US 12,321,085 B2
Submersible camera for underwater vehicles
Jiajer Ho, La Jolla, CA (US); Brandon Stevens, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US); Warren Chang, San Diego, CA (US); and Benjamin Stirling, Poway, CA (US)
Assigned to Deepwater Exploration, Inc., La Jolla, CA (US)
Filed by DeepWater Exploration, Inc., La Jolla, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/136,224.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/334,108, filed on Apr. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0341750 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G03B 17/08 (2021.01); G03B 17/56 (2021.01); G02B 7/02 (2021.01)
CPC G03B 17/08 (2013.01) [G03B 17/561 (2013.01); G02B 7/022 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A submersible camera comprising:
a housing assembly that comprises
a housing cone,
a transparent lens dome, and
a sealing ring between a radially outward facing circumferential edge of the lens dome and a radially inward facing surface of the housing cone, wherein the sealing ring is annular around a longitudinal axis of the submersible camera, and wherein the sealing ring completely overlaps and surrounds the circumferential edge of the lens dome from a front side of the lens dome to a rear side of the lens dome; and
an imaging assembly positioned within an interior cavity of the housing assembly, wherein the imaging assembly comprises
a printed circuit board,
a lens holder fastened to one side of the printed circuit board facing the lens dome, and
a lens mounted in the lens holder.