CN111064874B

CN111064874B - Electronic device

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Publication number: CN111064874B
Application number: CN201911367053.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 金铭
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Hangzhou Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Hangzhou Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-26
Filing date: 2019-12-26
Publication date: 2021-08-10
Anticipated expiration: 2039-12-26
Also published as: WO2021129769A1; CN111064874A

Abstract

The invention discloses electronic equipment which comprises a shell, a camera assembly, a driving mechanism and a guide rail, wherein the shell is provided with an inner cavity and an opening communicated with the inner cavity; under the condition that the camera assembly extends out of the shell, the driving mechanism drives the camera assembly to slide on the spiral guide section and drives the camera assembly to rotate. The scheme can solve the problem that the front camera and the rear camera arranged in the conventional electronic equipment occupy larger inner space of the shell.

Description

Electronic device

Technical Field

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

Background

With the development of the communication industry, it is an important development direction at present to continuously improve the appearance expressive force and interactive use experience of electronic equipment. At present, manufacturers continuously pursue the extreme screen occupation ratio of electronic devices, and various electronic devices with larger screen occupation ratios are developed, such as electronic devices equipped with a water drop screen or a bang screen.

In order to further increase the screen occupation ratio of the electronic equipment, the electronic equipment on the market at present is provided with a lifting front-facing camera, and when front-facing shooting is required, the lifting camera extends out of a shell of the electronic equipment; when shooting is completed, the lifting type camera retracts into the shell of the electronic equipment, so that hiding in the shell is achieved. Because the front camera is the over-and-under type camera to avoid the face to setting up the display screen on the electronic equipment to occupy, and then can increase the screen of electronic equipment to a great extent and account for the ratio.

In order to meet the shooting requirements of users, most electronic devices are configured with a front camera and a rear camera. However, the front camera and the rear camera occupy a large inner space of the housing, and meanwhile, the shooting performance of the front camera is poor, so that the shooting experience of a user is influenced.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention discloses electronic equipment, which aims to solve the problem that a front camera and a rear camera which are configured in the conventional electronic equipment occupy larger inner space of a shell.

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

the invention discloses electronic equipment which comprises a shell, a camera assembly, a driving mechanism and a guide rail, wherein the shell is provided with an inner cavity and an opening communicated with the inner cavity, the driving mechanism and the guide rail are arranged in the inner cavity, the camera assembly is rotationally connected with the driving mechanism and is in sliding connection with the guide rail, the guide rail comprises a straight line section and a spiral guide section connected with the straight line section, the straight line section and the spiral guide section are sequentially arranged in the extending direction of the camera assembly, and the driving mechanism drives the camera assembly to extend out of the shell or retract into the inner cavity of the shell through the opening under the condition that the camera assembly slides in the straight line section; under the condition that the camera assembly extends out of the shell, the driving mechanism drives the camera assembly to slide on the spiral guide section and drives the camera assembly to rotate.

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

in the electronic equipment disclosed by the embodiment of the invention, in the process of driving the camera component to move by the driving mechanism, the camera component can extend out of the shell through the straight line section of the guide rail under the guiding action of the guide rail, so that the screen occupation ratio of the electronic equipment is improved, the camera component can rotate through the spiral guiding section of the guide rail, the camera component can face different directions, and the functions of a front camera or a rear camera can be further exerted.

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, fig. 3, fig. 5 and fig. 7 are schematic diagrams illustrating four partial structures of a camera assembly in an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention when the camera assembly is retracted;

fig. 2, 4, 6 and 8 are schematic diagrams illustrating four partial structures of the electronic device according to the embodiment of the present invention when the camera assembly is extended;

fig. 9 and fig. 10 are schematic structural diagrams of the guide rail disclosed by the embodiment of the invention at two viewing angles, respectively.

Description of reference numerals:

100-shell, 110-hole and 120-avoidance hole;

200-a camera assembly, 210-a camera module, 220-a conduit, 221-a first straight pipe section, 222-a bent connecting pipe section, 223-a second straight pipe section and 224-a slide block;

300-a driving mechanism, 310-a driving motor, 320-a lead screw and 330-a thread sleeve;

400-guide rail, 410-straight line segment, 420-spiral guide segment, 430-guide hole, 440-first support segment and 450-second support segment;

500-flexible electrical connection, 510-elastic expansion section.

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.

As shown in fig. 1 to 10, an embodiment of the present invention discloses an electronic apparatus including a housing 100, a camera assembly 200, a driving mechanism 300, and a guide rail 400.

The housing 100 is a peripheral member of the electronic apparatus, and the housing 100 provides a mounting position for other components of the electronic apparatus. The housing 100 has an inner cavity and an opening 110 communicating with the inner cavity, the driving mechanism 300 and the guide rail 400 are both disposed in the inner cavity of the housing 100, and the camera head assembly 200 can be extended out of the housing 100 or retracted into the inner cavity of the housing 100 through the opening 110.

