CN110401788B

CN110401788B - Terminal device

Info

Publication number: CN110401788B
Application number: CN201910678868.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 谢勇; 张钦周; 戢记球; 付建辉
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Hangzhou Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Hangzhou Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-07-25
Filing date: 2019-07-25
Publication date: 2021-01-08
Anticipated expiration: 2039-07-25
Also published as: CN110401788A

Abstract

The invention discloses terminal equipment, which comprises a shell, a camera, a driving mechanism and a camera guide rail, wherein the shell is provided with an inner cavity and a through hole communicated with the inner cavity; or the camera is provided with a guide block, the camera guide rail is in sliding fit with the camera, the camera guide rail is provided with a spiral guide structure, and the guide block is in sliding fit with the spiral guide structure. The scheme can solve the problem that the front camera and the rear camera of the current terminal equipment occupy larger space in the moving direction of the front camera.

Description

Terminal device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of communication equipment, in particular to terminal equipment.

Background

Along with the increase of user's demand, terminal equipment generally disposes leading camera and rear camera, and leading camera and rear camera can shoot towards both sides around terminal equipment respectively. The front camera can realize self-shooting of a user; the rear camera can realize the long-distance shooting of user, and under the normal condition, the quantity of rear camera is two at least moreover to satisfy the shooting demand of user different distance departments.

The screen occupation ratio of the current terminal equipment is larger and larger, and in order to increase the screen occupation ratio of the terminal equipment, more and more terminal equipment designs the front camera into a lifting front camera. When a user shoots, the user can control the front camera to move out of the shell of the terminal equipment; after the user finishes shooting, the user can control the front camera to move into the shell of the terminal device, and therefore hiding in the shell is achieved.

In order to increase the occupied space of each camera after assembly, the current front camera and the rear camera are distributed one by one in the moving direction of the front camera. This arrangement occupies a large space in the moving direction of the front camera. As the thickness of the terminal device becomes smaller, the front camera and the rear camera form a convex hull 102 higher than the battery cover 101. The arrangement of the front camera and the rear camera makes the length D of the convex hull 102 larger, as shown in fig. 1. A longer convex hull 102 may result in a poor appearance of the terminal device.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention discloses a terminal device, which aims to solve the problem that the appearance performance of the terminal device is influenced by a longer convex hull due to the fact that a front camera and a rear camera of the terminal device occupy larger space in the moving direction of the front camera at present.

In order to solve the problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

the utility model provides a terminal equipment, includes casing, camera, actuating mechanism and camera guide rail, the casing have the inner chamber and with the perforation of inner chamber intercommunication, actuating mechanism includes the removal portion, the removal portion with the camera links to each other, the camera with removal portion normal running fit, actuating mechanism passes through the drive of removal portion the camera passes through the perforation stretches out outside the casing or retract to within the casing, the camera guide rail is fixed within the casing, wherein:

the camera is provided with a spiral guide structure, the camera guide rail is in sliding fit with the camera, the inner wall of the camera guide rail is provided with a guide block, and the guide block is in sliding fit with the spiral guide structure; or,

the camera is provided with the guide block, just the camera guide rail with camera sliding fit, the camera guide rail has seted up spiral guide structure, the guide block with spiral guide structure sliding fit.

The technical scheme adopted by the invention can achieve the following beneficial effects:

in the terminal equipment disclosed by the invention, the camera is in driving connection with the driving mechanism, meanwhile, the camera can rotate relative to the moving part of the driving mechanism, in the process that the driving mechanism drives the camera to move, the camera and the camera guide rail can be extended and contracted in a rotating way through the matching of the guide block and the spiral guide structure, the rotation of the camera can face different directions, so that the functions of a front camera or a rear camera can be exerted, in this case, the terminal equipment does not need to be specially configured with the front camera and the rear camera and can be directly replaced by the camera in the text, therefore, the terminal equipment disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can reduce the number of the cameras, so that the problem that the front camera and the rear camera occupy larger space in the moving direction of the front camera can be avoided, and the length of a convex hull can be reduced, the appearance performance of the terminal equipment is improved.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a partial structure of a terminal device disclosed in the prior art;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a partial structure of a terminal device disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention in an extended state;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a retraction process of a camera in a partial structure of a terminal device disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a partial structure of a terminal device in a retracted state according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a process of extending a camera out of a partial structure of a terminal device disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 to fig. 9 are schematic diagrams of partial structures of terminal devices disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention, respectively.

