window surface while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through the integrated bracket design
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 reduces assembly complexity and cost with fewer parts, ensuring thorough and efficient cleaning of the image window for enhanced visibility by delivering cleaning fluid through a 360-degree arcuate delivery channel.
Implementation Method 1
a delivery channel extending around an outer periphery of the image window of the camera. Cleaning fluid flows through the delivery channel to wash the image window
Implementation Method 2
a seal provided between the housing and the mounting bracket
Data Source
AI summary
An integrated camera mounting and image window cleaning device includes a mounting bracket, a housing and a seal provided between the housing and the mounting bracket. A delivery channel extends around the outer periphery of the image window of the camera allowing the delivery of cleaning fluid which flows across the entire image window for cleaning.