US 12,445,703 B2
Vehicular camera module
Rene Dreiocker, Rochester Hills, MI (US); Steven V. Byrne, Goodrich, MI (US); Jonathan D. Conger, Huntington Woods, MI (US); Garret F. Achenbach, Rochester Hills, MI (US); and Andreas Weis, Gedern (DE)
Assigned to Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed by Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/162,767.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/267,443, filed on Feb. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0247275 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/51 (2023.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/55 (2023.01) [H04N 23/51 (2023.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular camera module, the vehicular camera module comprising:
a camera housing configured for mounting at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular camera module, the camera housing including a front housing portion and a rear housing portion;
an imager printed circuit board having a first side and a second side separated from the first side by a thickness of the imager printed circuit board, wherein an imager is disposed at the first side of the imager printed circuit board;
a lens barrel accommodating a lens, wherein the lens barrel is attached at the front housing portion and extends through an aperture of the front housing portion;
wherein, with the imager aligned with the lens, the imager printed circuit board is adhesively attached at an inner end of the lens barrel;
a connector printed circuit board comprising an electrical connector configured to electrically connect the vehicular camera module to an electrical connector of the vehicle when the camera housing is mounted at the in-cabin side of the windshield of the vehicle;
wherein the connector printed circuit board is attached at the front housing portion;
wherein, with the lens barrel and the connector printed circuit board attached at the front housing portion, the connector printed circuit board is spaced from the imager printed circuit board and no part of the connector printed circuit board overlaps any part of the imager printed circuit board;
wherein circuitry of the imager printed circuit board is electrically connected to circuitry of the connector printed circuit board via a flexible electrical connector;
wherein the rear housing portion includes a receiving portion configured to receive the electrical connector of the connector printed circuit board when the front housing portion, with the lens barrel and connector printed circuit board attached at the front housing portion, is attached at the rear housing portion during assembly of the vehicular camera module;
wherein, with the lens barrel and the connector printed circuit board attached at the front housing portion, the imager printed circuit board is parallel to the connector printed circuit board; and
wherein, with the lens barrel and the connector printed circuit board attached at the front housing portion, the imager printed circuit board and the connector printed circuit board are spaced apart in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the lens barrel.