CN210075383U - Manual lift camera structure and mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses an aspect provides a manual lift camera structure, including camera subassembly, transmission structure, casing and drive structure, the camera subassembly is fixed in on the transmission structure, transmission structure movably is fixed in on the casing, and with the drive structure transmission is connected, the drive structure is used for receiving the exogenic action drive the transmission structure removes, the transmission structure is used for driving the camera subassembly is followed the direction motion that the transmission structure removed. The utility model discloses an on the other hand provides a mobile terminal including as above manual lift camera structure. The utility model discloses a manual lift camera structure's is small, and thickness is low, when realizing camera raising and lowering functions, has reduced the mobile terminal inner space who occupies, moreover, the utility model discloses a manual lift camera structure is simple, simple to operate, low in production cost.

Description

Manual lift camera structure and mobile terminal

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a photographic field of making a video recording especially relates to a manual lift camera structure and mobile terminal.

Background

With the gradually increasing requirements of smart phone users on appearance, high screen ratio mobile phones rapidly occupy the market and become an important development direction. Therefore, the mobile phone with the full screen is produced. Therefore, in order to meet the requirement of a full screen, the position and the starting mode of the camera are more and more emphasized by related designers. Because the camera of the mobile phone can not penetrate through the display screen to take a picture, namely the camera must be designed in the area outside the display screen, and if the extremely screen occupation ratio is pursued, namely the camera is developed to the 100% screen occupation ratio, the space for installing the camera on the front panel of the mobile phone must be saved. Therefore, as an improvement scheme, in order to keep the front camera function on the premise of realizing high screen ratio, the camera needs to be retracted inside the machine body in a normal state, and is extended out of the screen to take a picture when needed.

In the prior art, a gear and connecting rod transmission mode or a motor and transmission screw mode is often adopted to drive the camera to stretch. However, the transmission mode occupies a large amount of internal space of the mobile phone due to large volume and complicated structure. For some small-screen and small-volume mobile phones, the internal space is short, and especially, a large number of sensors need to be integrated at the top of the mobile phone, so that a large-volume transmission structure arranged for a front lifting camera cannot be accommodated.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop a new type of elevating camera, which can reduce the thickness of the transmission structure and the occupied volume thereof as much as possible while maintaining the function of the elevating camera.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve the above problem, the utility model provides an aspect provides a manual lift camera structure, including camera subassembly, transmission structure, casing and drive structure, the camera subassembly is fixed in on the transmission structure, transmission structure movably is fixed in on the casing, and with the drive structure transmission is connected, the drive structure is used for receiving the exogenic action drive the transmission structure removes, the transmission structure is used for driving the camera subassembly is followed the direction motion that the transmission structure removed.

Preferably, the transmission structure comprises a rack, the driving structure comprises a gear, the gear is meshed with the rack on the transmission structure, and the gear rotates to drive the transmission structure to move upwards or downwards.

Preferably, the transmission structure includes a support and a positioning assembly, the camera assembly is fixed in the accommodating cavity at the upper end of the support, a strip-shaped through hole is arranged at the lower end of the support, the positioning assembly penetrates through the strip-shaped through hole and is fixedly connected with the shell, the transmission structure is movably connected with the shell, the support drives the camera to move to the highest point or the lowest point, and the positioning assembly is respectively limited at the lowest point or the highest point of the strip-shaped through hole.

Preferably, the positioning assembly comprises a positioning screw and a screw sleeve, wherein the screw sleeve is clamped in the strip-shaped through hole, and the positioning screw is inserted into the screw sleeve to fixedly connect the screw sleeve with the shell.

Preferably, the driving structure includes a first gear, a second gear and an adjusting disk, the first gear is engaged with the second gear, the second gear is coaxial with the adjusting disk, the adjusting disk is toggled to drive the second gear to rotate, the second gear drives the first gear to rotate, and the first gear pushes the transmission structure to move upwards or downwards.

Preferably, the side edge of the adjusting disc is provided with anti-skid saw teeth.

Preferably, a hollow groove is formed in the side edge of the shell, and part of the adjusting disc penetrates out of the hollow groove.

Preferably, the shell side is further provided with a lifting through hole, and the transmission structure drives the camera assembly to ascend out of the lifting through hole or descend into the lifting through hole.

Preferably, be provided with collapsible shelter from the lid on the lift through-hole, collapsible shelter from the lid and receive the exogenic action shrink, transmission structure drives camera subassembly rises out the lift through-hole, camera subassembly falls into in the lift through-hole, collapsible shelter from the lid and expand and cover the lift through-hole.

