ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,214, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicular camera" was invented by Satoru Machida (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Kameyama (Hyogo, Japan) and Masayuki Yoshie (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera includes a lens barrel portion accommodating a lens, a welding ring disposed on an outer periphery of the lens barrel portion, a circuit board, an imaging element mounted on the circuit board, and a housing accommodating the imaging element and the circuit board. The welding ring includes a third surface, a fourth surface opposite to the third surface, and at ...