Description of reference numerals:

101-battery cover, 102-convex hull,

100-camera, 110-guide block, 120-camera bracket, 121-connecting shaft, 122-mounting part, 1221-limiting surface,

200-driving mechanism, 210-bracket, 220-screw rod, 230-driving motor, 240-moving part, 250-reducer,

300-camera guide rail, 310-kit main body, 311-spiral guide structure, 320-fixing part, 321-connecting hole,

400-a flexible electrical connector,

500-bearing.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the technical solutions of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the specific embodiments of the present invention and the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The technical solutions disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 2 to 9, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a terminal device, which includes a housing, a camera 100, a driving mechanism 200, and a camera guide 300.

The shell is a basic component of the terminal equipment, and the shell can provide an installation base for other components of the terminal equipment. In the embodiment of the present invention, the camera head 100, the driving mechanism 200, and the camera head rail 300 are all provided on the housing. The casing has the inner chamber and the perforation with the inner chamber intercommunication, and the perforation can communicate the outer environment of inner chamber and terminal equipment, and then can supply camera 100 to pass, and then can make camera 100 carry out the switching of position outside inner chamber and casing.

Usually, the casing includes a middle frame, and the through hole may be formed on the middle frame, and of course, the middle frame may also be formed on other constituent members of the casing, and is not limited to the middle frame. The embodiment of the invention does not limit the specific opening position of the through hole.

The driving mechanism 200 is generally disposed within the housing, and the driving mechanism 200 includes a moving portion 240, and the moving portion 240 moves during operation of the driving mechanism 200. The moving part 240 is connected with the camera 100, and under the driving of the driving mechanism 200, the driving mechanism 200 drives the camera 100 to move relative to the housing through the moving part 240, so that the camera 100 can extend out of the housing through the through hole from the inner cavity or retract into the inner cavity through the through hole from the outside of the housing, and further retract into the housing to be hidden, specifically, the moving part 240 drives the camera 100 to move through the movement of the camera 240.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the camera head 100 is rotationally engaged with the moving part 240 of the driving mechanism 200, so that the camera head 100 can rotate relative to the moving part 240 during the moving process. Specifically, the moving portion 240 may be formed with a connecting hole, and a part of the structure of the camera head 100 may be matched with the connecting hole to form a shaft hole, so as to form a revolute pair. Of course, part of the structure of the camera head 100 may be rotated with respect to the moving part 240 by the bearing 500 installed in the connecting hole.

The camera guide 300 is fixed within the housing, and the camera guide 300 can function as a guide to guide the movement of the camera 100. The camera guide 300 may be a barrel structure with openings at both ends of the barrel.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the camera 100 may be provided with a guide block 110, the camera guide rail 300 is slidably engaged with the camera 100, the camera guide rail 300 is provided with a spiral guide structure 311, and the guide block 110 is slidably engaged with the spiral guide structure 311. When the driving mechanism 200 drives the camera 100 to move, so that the camera 100 can move in the telescopic direction, and the camera 100 is rotationally matched with the driving mechanism 200, under the matching action of the guide block 110 and the spiral guide structure 311, the camera 100 can rotate in the telescopic direction moving process (extending movement or retracting movement), in this case, the driving mechanism 200 can drive the camera 100 to extend to different positions, so that the shooting direction of the camera 100 can be adjusted.

When the camera 100 is required to perform front shooting, the driving mechanism 200 drives the camera 100 to face the front side of the terminal device (i.e. the side where the display screen is located), so that a user can perform self-shooting; when the camera 100 is required to perform rear shooting, the driving mechanism 200 drives the camera 100 toward the rear side of the terminal device, so that the user can perform long-distance shooting.

In the terminal device disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention, the camera 100 is drivingly connected to the driving mechanism 200, and at the same time, the camera 100 can rotate relative to the moving part 240 of the driving mechanism 200, and in the process that the driving mechanism 200 drives the camera 100 to move, the camera 100 and the camera guide rail 300 can extend and retract rotationally through the cooperation of the guide block 110 and the spiral guide structure 311, and the rotation of the camera 100 can face different directions, so as to exert the functions of a front camera or a rear camera, in this case, the terminal device does not need to be specially configured with a front camera and a rear camera, and is directly replaced by the camera 100 in the text, so the terminal device disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention can reduce the number of the cameras 100, and can avoid the problem that the front camera and the rear camera occupy a large space in the moving direction of the front camera, the length of the convex hull can be reduced, and the appearance performance of the terminal equipment is improved.

Of course, it may also be: the spiral guide structure 311 can be seted up to camera 100, camera guide rail 300 and camera 100 sliding fit, camera guide rail 300 is provided with guide block 110, guide block 110 and spiral guide structure 311 sliding fit, and under this kind of circumstances, camera 100 and camera guide rail 300 still can be through the cooperation between guide block 110 and the spiral guide structure 311, carry out pivoted purpose when reaching flexible removal.

