US 12,228,784 B2
Protective assembly and imaging equipment set
Chi-Kuang Sun, Taipei (TW); Pei-Jhe Wu, Taipei (TW); Ying-Ting Huang, Taipei (TW); and Hsiao-Chieh Tseng, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei (TW)
Filed by NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei (TW)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/563,313.
Claims priority of application No. 110135484 (TW), filed on Sep. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0094096 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 7/02 (2021.01)
CPC G02B 7/02 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A protective assembly for accommodating an imaging lens, the protective assembly comprising:
a housing including a tube body segment and a bottom segment that is connected to the tube body segment,
wherein the bottom segment has a curved portion formed on a periphery thereof, and an accommodating space is defined by the housing to receive a liquid therein for enabling the imaging lens to operate,
wherein the imaging lens is movably disposed in the accommodating space, and an inner side of the curved portion has an inclined surface that is configured to abut against a shell of the imaging lens,
wherein the bottom segment has a stepped groove, and a through hole is defined by the stepped groove formed through the bottom segment;
a transparent partition disposed on the bottom segment of the housing and tightly engaged within the through hole; and
an adhesive member having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface of the adhesive member is fixed onto a bottom surface of the housing, and the outer surface of the adhesive member is sticky, wherein the outer surface of the adhesive member is flush with a bottom surface of the transparent partition, so that the adhesive member laterally surrounds the transparent partition.