Surveillance Camera Tool-Free Mounting Housing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing surveillance cameras require significant assembly effort and costly production due to multi-piece mounting devices, and their removal for servicing often necessitates tool use.
Innovation Solution
A surveillance camera design featuring a mounting housing with an opening for tool-free assembly and disassembly, utilizing automatically active securing elements such as swivelable supporting arms or locking elements that secure the camera housing in a defined position without tools, allowing for easy adjustment between functional and dismantling positions using a pressure force.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multi-piece mounting devices with separate mounting housing and cover are used, then the camera housing can be securely mounted, but the assembly effort increases and production costs rise
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting housing and cover are merged into a single integrated component. The camera housing is inserted directly into the mounting housing through an opening, and the securing elements (such as swivelable supporting arms or locking elements) are built-in, eliminating the need for separate covers and reducing the number of parts while maintaining secure mounting.
2Reliability
If traditional securing elements are used, then the camera housing is securely fixed, but tool use is required for assembly and disassembly
Solution Approach 1:
The securing elements are designed to automatically engage and secure the camera housing in the functional position without requiring tools. The swivelable supporting arms or locking elements activate automatically upon insertion, and the camera housing can be released by applying pressure force to adjust it to the dismantling position, enabling tool-free assembly and disassembly while maintaining secure fixing.
3Reliability
If the camera housing is entirely locked in place, then secure mounting is achieved, but servicing becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The securing elements are designed to be dynamically adjustable between a securing position and a dismantling position. In the functional position, the securing elements lock the camera housing securely. For servicing, pressure force applied to the front side of the camera housing adjusts it to the dismantling position, where the securing elements disengage or a grip contour becomes accessible, allowing easy removal without tools.
Data Source
AI summary
A surveillance camera includes a camera housing, an objective on a front side of the camera housing, camera electronics in the camera housing, and a mounting housing mountable to building structure and in which the camera housing can be detachably secured. The mounting housing includes an opening pointing away from the building structure, through which opening the camera housing can be inserted into the mounting housing. At least one automatically active securing element on the camera housing and/or in the mounting housing detachably secures the camera housing in the mounting housing in a defined functional position. The camera housing is adjustable from the functional position into a dismantling position by application of a force, and wherein in the dismantling position at least one securing element is disengaged and/or a grip contour is made accessible on the outside of the camera housing for application of a manual traction force.