Usually, the housing 100 further includes a middle frame, and the opening 110 may be formed on the middle frame, of course, the opening 110 may also be formed in other positions that can satisfy the requirement of extending and retracting the camera assembly 200, and the specific opening position of the opening 110 is not limited in the present invention.

Drive mechanism 300 is rotatably coupled to camera head assembly 200, and drive mechanism 300 provides powered support for movement of camera head assembly 200. The driving mechanism 300 may have various structures, for example, the driving mechanism 300 may be a hydraulic telescopic rod, a pneumatic telescopic rod, a screw driving mechanism, etc.

Specifically, the driving mechanism 300 drives the camera head assembly 200 to slide on the guide rail 400, so that the camera head assembly 200 can extend out of the housing 100 from the inner cavity of the housing 100 through the opening 110 or retract into the inner cavity from the outside of the housing 100 through the opening 110, thereby hiding the camera head assembly 200.

The guide rail 400 can guide the movement of the camera head assembly 200 when the driving mechanism 300 drives the camera head assembly 200 to move. Specifically, the camera head assembly 200 is slidably connected to the guide rail 400, so that the camera head assembly 200 can slide on the guide rail 400, the guide rail 400 includes a straight section 410 and a spiral guide section 420 connected to the straight section 410, and the straight section 410 and the spiral guide section 420 are sequentially arranged in a direction in which the camera head assembly 200 extends out of the housing 100.

Based on this, the specific motion process of the camera assembly 200 includes: when the driving mechanism 300 drives the camera head assembly 200 to slide in the straight line section 410, the camera head assembly 200 extends out of the casing 100 through the opening 110, or the camera head assembly 200 retracts into the inner cavity of the casing 100 through the opening 110; with the camera assembly 200 protruding out of the housing 100, the driving mechanism 300 drives the camera assembly 200 to slide on the spiral guide section 420 and drives the camera assembly 200 to rotate.

As can be seen from the above working process, in the electronic device disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention, in the process of driving the camera assembly 200 by the driving mechanism 300, through the guiding function of the guide rail 400, not only the camera head assembly 200 can be extended out of the housing 100 through the straight section 410 of the guide rail 400, thereby improving the screen occupation ratio of the electronic device, and enabling the camera assembly 200 to rotate through the spiral guide section 420 of the guide rail 400, enabling the camera assembly 200 to face different directions, and further, the function of the front camera or the rear camera can be exerted, in this case, the electronic device does not need to be specially configured with the front camera and the rear camera, and the front camera and the rear camera can be directly replaced by the camera assembly 200, so that the number of the camera assemblies 200 can be reduced, and further, the problem that the conventional front camera and rear camera occupy a large internal space of the housing 100 can be avoided.

In order to facilitate guiding and connection matching, in an optimal scheme, the camera assembly 200 may include a camera module 210 and a guide tube 220, specifically, one end of the guide tube 220 may be connected to the camera module 210, the other end of the guide tube 220 may be slidably connected to the guide rail 400, and the guide tube 220 is further connected to the driving mechanism 300, so that the driving mechanism 300 may drive the guide tube 220 to slide on the guide rail 400, and further drive the camera module 210 to move, so that the camera module 210 does not need to be provided with a corresponding connecting component, and thus the camera module 210 is conveniently connected to the driving mechanism 300 or the guide rail 400.

Further, in order to make the movement of the camera module 210 more stable, in an alternative scheme, the driving mechanism 300 may be a lead screw driving mechanism, specifically, the driving mechanism 300 includes a driving motor 310, a lead screw 320, and a threaded sleeve 330, one end of the lead screw 320 may be connected to a power output shaft of the driving motor 310, so that the driving motor 310 can drive the lead screw 320 to rotate, the threaded sleeve 330 is rotatably connected to the lead screw 320 and is fixedly connected to the guide tube 220, the spiral guide section 420 may be disposed around the lead screw 320, the lead screw 320 may drive the threaded sleeve 330 to move, and can drive the guide tube 220 to slide on the guide rail 400, so as to move the camera module 210.

In a specific working process, the driving motor 310 drives the lead screw 320 to rotate, so that the threaded sleeve 330 can be driven to move in the axial direction of the lead screw 320, and the threaded sleeve 330 is fixedly connected with the guide tube 220, so that the guide tube 220 is driven to move while the threaded sleeve 330 moves. Due to the guiding function of the guide rail 400 and the arrangement of the spiral guiding section 420 of the guide rail 400 around the screw rod 320, the guide tube 220 can be driven by the threaded sleeve 330 to slide on the guide rail 400, in this case, when the guide tube 220 is driven by the threaded sleeve 330 to slide on the straight section 410 of the guide rail 400, the camera module 210 can extend out of the housing 100 or retract into the housing 100; when the guide tube 220 slides to the spiral guide section 420, the thread sleeve 330 can not only move in the axial direction of the screw 320, but also rotate, and further can drive the guide tube 220 to slide on the spiral guide section 420, so that the camera module 210 can rotate.

