Patent ID: 11968435
Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A camera assembly comprising:
a sensor subassembly that comprises a rear housing and a circuit board fixed to the rear housing, the circuit board comprising an imager and one or more infrared (IR) emitters, wherein the rear housing comprises:
an internal cavity with mounting formations onto which the circuit board is disposed;
at least one retention formation for fixing the circuit board to the rear housing;
a connector receptacle for receiving a connector, the connector receptacle being aligned with a circuit board interface of the circuit board; and
a second interface surface; and

an optical subassembly that comprises a lens holder, a lens fixed to the lens holder, and an IR transmitting material, the lens holder functioning as a front housing that is mated to the rear housing via an ultraviolet (UV) cured adhesive applied between the second interface surface of the rear housing and a first interface surface of the lens holder that is profiled to oppose the second interface surface of the rear housing, the optical subassembly being aligned with the sensor subassembly, prior to curing the UV cured adhesive, via an alignment and focusing jig that adjusts a relative position between the optical subassembly and the sensor subassembly to focus light from the lens on the imager and to allow light from the IR emitters to transmit through the IR transmitting material and into an environment of the camera assembly.