CN107426481B

CN107426481B - Terminal device, camera assembly and housing assembly

Info

Publication number: CN107426481B
Application number: CN201710886417.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 曾元清
Original assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2017-09-26
Filing date: 2017-09-26
Publication date: 2020-06-05
Anticipated expiration: 2037-09-26
Also published as: CN107426481A

Abstract

The application provides a terminal device, a camera assembly and a housing assembly, wherein the housing assembly comprises a rear shell and side frames, and the rear shell is connected with the side frames to protect the back and at least partial side faces of the terminal device; the rear shell is provided with a camera protection piece, the side frames are provided with through slotted holes, and the slotted holes are used for allowing inserted lenses to correspond to the camera protection piece so as to change the optical performance of the camera. According to the housing assembly for the terminal equipment, the side frame of the housing structure is provided with the slot for inserting the lens, and the inserted lens is positioned between the camera protection piece and the camera, so that the optical performance of the camera is changed; the lens replacing device is simple in structure, convenient to operate in the process of replacing the lens and good in market popularization value.

Description

Terminal device, camera assembly and housing assembly

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of terminal equipment with replaceable camera lens structures, in particular to terminal equipment, a camera assembly and a shell assembly.

Background

The work of shooing is as one of terminal equipment's such as cell-phone indispensable function, consequently all can be provided with the camera module on the terminal equipment, however the performance parameter of the camera module on the terminal equipment among the prior art is fixed, promptly: when the terminal device leaves the factory, various performance parameters of the camera module of the terminal device, including focal length, aperture size, pixels and the like, are already determined.

However, with the increase of the personalized demand of the user for the photographing performance of the terminal device, the performance of the camera module on the terminal device often needs to be improved or enhanced, and one method for solving the problem in the prior art is to hang a lens unit corresponding to the camera module on the outer side of the housing of the terminal device, but the disadvantage of this method is that: firstly, the cost is high, and the economy is poor; secondly, the externally-hung lens unit has a complex structure and a large volume, and is inconvenient to carry.

Disclosure of Invention

In one aspect, the present embodiment provides a housing assembly for a terminal device, where the housing assembly includes a rear housing and a side frame, and the rear housing is connected to the side frame to protect a back surface and at least a part of side surfaces of the terminal device; the rear shell is provided with a camera protection piece, the side frames are provided with through slotted holes, and the slotted holes are used for allowing inserted lenses to correspond to the camera protection piece so as to change the optical performance of the camera.

Another aspect of the embodiments of the present application further provides a camera assembly for a terminal device, where the camera assembly includes a camera, a lens, and a camera protection member; the camera protection piece is arranged on the rear shell; the camera is arranged corresponding to the camera protection piece, a gap is arranged between the camera and the camera protection piece, and the lens is inserted from a slotted hole in the side frame and is arranged between the camera protection piece and the camera so as to change the optical performance of the camera.

Further, an embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal device, where the terminal device includes the housing assembly described in any of the above embodiments and/or the camera assembly described in any of the above embodiments.

According to the housing assembly for the terminal equipment, the side frame of the housing structure is provided with the slot for inserting the lens, and the inserted lens is positioned between the camera protection piece and the camera, so that the optical performance of the camera is changed; the lens replacing device is simple in structure, convenient to operate in the process of replacing the lens and good in market popularization value.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of a housing assembly for a terminal device according to the present application;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of the housing assembly of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a top schematic view of the housing assembly of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the housing assembly of FIG. 1 with the lens inserted therein;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a process for inserting lenses;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural component diagram of an embodiment of a camera assembly;

FIG. 7 is a partial schematic structural view of another embodiment of the present housing assembly;

FIG. 8 is a partial schematic structural view of yet another embodiment of the present housing assembly;

FIG. 9 is a partial schematic structural view of yet another embodiment of the present housing assembly;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the structure of the lens of the embodiment of FIG. 4;

FIG. 11 is a schematic structural view of another embodiment of a lens;

FIG. 12 is a schematic view of a configuration of yet another embodiment of a lens;

FIG. 13 is a schematic structural view of yet another embodiment of a lens;

fig. 14 is a schematic front view of a structure of an embodiment of a terminal device according to the present application.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples. It is to be noted that the following examples are only illustrative of the present invention, and do not limit the scope of the present invention. Similarly, the following examples are only some but not all examples of the present invention, and all other examples obtained by those skilled in the art without any inventive work are within the scope of the present invention.

The terms "first", "second" and "third" in the present invention are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first," "second," or "third" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise. All directional indicators (such as up, down, left, right, front, and rear … …) in the embodiments of the present invention are only used to explain the relative positional relationship between the components, the movement, and the like in a specific posture (as shown in the drawings), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indicator is changed accordingly. Furthermore, the terms "include" and "have," as well as any variations thereof, are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those steps or elements listed, but may alternatively include other steps or elements not listed, or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Reference herein to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. It is explicitly and implicitly understood by one skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein can be combined with other embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2 together, fig. 1 is a schematic overall structural diagram of an embodiment of a housing assembly for a terminal device according to the present application, and fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a partial structure of the housing assembly in the embodiment of fig. 1. It should be noted that the terminal device referred to in this application includes a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a wearable device, and the like. The housing assembly in this embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a rear housing 110 and side bezels 120.