In order to prevent the lead screw 320 from deviating during the rotation process, bearing seats may be disposed at two ends of the lead screw 320, the peripheries of the bearing seats may be fixed in the housing 100, bearings are disposed in the bearing seats, and the lead screw 320 is rotatably matched with the bearing seats through the bearings, so that a certain guiding effect can be exerted on the lead screw 320.

After the structure is adopted, the guide tube 220 may include the first straight tube section 221, the bent connection tube section 222, and the second straight tube section 223 that are connected in sequence, in a specific assembling process, the first straight tube section 221 may be connected to the camera module 210, a distance between an axis of the first straight tube section 221 and an axis of the lead screw 320 may be a first distance, a distance between an axis of the second straight tube section 223 and an axis of the lead screw 320 may be a second distance, and the first distance may be smaller than the second distance, so that in a penetrating direction of the opening 110, the driving mechanism 300, the first straight tube section 221, and the camera module 210 may be distributed in sequence. In this case, the whole of the image pickup module 210, the driving mechanism 300, and the guide rail 400 can be made more compact, and the occupation of the internal space of the housing 100 by the above structure can be reduced.

Of course, pipe 220 can be the hollow tube, compare in the solid core tube, the quality of hollow tube is littleer, meanwhile, pipe 220 can also provide the mounted position for the electricity connecting wire for the hollow tube, it is specific, be provided with the circuit board in the casing 100, it is connected with the circuit board through the electricity connecting wire electricity to make a video recording module 210, the one end of electricity connecting wire is connected with the module 210 electricity of making a video recording, the other end of electricity connecting wire can pass the hollow tube and be connected with circuit board electricity, thereby make partial electricity connecting wire can set up intraductally at the hollow tube, and then can avoid the electricity connecting wire to the occupation of the inner space of casing 100 and can avoid making a video recording the flexible winding that rotates and lead to the electricity connecting wire of module 210. The electrical connection line can be a flexible electrical connector 500, and compared with other electrical connectors, the flexible electrical connector 500 has good deformation, so that the position change of the camera module 210 can be better adapted.

The flexible electric connector 500 may have an elastic telescopic section 510, and the elastic telescopic section 510 may be expanded or retracted, and in a specific working process, in a process that the camera module 210 extends out of the housing 100, the elastic telescopic section 510 is expanded, so that the length of the flexible electric connector 500 can be increased, and the required length of the flexible electric connector 500 can be further satisfied; during the process of retracting the camera module 210 into the housing 100, the elastic telescopic section 510 retracts, so that the flexible electrical connector 500 can be prevented from being wound and occupying too much space inside the housing 100 due to the overlong length of the flexible electrical connector 500.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, one of the guide tube 220 and the guide rail 400 may be provided with a groove, and the other may be provided with a protrusion, and the groove and the protrusion are engaged with each other, so that the guide tube 220 and the guide rail 400 can be slidably connected. Of course, in an alternative scheme, the guide tube 220 may be provided with a sliding block 224, and the guide tube 220 and the guide rail 400 may be slidably connected through the sliding block 224, which may enable the guide tube 220 and the guide rail 400 to be better slidably connected, and at the same time, may enable the connection between the guide tube 220 and the guide rail 400 to be more stable, and thus may prevent the guide tube 220 from being separated from the guide rail 400.

Further, the structure of the guide rail 400 may be various, in an alternative embodiment, the guide rail 400 may have a guide hole 430, the sliding block 224 may be slidably fitted in the guide hole 430, the guide rail 400 may further include a first supporting section 440 and a second supporting section 450, the first supporting section 440, the straight section 410, the spiral guiding section 420 and the second supporting section 450 are sequentially connected, and may pass through to form the guide hole 430, and in a case that the camera module 210 is located in the inner cavity of the housing 100, the sliding block 224 is supported by the first supporting section 440, so that the camera module 210 is hidden; under the condition that the camera module 210 is outside the housing 100, the sliding block 224 can slide along the spiral guiding section 420 to the second supporting section 450 and is supported by the second supporting section 450, so as to facilitate the camera module 210 to shoot. The guide rail 400 of this structure is lighter in weight and more suitable for installation in electronic equipment.

After adopting above-mentioned structure, straightway 410 can form guide rail 400 through welding process with spiral guide section 420, and in an optional scheme, guide rail 400 can be for the integral type structure that is formed by the bending of annular bar spare, and this kind of mode not only can practice thrift the cost, and in addition, guide rail 400 formula structure as an organic whole can also avoid influencing the motion of making a video recording module 210 because the error that the welding caused.

