Patent ID: 8244118
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
1. A control system for an underwater camera housing comprising: a pin extended through a housing wall of the underwater camera housing at a pin penetration, the pin having an exterior end and an interior end, and a ring seat around the pin at a mid-length location on the pin; a clamp ring receivable onto the pin at the ring seat; a gland O-ring receivable onto the exterior end of the pin; a washer receivable onto the exterior end of the pin, positionable between the gland O-ring and the clamp ring, to form an assembled pin; a washer well included within an interior side of the housing wall, the washer well centered upon the pin penetration, and the washer well for receiving the assembled pin; a spring receivable into a bushing, the interior end of the pin receivable into an assembled spring and bushing, the bushing having a seat and the spring compressible by the action of the clamp ring to compress the spring against the seat of the bushing; a bushing well included in the interior side of the housing wall, the bushing well centered upon the pin penetration and the washer well, the bushing well for receiving the assembled spring and bushing; the exterior end of the pin repeatedly depress-able by a user, to extend the interior end of the pin through the housing wall into the underwater camera housing, to contact a control button of a camera within the underwater camera housing; a knob rotatably attached to an exterior surface on the housing wall of the underwater camera housing, the knob having a boss magnetic element proximate to a perimeter of the knob; a worker magnetic element positioned on an interior surface of the housing wall, proximate to the boss magnetic element, the worker magnetic element attracted to and movable by to the boss magnetic element across the housing wall; and the knob rotatable to move the boss magnetic element and thereby cause sympathetic movement of the worker magnetic element along the interior surface of the housing wall, to control a function of the camera within the underwater camera housing.