Patent ID: 9260062
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: B60R

Claim Text:
1. Image acquisition system with a camera unit used for image acquisition of the outside area of the vehicle and a protective element, which can be moved from a closed position to an open position via a mechanism by means of a drive, in which at least one lens of the camera unit is situated behind the protective element inaccessible from the outside in the closed position of protective element and at least the lens of camera unit is released by the protective element for image acquisition in the open position, wherein at least the camera unit with the mechanism and the protective element is arranged in a first module and the drive is provided in a second module separated from the first module, the first and second modules being mechanically connected to each other through at least one activation element so that the drive drives the mechanism via an activation element, wherein the protective element is transferred from the closed position into the open position by the mechanism by means of the activation element, and the mechanism having a connection element for activation of the mechanism, wherein the activation of the connection element occurs via the activation element.