US 7,380,997 B2
Monitor camera
Masami Takahashi, Kanagawa (Japan); and Toshio Nagashima, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/578,821
PCT Filed Jan. 07, 2005, PCT No. PCT/JP2005/000138
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date May 09, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO2005/071946, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 04, 2005.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-003692 (JP), filed on Jan. 09, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2007/0104478 A1, May 10, 2007
Int. Cl. G03B 17/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 396—427  [396/424; 348/143; 348/373] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A monitor camera comprising:
a shooting window member;
a hold-down portion having an outer surface which is flush with or stepped back from an outer surface of the shooting window member, the hold-down portion engaging with the shooting window member with a surface perpendicular to the direction of the thickness of the shooting window member; and
a holding portion engaging with the shooting window member and the hold-down portion,
wherein the shooting window member is configured by a first plate-shaped member and a second plate-shaped member having a size smaller than that of the first plate-shaped member being bonded together, and
wherein the shooting window member engages with the hold-down portion at a portion of the first plate-shaped member protruded from the second plate-shaped member.