Swivel Camera Mount With Concealed Cable Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge in installing cameras in medical imaging environments is the need for flexibility in spatial positioning to orient the camera's field of view effectively, while also ensuring that cables are routed in a concealed and protected manner, avoiding the complexity of existing building automation and clinical equipment installations.
Innovation Solution
A mounting device with a camera-end part, swivel bearing, locking mechanism, adapter, and cable routing region, allowing for swiveling movements and secure cable management, thereby enabling flexible camera orientation and concealed cable routing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the camera is mounted with multiple swivel degrees of freedom to achieve flexible spatial positioning, then the orientation flexibility is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting device is divided into multiple independently swivelable segments: the camera-end part can swivel relative to the camera-end adapter, and the camera-end adapter can swivel relative to the support structure-end adapter. Each segment has its own swivel bearing and locking mechanism, allowing complex orientation to be achieved through composition of simpler individual movements.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting device employs dynamic swivel joints with locking mechanisms that allow the system to transition between mobile (adjustment) and fixed (operation) states. The swivel bearings enable movement when unlocked, and the locking mechanisms secure the desired position during use, providing both flexibility and stability.
2Shape
If cables are routed through the mounting device structure to achieve concealed routing, then the aesthetic appearance is improved, but the risk of cable pinching during swivel movements increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cable routing region is designed to extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the adapter swivel axis. This dimensional arrangement ensures that cables routed through the cable routing region do not intersect with the plane of swivel movement, eliminating the risk of pinching while maintaining concealed routing through the mounting device structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The cable routing region acts as an intermediary pathway that mediates between the need for concealed cable routing and the mechanical swivel movements. By providing a dedicated routed path that is spatially separated from the swivel mechanism, the system achieves both aesthetic cable management and reliable cable protection.
3Reliability
If the adapter swivel bearing and locking mechanism are positioned away from the cable routing region, then the cable protection is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter swivel bearing and locking mechanism are extracted from the cable routing region and positioned in separate locations. This spatial separation removes the sources of potential cable pinching from the cable pathway, improving reliability while the modular nature of the extracted components minimizes the increase in overall device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A camera-end part receives a camera and is mounted to swivel around a camera-end swivel axis via a camera-end swivel bearing when a camera-end locking mechanism is undone. A camera-end adapter is mounted to swivel around an adapter swivel axis via an adapter swivel bearing when an adapter locking mechanism is undone. A cable routing region extends along a longitudinal line of the cable routing region through a support structure-end adapter and the camera-end adapter into a camera-end part. The longitudinal line of the cable routing region runs substantially perpendicular to the adapter swivel axis in the region of the adapter swivel axis. The adapter swivel bearing and the adapter locking mechanism are arranged outside the cable routing region.