ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,871, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicular camera" was invented by Ken Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazufumi Takeshita (Tokyo), Takeshi Harada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiki Usui (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera according to one embodiment includes a lens unit, a board, a housing, a ring member, a conductive first shield part, and a conductive second shield part. The lens unit includes a lens barrel in which a lens is arranged. The board is disposed with a sensor that converts light received through the lens into an image signal. The hous...