Patent ID: 8118499

Claim:
A camera assembly, comprising: a housing having a central axis; and, a camera cassette slidably receivable in a front end of the housing, including: a camera sled having a pair of legs slidably receivable in respective ones of a pair of complementary longitudinal slide guide recesses located within the housing and aligned substantially parallel to the central axis thereof such that the sled is received within the housing at a predetermined, fixed angular orientation relative thereto; a camera cassette electrical connector located at a rear end of the camera sled; a camera electrically coupled to the camera cassette connector and having an optical axis; and, a camera coupling apparatus disposed at a front end of the camera sled for coupling the camera to the front end of the housing such that the optical axis of the camera is located generally concentric with the central axis of the housing and disposed at a selectably adjustable angle relative thereto.