In the electronic device disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention, the housing 100 includes a rear cover, the rear cover may have a light-transmitting area, and the camera assembly 200 is disposed opposite to the light-transmitting area when the camera assembly 200 is located in the inner cavity of the housing 100, so that the camera assembly 200 can realize a shooting function through the light-transmitting area, thereby preventing an appearance of the rear cover from being affected when a hole is formed; certainly, when the rear cover does not have the light transmission function, the rear cover may be provided with the avoiding hole 120, and when the camera assembly 200 is located in the inner cavity of the casing 100, the camera assembly 200 may block the avoiding hole 120 and face the side where the rear cover is located, so that the camera assembly 200 may be exposed out of the casing 100, and further, the shot image is clearer.

The electronic equipment disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can be equipment such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, an electronic book reader, wearable equipment and the like. Of course, the electronic device may also be other devices, and the specific kind of the electronic device is not limited in the embodiments of the present invention.

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. The electronic equipment is characterized by comprising a shell (100), a camera assembly (200), a driving mechanism (300) and a guide rail (400), wherein the shell (100) is provided with an inner cavity and an opening (110) communicated with the inner cavity, the driving mechanism (300) and the guide rail (400) are arranged in the inner cavity, the camera assembly (200) is rotationally connected with the driving mechanism (300), the camera assembly (200) is slidably connected with the guide rail (400), the guide rail (400) comprises a straight line section (410) and a spiral guide section (420) connected with the straight line section (410), the straight line section (410) and the spiral guide section (420) are sequentially arranged in the extending direction of the camera assembly (200), and the driving mechanism (300) drives the camera assembly (200) under the condition that the straight line section (410) slides, the camera assembly (200) extends out of the shell (100) or retracts into the inner cavity of the shell (100) through the opening (110); under the condition that the camera assembly (200) extends out of the shell (100), the driving mechanism (300) drives the camera assembly (200) to slide on the spiral guide section (420) and drives the camera assembly (200) to rotate.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the camera assembly (200) comprises a camera module (210) and a guide tube (220), one end of the guide tube (220) is connected with the camera module (210), the other end of the guide tube (220) is slidably connected with the guide rail (400), and the guide tube (220) is connected with the driving mechanism (300).

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the driving mechanism (300) comprises a driving motor (310), a lead screw (320) and a threaded sleeve (330), one end of the lead screw (320) is connected with the driving motor (310), the threaded sleeve (330) is rotatably connected with the lead screw (320) and fixedly connected with the guide tube (220), the spiral guide section (420) is arranged around the lead screw (320), and the lead screw (320) drives the threaded sleeve (330) to move and drives the guide tube (220) to slide on the guide rail (400).

4. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein the conduit (220) comprises a first straight pipe section (221), a bent connecting pipe section (222) and a second straight pipe section (223) which are sequentially connected, the first straight pipe section (221) is connected with the camera module (210), a distance between an axis of the first straight pipe section (221) and an axis of the lead screw (320) is a first distance, a distance between an axis of the second straight pipe section (223) and an axis of the lead screw (320) is a second distance, the first distance is smaller than the second distance, and the driving mechanism (300), the first straight pipe section (221) and the camera module (210) are sequentially distributed in a penetrating direction of the opening (110).

5. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the conduit (220) is a hollow tube, a circuit board is disposed in the housing (100), the camera module (210) is electrically connected with the circuit board through a flexible electrical connector (500), one end of the flexible electrical connector (500) is electrically connected with the camera module (210), and the other end of the flexible electrical connector (500) passes through the hollow tube to be electrically connected with the circuit board.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the flexible electrical connector (500) has a resilient bellows (510).

7. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein a slider (224) is disposed on the guide tube (220), and the guide tube (220) and the guide rail (400) are slidably connected through the slider (224).

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the guide rail (400) has a guide hole (430), the sliding block (224) is matched with the guide hole (430) in a sliding way, the guide rail (400) comprises a first support section (440) and a second support section (450), the first supporting section (440), the straight section (410), the spiral guiding section (420) and the second supporting section (450) are sequentially connected and penetrate to form the guiding hole (430), the sliding block (224) is supported on the first supporting section (440) under the condition that the camera module (210) is in the inner cavity of the shell (100), in the case where the camera module (210) is outside the housing (100), the sliding block (224) can slide to the second supporting section (450) along the spiral guiding section (420) and is supported on the second supporting section (450).

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the guide rail (400) is a one-piece structural member bent from an annular strip.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the housing (100) includes a rear cover, the rear cover has a light-transmitting area or an avoiding hole (120), and when the camera assembly (200) is in the inner cavity of the housing (100), the camera assembly (200) is disposed opposite to the light-transmitting area or the camera assembly (200) blocks the avoiding hole (120) and faces a side where the rear cover is located.