JPH09240370A - Vehicle rear view monitoring camera device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable this monitoring camera to be installed without changing a design of a rear part of a vehicle. SOLUTION: Before installing a garnish 5 into a detent 6 for fixing an outer panel 3, an outside eaves 9 of one lamp house is formed with an opening 16 and then a casing 15 for a rear view monitoring camera 14 is fixed to a bracket 17 arranged at the eaves 9. When the garnish 5 is applied to the fixing detent 6, the rear monitoring camera 14 directs a rear and lower section of the vehicle.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a camera for monitoring the rear of a vehicle.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 5-338492 discloses a movable vehicle-mounted camera in which a housing of a rear monitoring camera is movably attached to an image pickup position and a storage position on a rear body of a vehicle and a garnish is attached to the housing. A device is disclosed.

[0003]

However, the movable vehicle-mounted camera device described above is one in which a dedicated garnish is attached to the housing attached to the rear body and protruding. For this reason, only the camera device part stands out and stands out,
The sense of unity in the design at the rear of the vehicle is lost. In addition, it is necessary to prepare a dedicated garnish. In order to secure a sense of unity in the design, there is a camera device housed in the rear body that is projected at the time of image capturing, but it is necessary to secure a space in the body for providing a movable mechanism. The present invention has been made in view of the above, and it is possible to change the design of the vehicle rear portion by fixing the rear monitoring camera to the garnish that is attached to the mounting concave portion of the vehicle rear portion and by attaching the rear monitoring camera to the mounting concave portion. It is an object of the present invention to provide a rear monitoring camera device for a vehicle that can be mounted without a camera.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a rear monitoring camera device for a vehicle according to the present invention. The garnish includes a license plate and a lamp house for illuminating the license plate. The rear monitoring camera is fixed to the rear side of the vehicle, and the rear side monitoring camera is mounted in the space formed between the garnish and the rear body of the vehicle by attaching the rear monitoring camera to the mounting recess at the rear of the vehicle. Is characterized by.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a rear monitoring camera device for a vehicle according to the first aspect of the present invention.
A water-repellent treatment is applied to the surface of the lens protection glass of the rear monitoring camera.

[0006]

In the vehicle rear monitoring camera system according to the first aspect of the present invention, since the lamp house for illuminating the license plate is incorporated in the garnish, the rear part of the vehicle other than the lamp house is provided. A space is formed between the rear body and the mounting body by being attached to the mounting recess. Therefore, if the rear monitoring camera is mounted in this space, the camera portion does not project and stand out, so that the design of the rear portion of the vehicle does not change and the sense of unity is not impaired. Further, since the rear monitoring camera can be fixed to the back surface of the garnish in advance, the work is simple and easy, the rear monitoring camera can be mounted with high accuracy, and the angle adjustment after mounting is hardly required. The rear monitoring camera device can be mounted on the body only by attaching the garnish to the mounting recess, which has the effect of improving work efficiency.

Further, in the rear monitoring camera device for a vehicle according to the first aspect, since the surface of the lens protection glass of the rear monitoring camera is subjected to water repellent treatment, rainwater or dirty water rolled up during traveling adheres. However, it does not interfere with the rear field of view to be monitored because it falls into a polka dot and falls off.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. 1 is a perspective view of the rear portion of the vehicle, FIG. 2 is a front view of the garnish 5, and FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line AA in FIG. The outer panel 3 of the rear door 2 of the vehicle 1 has a mounting recess 6 for mounting a garnish 5 having a license plate 4 mounted substantially below the center thereof.
Are formed.

The garnish 5 has a concave mounting surface 7 for the license plate 4, and a flange portion 8 is bent around the mounting surface 7. The flange portion 8 is continuous with the curved surface of the outer panel 3 of the rear door 2 so as to have a sense of unity in design. An eaves portion 9 extending rearward of the vehicle 1 is formed on the flange portion 8 above the mounting surface 7. The rear end of the eaves portion 9 is bent back upward so as to be continuous with the outer panel 3.