Specifically, the rear shell 110 is connected to the side frame 120 to protect the back and at least a portion of the side of the terminal device; in other words, the side frame 120 of the housing assembly in the embodiment of the present application is not necessarily a circumferential frame surrounding the entire terminal device in the illustration, and may be a part of the circumferential frame.

The rear case 110 is used for fixedly mounting the camera protection member 111, wherein the camera protection member 111 may also be a portion of the rear case 110, for example, when the rear case 110 is made of glass material as a whole, the camera protection member 111 may be an area of a screen printing as the camera protection member 111. In addition, the camera protector 111 may be a separate component, and may be fixedly mounted on the rear case 110. 112 in fig. 2 may be a flash.

In addition, the camera protection member 111 may also serve as a decoration and protrude from the outer surface of the rear housing 110, please refer to fig. 3, and fig. 3 is a schematic top structure diagram of the housing assembly in the embodiment of fig. 1.

The side frame 120 is provided with a through slot 121, and the slot 121 is used for passing through the inserted lens 130, so that the inserted lens 130 can correspond to the camera protection member 111, thereby changing the optical performance of the camera. Referring to fig. 4 and 5, fig. 4 is a schematic view of the housing assembly of fig. 1 after the lens is inserted, and fig. 5 is a schematic view of the lens inserting process. In the embodiment, the side frame 120 located at the top of the mobile terminal is provided with a slot 121.

Referring to fig. 3, the slot 121 on the side frame 120 is disposed on a side close to the rear housing 110, that is, the slot 121 is disposed on a side of the center line 101 of the side frame 120 biased to the rear housing 110 and corresponds to the gap 102 between the camera protection 111 and the camera 140, so as to ensure that the inserted lens 130 is located between the camera protection 111 and the camera 140.

Referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the camera module. The camera assembly comprises a camera 140, a lens 130 and a camera protection piece 111; the camera protection member is disposed on the rear case 110; the camera 140 is disposed corresponding to the camera protection member 111, and a gap 102 is disposed between the camera protection member 111, and the lens 130 is inserted from the slot 121 on the side frame 120 and disposed between the camera protection member 111 and the camera 140 to change the optical performance of the camera 140.

Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a partial schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of the housing assembly of the present application, which is different from the previous embodiment in that a slot 121 is disposed on a side frame 120 located at a side of the mobile terminal in the embodiment.

Further, please refer to fig. 8 and 9 together, in which fig. 8 is a partial structural schematic diagram of another embodiment of the housing assembly of the present application, and fig. 9 is a partial structural schematic diagram of another embodiment of the housing assembly of the present application. In the embodiment of fig. 8, the terminal device includes two cameras arranged in numerical order; correspondingly, the side frames 120 of the top and the side edges are provided with slot holes 121, and each slot hole 121 is inserted with a lens and is respectively arranged corresponding to one camera. While the two cameras in fig. 9 are arranged horizontally, the top side frame 120 may be provided with a slot 121 whose length corresponds to the width of the two cameras, and the detailed structure of the lens will be described in detail later.

Of course, in the embodiment of fig. 9, two slots 121 corresponding to one camera respectively may be disposed on the top side frame 120, or like fig. 8, slots 121 may be disposed on both the top and side frames 120.

In addition, in other embodiments, a plurality of cameras may be provided, and correspondingly, a plurality of slots 121 may be correspondingly provided on the side frame 120, and each slot 121 is not limited to only one lens, and may also be a structure in which a plurality of lenses stacked together are inserted into the same slot 121.

In addition, the camera module may further include a camera and a plurality of lenses, and the side frame 120 is provided with a plurality of slots 121, and each slot may be inserted into one or more lenses corresponding to the same camera. Within the understanding of those skilled in the art, no further details are given here.

Referring to fig. 10, fig. 10 is a schematic structural view of the lens in the embodiment of fig. 4, the lens 130 includes a connecting portion 131 and an optical portion 132 which are integrally formed, and the optical portion 132 is correspondingly disposed between the camera protection member 111 and the camera 140; the optic 132 is actually the optically active portion of the lens 130. The connecting portion 131 serves as a grip portion during insertion and extraction. Further, the connection portion 131 may further include a protrusion or a strip-shaped groove 1311 for allowing the connection portion 131 to be more easily held.

Referring to fig. 11 and 12, fig. 11 is a schematic structural view of another embodiment of a lens, and fig. 12 is a schematic structural view of another embodiment of a lens; the lens 130 in the embodiment of fig. 11 includes two connecting portions 131 and two circular optical portions 132, where the two optical portions 132 are respectively disposed corresponding to the two cameras, so that the lens 130 changes optical performance of the two cameras at the same time. The lenses in this embodiment may be vertically inserted from the top slot 121 in fig. 8.

