Embedded Camera Bracket With Stepped Mounting Heights
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing embedded mounting brackets for cameras require new designs for each camera size, leading to increased development costs and the need for multiple bracket varieties, which complicates replacement and storage.
Innovation Solution
An embedded mounting bracket with multiple step surfaces of different heights allows for the selective assembly of a mounting member, enabling the use of the same bracket with cameras of varying body heights, reducing the need for multiple bracket designs and facilitating easy camera replacement without requiring new brackets.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a fixed camera body height is designed for embedded mounting brackets, then the bracket structure can be simplified, but it leads to increased development cost for new camera sizes and requires multiple bracket varieties
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket body is designed with multiple step surfaces at different heights, allowing a single bracket structure to accommodate cameras of various body heights. This multi-functional design enables the same bracket to serve multiple camera models without requiring separate bracket designs for each camera size, thereby reducing development costs and inventory complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket body is segmented into multiple step surfaces, each providing a different mounting height level. This segmentation allows the mounting surface to be divided into discrete height options, enabling flexible adaptation to different camera body heights while maintaining a unified bracket structure. The segmented design resolves the contradiction by providing height variability without requiring multiple complete bracket designs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple varieties of embedded mounting brackets are produced for different camera sizes, then adaptability to various cameras is improved, but manufacturing cost and storage complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
By designing a universal bracket body with multiple step surfaces, the patent eliminates the need to manufacture separate bracket varieties for different camera sizes. The single multi-functional bracket design reduces manufacturing complexity, lowers production costs, and simplifies inventory management while maintaining full adaptability to various camera body heights.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the functionality of multiple separate brackets into a single integrated bracket body with multiple step surfaces. This consolidation combines what would have been multiple product lines into one, reducing manufacturing variety, lowering production costs, and simplifying storage and distribution while preserving adaptability to all camera sizes.
3Manufacturing precision
If new embedded mounting brackets are developed for each new camera size, then perfect fit for specific camera is achieved, but development time and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The universal bracket body with multiple step surfaces provides a precise fit for cameras of different sizes without requiring new development for each camera model. The pre-designed step surfaces accommodate various camera body heights, eliminating the need for time-consuming redesign and retooling while maintaining manufacturing precision and proper camera-bracket fit.
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket body is pre-designed with multiple step surfaces that anticipate future camera size variations. This preliminary action embeds multiple mounting height options in advance, so when new camera sizes are introduced, no additional development is needed—the bracket already has the appropriate step surface configured for the new camera height, thus saving development time while maintaining precision fit.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides an embedded mounting bracket and camera assembly comprising same. The embedded mounting bracket is used for mounting a camera, and the embedded mounting bracket includes a bracket body and a mounting member. The bracket body includes a bracket side wall, the bracket side wall includes a lower end surface and an upper end surface opposite to the lower end surface, and the upper end surface includes multiple step surfaces with different heights from the lower end surface. The mounting member is detachably assembled to the bracket body for bearing the camera. The mounting member is selectively assembled on the step surfaces with different heights, so as to replaceably assemble at least two cameras with different body heights to the bracket body.