JP2009090767A - Arrangement structure and mounting structure of rear view camera for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an arrangement structure and a mounting structure for a vehicle for visually recognizing a rear view of a vehicle, in which there is no restriction in a region where a rear view can be secured, and the number of processing steps can be reduced to improve the merchantability.
A rear viewing camera is provided on a hollow bolt for mounting a license plate of a vehicle.
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Description

  The present invention relates to an arrangement structure and a mounting structure of a vehicle rear view camera.

Some vehicles have a rear view camera for the vehicle on the tailgate to obtain a sufficient rear view. This vehicle rear-view camera confirms the rear view, particularly the rear of the vehicle, directly below the rear part of the vehicle body, which is a blind spot from the driver's seat. For this reason, in order to provide the tailgate, there is one in which a vehicle rear view camera is provided inside the license plate garnish (see Patent Document 1).
JP 2005-178441 A

However, in the above prior art, since the vehicle rear view camera is disposed inside the license plate garnish, there is a problem that a region in which the rear view can be secured is restricted and the mounting operation is difficult.
On the other hand, it is conceivable to fix the vehicle rear-view camera directly on the rear surface of the tailgate. However, it is necessary to drill holes in the vehicle body panel, which increases the number of processing steps, and the vehicle rear-view camera is visible from the outside. There is a problem in that the product quality is lost.

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an arrangement structure and a mounting structure for a vehicle for visually confirming a rear of a vehicle, in which there is no restriction in a region where a rear field of view can be secured, and the number of processing steps can be reduced and the merchantability can be improved.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 is a fixing portion (for example, the hollow bolt 10 or the bolt hole 40 in the embodiment) for mounting a license plate (for example, the license plate 4 in the embodiment) of the vehicle. ) Is provided with a rear viewing camera (for example, the camera 11 in the embodiment).
By comprising in this way, it can fix to the position which does not obstruct a visual field by providing the camera for backward visual recognition in the fixing part of the license plate which can be visually recognized reliably from back. In addition, it is not necessary to perform special hole processing for mounting the camera on the body panel. Then, if the license plate is attached, a camera for rearward viewing can be attached.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, a recessed portion (for example, the recessed portion 16 in the embodiment) is provided in a fixing member (for example, the hollow bolt 10 in the embodiment) for mounting the license plate of the vehicle, and the rear view is provided in the recessed portion. The camera is housed.
With this configuration, the rear viewing camera housed in the recess does not protrude outside and is protected by the fixing member.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the camera includes an image sensor body (for example, the image sensor body 21 in the embodiment) and a cap body (for example, the cap body 22 in the embodiment) that detachably covers the fixing member. The cap body has a wide-angle lens (for example, the wide-angle lens 26 in the embodiment).
By comprising in this way, a cap body can be replaced | exchanged while the penetration of dust and rain water to an inside can be prevented with a cap body.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a fixing member for mounting a license plate of a vehicle is constituted by a hollow bolt, a concave portion is formed in the head of the hollow bolt, and a camera for rearward viewing is provided in the concave portion. The license plate is attached with the hollow bolt, and a cap body having a wide-angle lens is attached to the head of the hollow bolt.

According to the first and fourth aspects of the present invention, the camera for visually recognizing the rear is provided at the fixing portion or the fixing member of the license plate that can be surely visually recognized from the rear, so that the view is not obstructed. Therefore, the rear view can be secured without restriction.
In addition, since it is not necessary to drill holes in the vehicle body panel for mounting the camera for visually recognizing the rear, it is possible to reduce the number of processing steps.
If the license plate is attached, the camera for rearward viewing can be attached, so that the number of work steps can be reduced.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the first aspect, the camera for rearward viewing accommodated in the recess does not protrude to the outside, so that there is an effect that the merchantability can be improved. Moreover, since it is protected by the fixing member, it is easy to handle and can be prevented from being damaged during a rear collision.
According to the third aspect of the present invention, the cap body can prevent dust and rainwater from entering the interior, so that the reliability can be improved and the lens characteristics can be changed such as a wide angle change by replacing the cap body. High performance can be demonstrated.

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, a tailgate 1 is supported at the rear of the vehicle body so as to be opened and closed. The upper half of the tailgate 1 is composed of a rear glass 2, and the lower half is composed of a gate panel 3. At the center in the vehicle width direction of the gate panel 3 and at the lower part in the vertical direction, a mounting portion 5 of the license plate 4 is recessed toward the vehicle interior side, and the license plate 4 is mounted here.
The left side of the upper corner portion of the license plate 4 is fixed by a mounting bolt 7, and the right side of the upper corner portion of the license plate is fixed by a hollow bolt 10.
As shown in FIG. 2, the hollow bolt 10 is provided with a camera 11 for visually recognizing the rear.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the gate panel 3 has a mounting hole 12 at a position corresponding to the mounting portion of the hollow bolt 10, and a nut 13 into which the hollow bolt 10 is screwed is embedded and fixed. .
The hollow bolt 10 is composed of a hexagonal head portion 14 and a screw portion 15. The head portion 14 is formed with a recess 16 from the outer surface, and the screw portion 15 has a cylindrical shape in which a hollow portion 17 is formed. Here, the screw portion 15 has a length such that an end portion protrudes from the gate panel 3, and a cap 18 is attached to the end portion of the screw portion 15. An insertion hole 20 for a harness 19 described later is formed in the bottom wall 29 of the cap 18. Here, the cap 18 may be of a type that is screwed into the screw part 15 or of a type that is fitted to the screw part 15.

