Windshield Camera Bracket With Slit-Adjusted Ventilation Gap
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional on-board device brackets face challenges in mounting due to deformation and dimensional variations of windshields, leading to inadequate ventilation gaps for camera lenses, which affects mist prevention and proper installation.
Innovation Solution
An on-board-device bracket with a slit-based relative displacement mechanism allows the front portion to be independently bonded and displaced from the bracket body, providing a flexible mounting solution that is not dependent on the bracket's displacement, ensuring appropriate alignment and ventilation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional bracket mounting structure is used, then the bracket can be mounted to the windshield, but the gap for ventilation is not appropriate due to deformation and dimensional variation
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket is divided into a front portion and a bracket body portion that can displace relative to each other. The front portion includes a front bonding portion bonded to the windshield, while the bracket body portion includes a body bonding portion bonded to the windshield. This segmentation allows each portion to independently accommodate deformation and dimensional variation of the windshield, ensuring both mounting reliability and appropriate gap dimensions for ventilation.
2Ease of manufacture
If the bracket is rigidly mounted to the windshield, then mounting is simplified, but ventilation gap control becomes impossible due to windshield deformation
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket incorporates a relative displacement mechanism between the front portion and the bracket body portion, allowing dynamic adjustment. This enables the bracket to adapt to windshield deformation while maintaining proper ventilation gaps, combining mounting simplicity with adaptability to varying windshield conditions.
3Device complexity
If a single bonding structure is used, then the bracket structure is simplified, but independent adjustment of the front portion is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket is segmented into distinct portions with separate bonding capabilities. The front portion has a front bonding portion for independent bonding to the windshield, while the bracket body portion has a body bonding portion. This segmentation enables independent alignment and adjustment of the front portion to ensure proper ventilation gap control, while maintaining reasonable structural complexity.
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AI summary
There is provided an on-board-device bracket capable of appropriately mounting a front portion of an imaging means with respect to a windshield. An on-board-device bracket 10 is formed by a bracket body portion 11 and a front portion 16 connected to a front part of a center portion of the bracket body portion 11. Slits 17 along the front portion 16 are formed between the front portion 16 and the bracket body portion 11. The front portion 16 includes, at the front end thereof, a front bonding portion. The front portion 16 is bent by the slits 17 individually from the bracket body portion 11 and displaced with respect to a windshield 1.