US 11,733,590 B1
Image capturing device
Yung-Tai Pan, Taipei (TW); Yi-Ping Hsieh, Taipei (TW); Chun-Chieh Yeh, Taipei (TW); and Yu-Cheng Ma, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD., Taipei (TW)
Filed by PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD., Taipei (TW)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/659,335.
Claims priority of application No. 111107052 (TW), filed on Feb. 25, 2022.
Int. Cl. G03B 17/12 (2021.01)
CPC G03B 17/12 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image capturing device, comprising:
a casing;
a camera assembly disposed within the casing, wherein a portion of the camera assembly is exposed outside the casing;
an adjustment element connected with the camera assembly, and rotatable relative to the casing, wherein as the adjustment element is rotated, the camera assembly is correspondingly rotated, so that the camera assembly is switchable between a horizontal photographing mode and a vertical photographing mode, wherein the adjustment element comprises a contacting structure;
a first stopping structure arranged between the casing and the adjustment element; and
a second stopping structure arranged between the casing and the adjustment element, wherein the first stopping structure and the second stopping structure are located at different positions,
wherein when the camera assembly is rotated with the adjustment element and the camera assembly is switched from the vertical photographing mode to the horizontal photographing mode, the contacting structure is positioned at the first stopping structure, wherein when the camera assembly is rotated with the adjustment element and the camera assembly is switched from the horizontal photographing mode to the vertical photographing mode, the contacting structure is positioned at the second stopping structure;
wherein the camera assembly comprises a shell member and a lens module, and the lens module is installed within the shell member, wherein the shell member has a front surface and a first hollow portion, and the first hollow portion is formed in the front surface of the shell member, wherein the lens module comprises a lens unit, a pedestal and a circuit board, wherein the pedestal is arranged between the lens unit and the circuit board, the circuit board is fixed on the shell member, and the lens unit is penetrated through the first hollow portion and exposed outside the shell member; and
wherein the casing comprises a front cover and a rear cover, and the front cover has a second hollow portion, wherein the camera assembly is arranged between the front cover and the rear cover, and the lens unit of the lens module and the front surface of the shell member are exposed outside the second hollow portion.