Whereas the optic 132 in fig. 12 is racetrack shaped, the racetrack shaped optic 132 may correspond to both cameras at the same time. The lens 130 of fig. 12 can be inserted into the slot 121 of fig. 9.

Further, referring to fig. 13, fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of a lens, where the lens in the embodiment may have a structure corresponding to the dual cameras in the embodiment of fig. 8, and the lens may be inserted from a top slot 121 in the embodiment of fig. 8, that is, the slot 121 on the side frame 120 and the two cameras are arranged on the same line. A hollow-out area 1312 is disposed on the connecting portion 131 of the lens 130, the hollow-out area 1312 and the optical portion 132 are respectively disposed corresponding to the two cameras, that is, the hollow-out area 1312 corresponds to the camera located at the top in the embodiment of fig. 8, and the optical portion 132 corresponds to the camera located at the bottom in fig. 8. The lens in this embodiment can change the optical performance of only one camera (e.g., the camera at the bottom in fig. 8), and the hollow-out region 1312 corresponds to an escape region.

According to the shell component and the camera component provided by the embodiment of the application, the side frame of the shell structure is provided with the slotted hole for inserting the lens, and the inserted lens is positioned between the camera protection piece and the camera, so that the optical performance of the camera is changed; the lens replacing device is simple in structure, convenient to operate in the process of replacing the lens and good in market popularization value.

Further, an embodiment of the present application also provides a terminal device, please refer to fig. 14, where fig. 14 is a schematic structural front view of an embodiment of the terminal device of the present application, the terminal device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a wearable device, and the like, and the present embodiment illustrates a mobile phone as an example. The terminal device may include a screen 210, an operation key 220, a housing assembly 230 in the above embodiment, and a camera assembly (disposed inside the housing, and therefore not labeled). For the specific structure of the housing assembly 230 and the camera assembly, please refer to the related description in the above embodiments, and the description thereof is omitted here. The terminal equipment provided by the embodiment has the characteristics of simple structure and low cost of replaceable lenses, and the inserted lenses are positioned between the camera protection piece and the camera by arranging the slotted holes for inserting the lenses on the side frame of the shell structure of the terminal equipment.

The above description is only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent devices or equivalent processes performed by the present invention through the contents of the specification and the drawings, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A housing assembly for a terminal device, the housing assembly being part of the terminal device and comprising a rear housing and side frames, the rear housing being connected to the side frames for protection of a rear side and at least part of a side of the terminal device; the rear shell is provided with a camera protection piece, the side frames are provided with through slotted holes, and the slotted holes are used for allowing the inserted lenses to correspond to the camera protection piece through inserted lenses, so that the optical performance of the camera is changed, and the process of replacing the lenses by the shell component is convenient.

2. The housing assembly of claim 1, wherein the slot in the side bezel is located adjacent to a side of the rear housing and corresponds to a gap between a camera protection member and a camera to secure an inserted lens between the camera protection member and the camera.

3. The enclosure assembly of claim 2, wherein the slot is provided on a side frame at a top of the terminal device.

4. The housing assembly of claim 2, wherein the side rims include a plurality of slots, each slot adapted to receive one or more lenses.

5. A camera assembly for a terminal device, the camera assembly being part of the terminal device, the camera assembly comprising a camera, a lens and a camera protector; the camera protection piece is arranged on the rear shell; the camera corresponds the camera protection piece setting, and with be equipped with the clearance between the camera protection piece, the lens is inserted from the slotted hole on the side frame to locate between camera protection piece and the camera in order to change the optical property of camera, the process that the lens was changed to the subassembly of making a video recording is convenient.

6. The camera assembly of claim 5, wherein the camera assembly includes a camera and a plurality of lenses, and wherein the side frame defines a plurality of slots, each slot being configured to receive one or more lenses corresponding to the same camera.

7. The camera assembly of claim 5, wherein the lens comprises a connecting portion and an optical portion, and the optical portion is correspondingly disposed between the camera protection member and the camera.

8. The camera assembly of claim 7, wherein the camera assembly comprises two cameras, and the lens comprises a connecting portion and two optical portions, and the two optical portions are respectively disposed corresponding to the two cameras, so that the lens can simultaneously change the optical performance of the two cameras.

9. The camera assembly of claim 7, wherein the camera assembly comprises two cameras, the slot on the side frame and the two cameras are arranged on the same line, the connecting portion of the lens is provided with a hollow area, and the hollow area and the optical portion are respectively arranged corresponding to the two cameras, so that the optical performance of only one camera is changed by the lens.

10. A terminal device, characterized in that the terminal device comprises a housing assembly according to any of claims 1-4 and/or a camera assembly according to any of claims 5-9.