US 11,780,379 B2
Add-on part having an integrated camera module
Luc-Henry Blanche, Hagen (DE); Laurent Friocourt, Stuttgart (DE); Marcus Guldan, Uhingen (DE); and Clément Mosnier, Winnenden (DE)
Assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE, Courbevoie (FR)
Appl. No. 16/758,656
Filed by SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE, Courbevoie (FR)
PCT Filed Oct. 18, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/078480
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 29, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/081315, PCT Pub. Date May 2, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 17198521 (EP), filed on Oct. 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0250555 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. B60R 11/00 (2006.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); B29C 45/16 (2006.01); B29L 31/34 (2006.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01)
CPC B60R 11/04 (2013.01) [H04N 23/57 (2023.01); B29C 45/16 (2013.01); B29L 2031/3481 (2013.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle add-on part having an integrated camera module, comprising:
a cover with an outer side and an inner side, wherein the cover consists, at least in sections, of a transparent thermoplastic material;
a carrier part that is arranged on the inner side of the cover and in which a camera module is arranged;
wherein the cover has, on the inner side, a local thickening and/or a local thinning of the transparent thermoplastic material;
and wherein the camera module includes at least one camera lens and is arranged in the carrier part such that the at least one camera lens is arranged directly opposite the local thickening and/or the local thinning, said carrier part being made of a material that is absent between the at least one camera lens and a region of the local thickening and/or the local thinning that is directly opposite the at least one camera lens such that said region of the local thickening and/or the local thinning terminates in a materially integral manner or substantially flush with the at least one camera lens.