For better guiding, in a preferred embodiment, the camera guide 300 may be a guide sleeve, and the guide sleeve may be sleeved on the camera 100, so as to achieve a sliding fit with the camera 100. Of course, the camera guide 300 may have other structures, and the embodiment of the present invention does not limit the specific kind of the camera guide 300.

As the rotation guiding mechanism of the camera 100, the camera 100 is acted by the force of the camera 100 during the process of extending and retracting the camera 100, and in order to achieve more stable guiding, in a preferred embodiment, the camera guide 300 may include a kit main body 310 and a fixing portion 320 fixedly connected to the kit main body 310, the fixing portion 320 is fixedly connected to the housing, and the spiral guiding structure 311 may be provided on the kit main body 310.

In one embodiment, the fixing portion 320 may be a fixing plate, and the fixing plate may be directly fixedly connected to the housing. Specifically, the fixing plate may be provided with a connection hole 321, and the fixing plate is fixed in the housing through a connection member engaged with the connection hole 321. The connecting piece can be a threaded connecting piece and can also be a rivet.

In order to achieve more uniform fixation, the fixing pieces may be disposed in pairs, and the two fixing pieces of the same pair may be disposed on two sides of the kit main body 310, respectively, so that the two sides of the kit main body 310 are stressed uniformly, and stress concentration is avoided.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the spiral guiding structure 311 can perform a spiral guiding function, so as to achieve rotation between the camera 100 and the driving mechanism 200. The spiral guide structure 311 may be a spiral guide hole formed on the camera guide rail 300, or may be an above spiral guide groove, and the embodiment of the present invention does not limit the specific shape of the spiral guide structure 311.

In a preferred embodiment, the guide block 110 is in a limit fit with the inner end of the spiral guide structure 311 in the retraction direction of the camera head 100. It should be noted that, the inner end of the spiral guiding structure 311 refers to an end of the spiral guiding structure 311 closer to the inner cavity of the terminal device.

The camera 100 is an image acquisition component of the terminal device, and the structure of the camera 100 may be various. For assembly of the directional camera 100, the camera 100 generally includes a camera bracket 120 and a camera body disposed on the camera bracket 120. In order to facilitate the guiding connection fit, in a preferred embodiment, the camera bracket 120 may include a connecting shaft 121, the connecting shaft 121 is slidably fitted with the camera guide rail 300, and the guide block 110 is disposed on the connecting shaft 121. The connecting shaft 121 may be designed to have a smaller diameter size so as to facilitate the cooperation with the camera guide rail 300, and also to facilitate the reduction in size of the camera 100.

During a specific operation, the camera 100 needs to be powered, the connecting shaft 121 is preferably a hollow shaft, and the terminal device includes a circuit board, typically a main board, disposed in the housing. A flexible electrical connector 400 electrically connected to the camera body may pass through the hollow shaft and electrically connect to the circuit board. This threading can avoid the winding of flexible electrical connector 400 that the camera rotation leads to in the flexible process. Flexible electrical connector 400 has good deformation to better accommodate changes in the position of camera head 100. Specifically, the flexible electrical connector 400 may be a flexible cable or a flexible circuit board.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the camera bracket 120 may further include a mounting portion 122, and the mounting portion 122 is fixedly connected to the connecting shaft 121. Specifically, the mounting portion 122 and the connecting shaft 121 may be an integral structure. The camera body can be installed on installation department 122, and the radial dimension of installation department 122 can be great, and installation department 122 can have the spacing face 1221 around connecting axle 121, and spacing face 1221 cooperates at camera 100's the direction of contracting with the terminal surface of camera guide rail 300 to can avoid camera 100 to excessively retract.

As described above, the driving mechanism 200 is connected to the camera head 100, thereby driving the camera head 100 to extend and retract. The driving mechanism 200 includes a moving portion 240, and in the working process of the driving mechanism 200, the moving portion 240 can move to further drive the camera 100 to move, and the camera 100 can be rotatably connected to the moving portion 240, so that the camera 100 can rotate relative to the moving portion 240.

The camera head 100 may be connected to the moving part 240 through the bearing 500, specifically, an inner ring of the bearing 500 may be fixedly connected to the camera head 100, and an outer ring of the bearing 500 may be fixedly connected to the moving part 240, so that the camera head 100 rotates relative to the moving part 240. Of course, there are various ways to rotatably connect the camera head 100 and the moving part 240, and the connecting hole of the moving part 240 and the camera head 100 may be provided with a rolling body, so as to realize rolling rotation between the camera head 100 and the moving part 240.