The utility model discloses an on the other hand provides a mobile terminal including as above manual lift camera structure.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the advantages of: 1) the camera structure is small in size and low in thickness, occupies a small space while realizing the lifting function of the camera, and is suitable for a small-size mobile terminal; 2) the transmission structure is simple, the installation is convenient, and the production cost is saved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is an assembly view of a lifting camera structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an exploded view of a lifting camera structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a usage state diagram of the lifting camera structure according to an embodiment of the present invention when the camera is in the home position.

Fig. 4 is a usage status diagram of the lifting camera structure according to an embodiment of the present invention when the camera is lifted.

Reference numerals: the camera comprises a camera assembly 1, a transmission structure 2, a rack 21, a support 22, a strip-shaped through hole 221, a positioning assembly 23, a positioning screw 231, a screw sleeve 232, a shell 3, a hollow groove 31, a driving structure 4, a gear 41, a first gear 411, a second gear 412, an adjusting disc 42 and a lateral edge 421.

Detailed Description

The advantages of the present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The embodiments described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all embodiments consistent with the present invention. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of the invention, as detailed in the appended claims.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used in this specification and the appended claims, the singular forms "a", "an", and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It should also be understood that the term "and/or" as used herein refers to and encompasses any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

It is to be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used herein to describe various information, such information should not be limited to these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one type of information from another. For example, the first information may also be referred to as second information, and similarly, the second information may also be referred to as first information, without departing from the scope of the present invention. The word "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "at … …" or "when … …" or "in response to a determination", depending on the context.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "longitudinal", "lateral", "up", "down", "front", "back", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships illustrated in the drawings, and are used merely for convenience of description and for simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise specified and limited, it is to be noted that the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, mechanically or electrically connected, or may be connected between two elements through an intermediate medium, or may be directly connected or indirectly connected, and specific meanings of the terms may be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

In the following description, suffixes such as "module", "part", or "unit" used to indicate elements are used only for the convenience of description of the present invention, and have no specific meaning in itself. Thus, "module" and "component" may be used in a mixture.

In addition, in the description of the present invention, the elevation of the "camera" and the elevation of the "camera assembly" are substantially the same, and thus are not distinguished.

Referring to fig. 1 and fig. 2, schematic diagrams of a lifting camera structure according to an embodiment of the present invention are shown. The manual lift camera structure of this embodiment includes:

a camera assembly 1, said camera assembly 1 comprising any camera or camera module applicable to a mobile terminal, which may comprise one or more cameras;

a housing 3, said housing 3 being a housing that can be adapted for various models of mobile terminals, such as mobile phones, tablets, etc.;

a transmission structure 2 movably fixed to the housing 3 for fixing the camera assembly 1 and moving the camera assembly 1 in a direction of movement of the transmission structure 2;

a driving structure 4 in transmission connection with the transmission structure 2, the driving structure 4 being used for driving the transmission structure 2 to move under the action of external force.

In the lift camera structure of this embodiment, receive an external force when drive structure 4, for example the user manually stirs drive structure etc to when taking place the motion, drive structure 4's power transmits for drive structure 2 through the transmission effect, and drive structure 2 drives the direction motion that camera assembly 1 removed along drive structure 2, thereby realizes that the camera goes up and down.

Further, the transmission structure 2 comprises a rack 21, and the driving structure 4 comprises a gear 41, wherein the gear 41 is engaged with the rack 21 on the transmission structure 2. Thus, when the gear 41 is rotated by an external force, such as a force applied by a hand, due to the meshing transmission function of the gear 41 and the rack 21, the rack 21 moves upward or downward along the extending direction thereof, so as to drive the transmission structure 2 fixedly connected with the rack to move upward or downward, and further drive the camera assembly 1 to ascend and descend. Meanwhile, when the gear 41 is rotated in different directions, the camera can be raised and lowered, respectively.

Further, the transmission structure 2 further includes a bracket 22, a side surface of the bracket 22 is fixed to the rack 21, and the camera assembly 1 is fixed to an upper end of the bracket 22. The camera head assembly 1 may be fixed to the upper end of the bracket 22 preferably in the following manner: an accommodating cavity is formed in the upper end of the support 22, and the camera assembly 1 is fixed in the accommodating cavity in the upper end of the support 22. The lower end of the support 22 is further provided with a strip-shaped through hole 221, the transmission structure 2 further comprises a positioning component 23, and the positioning component 23 penetrates through the strip-shaped through hole 221 and the shell 3 to be fixedly connected, so that the transmission structure 2 is movably connected with the shell 3. By arranging the positioning component 23, when the bracket 22 drives the camera assembly 1 to move to the highest point or the lowest point, the positioning component 23 is respectively limited at the lowest point or the highest point of the strip-shaped through hole 221. Thus, the ascending and descending stroke of the ascending and descending camera is limited, so that the camera assembly 1 can be accurately positioned in the ascending and descending processes, and the gear 41 and the rack 21 can be stably meshed without being separated.

