US 12,262,103 B2
Vehicular camera with enhanced EMI shielding
Nazar F. Bally, Sterling Heights, MI (US); James L Smith, Washington, MI (US); and Jonathan D. Conger, Huntington Woods, MI (US)
Assigned to Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed by Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/049,037.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/262,980, filed on Oct. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0128640 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/51 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/51 (2023.01) 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular camera assembly, the vehicular camera assembly comprising:
a printed circuit board;
a metallic shield element at least partially enclosing the printed circuit board;
a housing at least partially enclosing the metallic shield element, wherein the housing comprises a front housing portion accommodating a lens;
wherein an imager is disposed at the printed circuit board, and wherein the imager is optically aligned with the lens;
an electrical connector for electrically connecting an electrical connecting element of the printed circuit board to a wire harness of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular camera assembly, wherein the electrical connector protrudes through an aperture in the metallic shield element and the housing to electrically connect with the wire harness of the equipped vehicle;
wherein the metallic shield element comprises at least one seam, each respective seam of the at least one seam comprising (i) a respective gap between opposing edge regions of the metallic shield element and (ii) a respective overlapping tab extending from one of the opposing edge regions that at least partially closes the respective seam;
wherein the at least one seam partitions the metallic shield element into at least a first portion and a second portion, and wherein the first portion and the second portion comprise separate components, and wherein the respective overlapping tab of the first portion overlaps at least a portion of the second portion to at least partially secure the first portion relative to the second portion; and
wherein the housing and the metallic shield element are in contact.