The eaves 9 of the garnish 5 has an outside handle 10 for opening the rear door 2 at the center thereof. On both sides of the outside handle 10, a lamp house 12 having a lamp 11 for illuminating the night license plate 4 is incorporated. And
When the garnish 5 is attached to the mounting recess 6 of the outer panel 3, the eaves 9 on both sides of the lamp house 12 are
A space 13 is formed between the mounting recess 6 and the mounting recess 6.

In the case of the present invention, the rear monitoring camera 14 is mounted in the space 13. Therefore, before the garnish 5 is attached to the mounting recess 6, an opening 16 is formed in the eave portion 9 of the outer portion of the one lamp house 12, and the rear monitoring camera is mounted on the bracket 17 provided in the eave portion 9. The housing 15 of 14 is fixed. When the garnish 5 is attached to the mounting recess 6, the rear monitoring camera 14 points toward the rear lower side of the vehicle 1 and has a visual range S as shown in FIG.

An elastic sealing material 18 is wound around the outer periphery of the housing 15 of the rear monitoring camera 14 to prevent rainwater, washing water, etc. from entering through the opening 16. In the housing 15,
The lens protection glass 15a of the rear monitoring camera 14 is watertightly fitted. The wire harness 19 extending from the housing 15 of the rear monitoring camera 14 is inserted into the outer panel 3 through an insertion hole 20 formed in the mounting recess 6 of the outer panel 3. Then, the grommet 21 is fitted into the insertion hole 20 to ensure watertightness. The surface of the lens protection glass 15a fitted in the housing 15 is subjected to a water repellent treatment.

A rear monitoring camera device for a vehicle having the above structure is
Since the rear monitoring camera 14 is fixed to the bracket 17 provided on the eaves 9 of the garnish 5 before it is attached to the mounting recess 6 of the outer panel 3, the work is easy and the mounting angle accuracy is improved. Can be secured. The rear surveillance camera device can be mounted on the rear door 2 simply and easily by mounting the garnish 5 on the mounting recess 6.

Further, since the conventional garnish 5 can be used as it is, the design sense of the rear door 2 of the vehicle 1 is not impaired. Since the outer panel 3 of the rear door 1 is only provided with the insertion hole 20 for the wire harness 19 of the rear monitoring camera 14, it has an advantage that a countermeasure against water entering can be easily performed by fitting the grommet 21 or the like.

The surface of the lens protection glass 15a fitted in the housing 15 of the rear monitoring camera 14 is treated to be water repellent. Therefore, even if rainwater or sewage that is rolled up during traveling adheres, it does not dry as it is and drops as a polka dot, so that the rear view to be monitored is not obstructed. Instead of the lens protection glass 15a,
A transparent synthetic resin plate can also be used.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a rear portion of a vehicle.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the garnish 5;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line AA in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Vehicle 2 ... Rear door 3 ... Outer panel 4 ... License plate 5 ... Garnish 6 ... Mounting recess 12 ... Lamp house 13 ... Space 14 ... Rear Surveillance camera 15a ... Lens protection glass

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Tatsuyuki Kamiya 100 Kanayama, Ichiriyama-cho, Kariya city, Aichi Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd. (72) Ken Uemura 395, Kaminobun, Kokubun-shi, Kagoshima 1 Stock company Toyota Body Research Institute

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A rear monitoring camera is fixed to a garnish incorporating a license plate and a lamp house for illuminating the license plate, and the rear monitoring camera is attached to a mounting recess at the rear of the vehicle, whereby the garnish and the rear body of the vehicle. A rear monitoring camera device for a vehicle, wherein the rear monitoring camera is mounted in a space formed between the rear monitoring camera and the rear monitoring camera. 2. The rear monitoring camera device for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the surface of the lens protection glass of the rear monitoring camera is subjected to a water repellent treatment.