Further, the positioning assembly 23 includes a positioning screw 231 and a screw sleeve 232, wherein the screw sleeve 232 is clamped in the strip-shaped through hole 221, and the positioning screw 231 is inserted into the screw sleeve 232 to fixedly connect the screw sleeve 232 with the housing 3. Preferably, the screw sleeve 232 includes a clamping portion having a diameter the same as the width of the strip-shaped through hole 221 and a pressing portion located at the upper end of the clamping portion and having a diameter larger than the width of the strip-shaped through hole 221, and when the positioning screw 231 is inserted into the screw sleeve 232, a screw cap of the screw sleeve 232 presses the pressing portion. More preferably, an outer surface of the engaging portion is smoothed. Thus, when the bracket 22 moves up and down, the pressing portion limits the bracket 22 on the inner surface of the housing 3, and the engaging portion provides a limiting function for the bracket 22 and causes less frictional resistance. Therefore, the screw sleeve 232 is arranged between the positioning screw 231 and the strip-shaped through hole 221, so that the friction resistance of the support 22 is reduced while the support 22 is further ensured to be vertically up and down in the movement process, and the fluency of the camera in the lifting process is improved.

Further, the driving structure 4 includes a first gear 411, a second gear 412 and an adjusting disk 42, the first gear 411 is respectively engaged with the rack 21 and the second gear 412, and the second gear 412 is coaxially disposed with the adjusting disk 42. Like this, adopt two meshing transmission's gear and with the adjustment disk 42 of the coaxial setting of second gear 412 as drive structure 4, flexibility when having promoted drive structure 4 and setting up to, the user is through manual stirring adjustment disk 42 drives second gear 412 rotates, second gear 412 drives first gear 411 rotates, first gear 411 promotes drive structure 2 makes progress or downstream, makes camera subassembly 1 make progress or downstream, can realize that manual control camera goes up and down.

In actual use, the driving structure 4 of the above embodiment is also movably connected with the housing 3. Specifically, the first gear 411, the second gear 412 and the adjustment plate 42 are fixed to the housing 3 by fixing screws as shown in fig. 2. The centers of the first gear 411, the second gear 412 and the adjustment disk 42 have through holes, and the fixing screw includes a screw head, a cylindrical portion disposed below the screw head and having the same height as the thickness of the gear to be fixed, and a threaded portion located below the cylindrical portion. The driving structure 4 assembled in this way has small friction force during rotation, and the fixing position of the fixing screw can be flexibly adjusted according to the requirement.

Furthermore, the side edge 421 of the adjusting disk 42 is provided with anti-slip saw teeth for preventing the user from sliding during the process of dialing the adjusting wheel with a hand, the side edge of the housing 3 is provided with a hollow groove 31, and a part of the adjusting disk 42 penetrates out of the hollow groove 31. Like this, the user only needs to stir the adjustment disk 42 lateral margin 421 that exposes in the fretwork groove 31 of mobile terminal side in the in-service use process, can realize that the camera goes up and down to the ease for use of lift camera structure has further been improved.

Further, in the above embodiment, the first gear 411 and the second gear 412 are both plane gears, and the first gear 411, the second gear 412 and the rack 21 are in the same plane, and the adjusting disk 42 and the second gear 412 are coaxially arranged and tightly attached. Therefore, the thickness and the volume of the driving structure 4 can be reduced as much as possible, and the occupied internal space of the mobile terminal is reduced, so that the lifting camera structure can be suitable for the small-sized mobile terminal.

Furthermore, the side of the shell 3 is also provided with a lifting through hole, and the transmission structure 2 drives the camera assembly 1 to lift out of the lifting through hole or fall into the lifting through hole. Above-mentioned locating component 23 cooperation such as lift through-hole and set screw 231, screw cover 232 uses for support 22 receives dual limiting displacement at the lift in-process, and further the guarantee support 22 can follow straight line up-and-down motion and do not take place the skew.

Furthermore, a retractable shielding cover is arranged on the lifting through hole. The retractable shielding cover is arranged above the lifting through hole. When the camera component 1 needs to be lifted, the retractable shielding cover is contracted under the action of external force or thrust when the camera component 1 is lifted, and the transmission structure 2 drives the camera component 1 to be lifted out of the lifting through hole; when the camera assembly 1 descends into the lifting through hole, the retractable shielding cover is unfolded and covers the lifting through hole. The retractable shielding cover can play a role in preventing dust and protecting the camera assembly 1 which is lowered into the through hole.

