US 11,993,210 B2
In-vehicle camera fixing structure and casing attaching method
Yasushi Maeda, Toyota (JP); Kazuhiro Kawamoto, Toyota (JP); Keiichiro Ito, Toyota (JP); Keiji Onodera, Tokyo (JP); Satoshi Hasegawa, Tokyo (JP); Kouki Tsukui, Tokyo (JP); Keirai Jyou, Tokyo (JP); and Daisuke Kanou, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to KOJIMA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, Toyota (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Kojima Industries Corporation, Toyota (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/490,440.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-167622 (JP), filed on Oct. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0105879 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. B60R 11/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 11/04 (2013.01) 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An in-vehicle camera fixing structure comprising:
a casing that supports an in-vehicle camera; and
a bracket that holds the casing below, wherein
the casing includes
a middle casing and a side casing,
a fulcrum rod that protrudes forward, and
a shaft that is supported above the casing, protrudes toward a center of the casing in a lateral direction, overlapping the middle casing and spaced apart from an upper surface of the middle casing in a thickness direction perpendicular to the lateral direction, and
the bracket includes
a fulcrum support structure that swingably supports the fulcrum rod,
an inclined surface structure that guides the shaft forward and guides the shaft toward the bracket when the casing faces forward and the casing is attached to the bracket, and
a shaft fixing structure that forms the inclined surface structure and fixes the shaft in front of the inclined surface structure.