Camera Mount With Pivot Cable Routing for Flexible Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
The installation of cameras near medical imaging systems is challenging due to the complexity of clinical facilities, requiring flexible spatial positioning of the camera's field of view while ensuring cable management and protection from damage.
Innovation Solution
A holding device with a camera-side and support structure-side pivot bearing system, allowing for adjustable positioning of the camera and sensor with integrated cable routing, ensuring cables are protected and out of the way, utilizing a universal joint mechanism for flexible alignment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the camera is mounted with multiple degrees of freedom for flexible positioning, then the alignment flexibility is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The holding device is divided into multiple independent pivot bearings (first pivot bearing for pan rotation, second pivot bearing for tilt rotation) that can be independently adjusted and locked. This segmentation allows each degree of freedom to be controlled separately, providing alignment flexibility while keeping the adjustment process systematic and manageable rather than overly complex.
Solution Approach 2:
The pivot bearings are designed with locking mechanisms that allow the camera to transition between fixed and movable states. During installation, the locking mechanisms are released to allow dynamic adjustment of the camera position and orientation. Once aligned, the locking mechanisms are engaged to fix the position, providing stability. This dynamic capability enables flexible positioning without requiring permanently complex adjustment mechanisms.
2Ease of manufacture
If cables are routed through the pivot mechanism area, then the cable management is simplified, but the cables are vulnerable to damage from pivoting movements
Solution Approach 1:
A cable guide is introduced as an intermediary component between the pivot mechanism and the cables. The cable guide extends through the intermediate piece and is positioned to guide cables away from the pivot axes. This intermediary structure allows cables to be routed through the holding device in a simple manner while simultaneously protecting them from damage by ensuring they do not interfere with the pivoting movements of the camera.
3Ease of manufacture
If the cable guide region intersects with the pivot axis, then the cable routing is simplified, but the pivot movement is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The cable guide is designed with specific geometric properties at different locations. In the region of the intermediate piece pivot axis, the longitudinal line of the cable guide runs substantially perpendicular to the pivot axis, creating a local configuration that allows free pivoting movement. This local geometric arrangement ensures that while the cable guide provides structured cable routing, it does not restrict the pivot movement range, maintaining both cable management simplicity and adaptability.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a holding device for holding a camera, wherein the holding device comprises a camera-side part, a camera-side pivot bearing, a camera-side locking mechanism, a camera-side intermediate piece, a support structure-side intermediate piece, an intermediate piece pivot bearing, an intermediate piece locking mechanism, and a cable guide area, wherein the camera-side part is configured to receive the camera and is pivotably mounted relative to the camera-side intermediate piece about a camera-side pivot axis by means of the camera-side pivot bearing when the camera-side locking mechanism is released, wherein the camera-side intermediate piece is pivotably mounted relative to the support structure-side intermediate piece about an intermediate piece pivot axis by means of the intermediate piece pivot bearing when the intermediate piece locking mechanism is released.wherein the cable guidance area extends along a longitudinal line of the cable guidance area through the support structure-side intermediate piece and the camera-side intermediate piece into the camera-side part, wherein the longitudinal line of the cable guidance area in the area of the intermediate piece swivel axis is substantially perpendicular to the intermediate piece swivel axis, wherein the intermediate piece swivel bearing and the intermediate piece locking mechanism are arranged outside the cable guidance area.