The lifting camera assembly 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention is installed in the manner shown in fig. 1 and 2, and then the lifting camera assembly is lowered as shown in fig. 3 and raised as shown in fig. 4. When the camera of the utility model is used, the side edge 421 of the adjusting disc 42 exposed out of the side surface of the shell 3 is pulled by hand, so that the camera can be lifted; the adjustment disc 42 is shifted to different directions, so that the camera can be lifted and lowered respectively. Specifically, for example, when the camera is at the original position, the adjusting plate 42 is shifted counterclockwise, and the adjusting plate 42 drives the second gear 412 to rotate counterclockwise, and further drives the first gear 411 to rotate clockwise, and drives the rack 21 and the bracket 22 to move upward, so as to drive the camera to rise. After the camera head rises to the highest point, the lower edge of the strip-shaped through hole 221 contacts with the positioning assembly 23, and the bracket 22 cannot rise continuously under the limiting action of the positioning assembly 23. After the camera rises, dial adjusting disk 42 clockwise, adjusting disk 42 drives second gear 412 clockwise, and then drives first gear 411 anticlockwise rotation to drive rack 21 and support 22 downstream, thereby drive the camera decline. After the camera head descends to the lowest point, the upper edge of the strip-shaped through hole 221 contacts with the positioning component 23, and the bracket 22 cannot descend continuously under the limiting action of the positioning component 23.

It should be noted that the present invention provides a camera structure suitable for manual lifting as described above, however, the adjusting method of the camera structure of the present invention is not limited to manual operation, for example: the adjusting disk 42 may be in transmission connection with a motor disposed outside the housing, so that the camera module 1 can be lifted by the motor. Embodiments of the present invention are not limited thereto.

The utility model discloses a further embodiment provides a mobile terminal including as above manual lift camera structure. Because above-mentioned manual lift camera has small, thickness is low, simple structure's characteristics, so can be applied to in the mobile terminal of small volume, frivolous, inner space shortage, especially in intelligent wearing equipment such as small-screen cell-phone or intelligent wrist-watch.

It should be noted that the embodiments of the present invention have better practicability and are not intended to limit the present invention in any way, and any person skilled in the art may change or modify the technical contents disclosed above to equivalent effective embodiments, but all the modifications or equivalent changes and modifications made to the above embodiments according to the technical spirit of the present invention still fall within the scope of the technical solution of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A manual lifting camera structure comprises a camera component, a transmission structure, a shell and a driving structure, and is characterized in that,

the camera assembly is fixed on the transmission structure,

the transmission structure is movably fixed on the shell and is in transmission connection with the driving structure,

the driving structure is used for driving the transmission structure to move under the action of external force, and the transmission structure is used for driving the camera assembly to move along the direction in which the transmission structure moves.

2. The manual elevating camera structure of claim 1,

the transmission structure comprises a rack which is provided with a gear rack,

the driving structure comprises a gear, the gear is meshed with a rack on the transmission structure, and the gear rotates to drive the transmission structure to move upwards or downwards.

3. The manual elevating camera structure of claim 1,

the transmission structure comprises a support and a positioning assembly, the camera assembly is fixed in the accommodating cavity at the upper end of the support, a strip-shaped through hole is formed in the lower end of the support, the positioning assembly penetrates through the strip-shaped through hole to be fixedly connected with the shell, the transmission structure is movably connected with the shell, the support drives the camera to move to the highest point or the lowest point, and the positioning assembly is limited at the lowest point or the highest point of the strip-shaped through hole respectively.

4. The manual elevating camera structure of claim 3,

the positioning assembly comprises a positioning screw and a screw sleeve, wherein the screw sleeve is clamped in the strip-shaped through hole, and the positioning screw is inserted into the screw sleeve to fixedly connect the screw sleeve with the shell.

5. The manual elevating camera structure of claim 4,

the driving structure comprises a first gear, a second gear and an adjusting disc, the first gear is meshed with the second gear, the second gear is coaxial with the adjusting disc, the adjusting disc is stirred to drive the second gear to rotate, the second gear drives the first gear to rotate, and the first gear pushes the transmission structure to move upwards or downwards.

6. The manual elevating camera structure of claim 5,

and anti-skid sawteeth are arranged on the side edge of the adjusting disc.

7. The manual elevating camera structure of claim 6,

the side edge of the shell is provided with a hollow groove, and part of the adjusting disc penetrates out of the hollow groove.

8. The manual elevating camera structure of claim 7,

the side of the shell is also provided with a lifting through hole, and the transmission structure drives the camera component to lift out of the lifting through hole or fall into the lifting through hole.

9. The manual elevating camera structure of claim 8,

a retractable shielding cover is arranged on the lifting through hole,

the retractable shielding cover is retracted under the action of external force, the transmission structure drives the camera component to rise out of the lifting through hole,

the camera assembly descends into the lifting through hole, and the retractable shielding cover is unfolded and covers the lifting through hole.

10. A mobile terminal, characterized in that it comprises a manually liftable camera structure according to any of claims 1 to 9.

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