The rear viewing camera 11 is accommodated in the recess 16 of the head 14 of the hollow bolt 10 so as not to protrude from the head 14. The camera 11 is formed in a cylindrical shape, and includes an image pickup device body 21 and a cap body 22 that detachably covers the head 14 of the hollow bolt 10.
The cap body 22 includes an inner wall portion 23 fitted to the head portion 14 of the hollow bolt 10, a cylindrical outer wall portion 24, and a transparent upper wall 25. The upper wall 25 includes a wide-angle lens 26. Here, the cap body 22 is provided with a mounting allowance so that water, dust and the like do not enter between the head 14 of the hollow bolt 10 and the head 14 of the hollow bolt 10.
The wide-angle lens 26 has a viewing angle and an optical axis for ensuring a desired rear field of view. The entire upper wall 25 may be configured with a wide-angle lens, or only the portion corresponding to the concave portion 16 of the upper wall 25 may be configured with the wide-angle lens 26.

  A hole 28 is formed in the bottom wall 27 of the concave portion 16 of the hollow bolt 10 to pull out the harness 19 of the image sensor body 21 of the camera 11 to the vehicle interior side. In the harness 19, a connector 30 is attached to an end portion drawn out from the hole 28 in the bottom wall 27 of the recess 16 and the insertion hole 20 in the bottom wall 29 of the cap 18.

  According to the above embodiment, the license plate 4 is set on the mounting portion 5 of the tailgate 1, the mounting bolt 7 is tightened on the left side of the upper corner portion of the license plate 4, and the hollow bolt 10 is tightened on the right side of the upper corner portion. By attaching the cap 18 to the screw portion 15 of the hollow bolt 10 from the vehicle interior side and connecting the harness 19 to a vehicle interior side connector (not shown), the rear-view camera 11 can be attached.

Therefore, paying attention to the bolt for fixing the license plate 4 that is required to be surely visually recognized from the rear, this is used as the hollow bolt 10, and the camera 11 for visually recognizing the rear is provided on the hollow bolt 10. Can be fixed at a position where there is no obstacle to the view, and the rear view can be secured without restriction.
In addition, since the mounting hole 12 of the license plate 4 is effectively used, it is not necessary to perform a hole processing for the camera 11 for rearward viewing on the gate panel 3 of the tailgate 1, so that the number of processing steps can be reduced.

If the license plate 4 is attached, the rear view camera 11 can be attached, so that the number of work steps can be reduced.
Since the camera 11 for visually recognizing backwards accommodated in the recess 16 of the hollow bolt 10 does not protrude outside, the merchantability can be improved.
In addition, the rear viewing camera 11 is protected by the head 14 of the hollow bolt 10 so that it can be easily handled during manufacture and can be prevented from being damaged during a rear collision.

Furthermore, since the cap body 22 that covers the head 14 of the hollow bolt 10 can prevent dust and rainwater from entering the recess 16, the image pickup device body 21 of the camera 11 for rearward viewing is exposed to dust and rainwater. Reliability is improved without any problems.
And since the cap body 22 can be replaced | exchanged easily, if the cap body 22 is replaced | exchanged according to a vehicle model, the high versatility which can change lens characteristics, such as a change of a wide angle, can be exhibited.

  In addition, this invention is not restricted to the said embodiment, For example, after forming the hollow bolt 10 and a camera integrally, it can also comprise so that it may attach to the bolt hole 40 (refer FIG. 3). Further, the present invention is not limited to the tailgate 1 and can be applied to the case where the license plate 4 is attached to the bumper as long as the license plate 4 is attached to the vehicle body member provided at the rear of the vehicle body. Then, the case where the tightening portion of the upper corner portion on the right side when viewed from the rear is the hollow bolt 10 and the camera 11 for rearward viewing is attached thereto has been described, but the tightening portion of the upper corner portion on the left side is attached to the camera 11. It may be a target. Further, both the left and right tightening portions may be attached to the camera 11.

1 is a rear view of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a principal part enlarged view of FIG. It is sectional drawing which follows the AA line of FIG. FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG. 2.

Explanation of symbols

4 License plate 10 Hollow bolt (fixing member)
11 Camera 16 Recessed part 21 Image sensor body 22 Cap body 26 Wide angle lens 40 Bolt hole (fixed part)

Claims (4)

  An arrangement structure for a vehicle for visually recognizing a rear of a vehicle, characterized in that a camera for visually recognizing a rear is provided in a fixing portion for attaching a license plate of the vehicle.   An arrangement structure of a vehicle rear-viewing camera, wherein a recessed member is provided in a fixing member for mounting a license plate of a vehicle, and a rear-viewing camera is accommodated in the recess.   The vehicle rear-view camera arrangement structure according to claim 2, wherein the camera includes an image pickup device body and a cap body that detachably covers the fixing member, and the cap body includes a wide-angle lens. .   A fixing member for mounting a license plate of a vehicle is constituted by a hollow bolt, a recess is formed in the head of the hollow bolt, a camera for visually recognizing rearward is provided in the recess, and the license plate is mounted by the hollow bolt. A mounting structure for a vehicle rear-view camera, wherein a cap body having a wide-angle lens is attached to the head of the hollow bolt.

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