The driving mechanism 200 may be of various types, for example, the driving mechanism 200 may be a hydraulic telescopic member or a pneumatic telescopic member, one end of the hydraulic telescopic member or the pneumatic telescopic member is a fixed end, the fixed end may be fixed inside the housing, the other end of the hydraulic telescopic member or the pneumatic telescopic member may be a telescopic end, and the telescopic end is the moving portion 240 of the driving mechanism 200.

Referring again to fig. 2-5 and fig. 8 and 9, in one embodiment, the driving mechanism 200 may include a bracket 210, a lead screw 220, a driving motor 230, and a threaded sleeve.

Bracket 210 is fixed within the housing, and bracket 210 provides a mounting base for the other components of drive mechanism 200. The screw rod 220 is rotatably disposed on the bracket 210, the extending direction of the screw rod 220 is the same as the extending direction of the camera 100, the driving motor 230 is connected to the screw rod 220, the thread bushing is in threaded fit with the screw rod 220, the thread bushing is in limited fit with the screw rod 220 in the rotating direction, and the thread bushing is the moving part 240 described above. In specific working process, after the driving motor 230 is started, the screw rod 220 can be driven to rotate relative to the support 210, and the threaded sleeve and the screw rod 220 are in limited fit in the rotating direction of the screw rod 220, so that the screw rod 220 can rotate in the process, the threaded sleeve can move along the extending direction of the screw rod 220, and the movement of the threaded sleeve can drive the camera 100 to move in a telescopic manner due to the fact that the threaded sleeve is connected with the camera 100. The driving mechanism is substantially a screw driving mechanism, and the screw driving mechanism adopts a transmission mode of thread fit, so that the driving precision of the camera 100 can be improved undoubtedly.

In order to achieve more precise adjustment of the rotation speed of the screw 220, in a more preferred embodiment, the driving motor 230 may be in transmission connection with the screw 220 through a speed reducer 250, and the speed reducer 250 can perform a speed reduction adjustment function.

The terminal device disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, an electronic book reader, a game machine and other terminal devices, and the embodiment of the invention does not limit the specific types of the terminal devices.

In the above embodiments of the present invention, the difference between the embodiments is mainly described, and different optimization features between the embodiments can be combined to form a better embodiment as long as they are not contradictory, and further description is omitted here in view of brevity of the text.

The above description is only an example of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention. Various modifications and alterations to this invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. A terminal device is characterized by comprising a shell, a camera, a driving mechanism and a camera guide rail, wherein the shell is provided with an inner cavity and a through hole communicated with the inner cavity, the driving mechanism comprises a moving part, the moving part is connected with the camera, the camera comprises a camera support and a camera body arranged on the camera support, the camera support comprises a connecting shaft, the connecting shaft is a hollow shaft, the connecting shaft is in sliding fit with the camera guide rail, the terminal device comprises a circuit board arranged in the shell, a flexible electric connecting piece electrically connected with the camera body penetrates through the hollow shaft and is electrically connected with the circuit board, the camera is in rotating fit with the moving part, the driving mechanism drives the camera to extend out of the shell or retract into the shell through the through hole, the camera guide rail is fixed within the casing, the camera guide rail is tubular structure, tubular structure both ends opening, wherein:

2. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein the helical guide structure is a helical guide hole or a helical guide groove.

3. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the camera guide rail comprises a kit body and a fixing portion fixedly connected with the kit body, the fixing portion is fixedly connected with the housing, and the spiral guide hole or the spiral guide groove is formed in the kit body.

4. The terminal apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the fixing portion is a fixing plate, the fixing plate is provided with a connecting hole, and the fixing plate is fixed in the housing through a connecting member fitted to the connecting hole.

5. The terminal apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the fixing pieces are provided in pairs, and two of the fixing pieces of the same pair are provided on both sides of the package main body, respectively.

6. A terminal device according to claim 1, characterised in that the guide block is arranged on the connecting shaft.

7. A terminal device according to claim 1, characterised in that the guide block is in limit-fit with the inner end of the helical guide structure in the retraction direction of the camera head.

8. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the camera is rotatably connected to the moving part by a bearing.

9. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the driving mechanism is a hydraulic or pneumatic telescopic member, one end of the hydraulic or pneumatic telescopic member is a fixed end, and the other end of the hydraulic or pneumatic telescopic member is a telescopic end, the fixed end is fixed in the housing, and the telescopic end is the moving part; or,

the driving mechanism comprises a support, a screw rod, a driving motor and a threaded sleeve, the support is fixed in the shell, the screw rod is rotatably arranged in the support, the driving motor is connected with the screw rod in a driving mode, the threaded sleeve is in threaded fit with the screw rod, the threaded sleeve is in limited fit with the rotation direction of the screw rod, and the threaded sleeve is the moving portion.