US 12,252,075 B2
System for driving digital side mirror for vehicles
Nak Kyoung Kong, Seongnam-Si (KR); Ki Hong Lee, Seoul (KR); Dae Hee Lee, Incheon (KR); Jong Min Park, Seoul (KR); Won Sik Hong, Incheon (KR); Houng Young Shin, Incheon (KR); Chang Hwan Lim, Seoul (KR); Sung Min Cho, Siheung-Si (KR); and Baek Joon Kwon, Suwon-Si (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR); and SMR Automotive Modules Korea Ltd., Cheongju-si (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR); and SMR Automotive Modules Korea Ltd., Cheongju-si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/085,040.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0070474 (KR), filed on Jun. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0398950 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 11/04 (2006.01); H04N 23/51 (2023.01); B60Q 1/52 (2006.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01); B60R 1/25 (2022.01); B60R 1/26 (2022.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 11/04 (2013.01) [H04N 23/51 (2023.01); B60Q 1/52 (2013.01); B60Q 5/005 (2013.01); B60R 1/25 (2022.01); B60R 1/26 (2022.01); B60R 2011/0082 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0092 (2013.01); B60R 2300/8046 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for driving a digital side mirror for a vehicle, the system comprising:
a housing mounted to a panel of the vehicle;
a guide pipe extending from the housing to protrude outside the panel of the vehicle;
a moving case inserted into the housing and the guide pipe to be slidably movable forward and backward directions;
a first camera mounted in the moving case to photograph an area surrounding a rear and sides of the vehicle; and
a driving device mounted to the housing and engaged to the moving case to linearly move the moving case into or out of the guide pipe,
wherein the guide pipe is provided with a transparent lens to allow the first camera to photograph the area surrounding the rear and the sides of the vehicle through the transparent lens when the moving case is received in the guide pipe, and
wherein the transparent lens is mounted on a rear surface of the guide pipe to be aligned with a lens of the first camera in a forward-backward direction to enable the first camera to photograph the area surrounding the rear and the sides in a state in which the moving case is moved backwards and received in the guide pipe.