A vehicular camera for a vehicular vision system includes a PCB having an imager disposed thereat, a lens barrel accommodating a lens, and a lens barrel support structure that protrudes from the PCB and at least partially circumscribes the imager. The lens barrel has an outer surface that extends between the ends of the lens barrel. The outer surface of the lens barrel is adhesively bonded to an inner surface of the lens barrel support structure via adhesive. The outer surface of the lens barrel radially opposes the inner surface of the lens barrel support structure where the adhesive is disposed. With the adhesive in its uncured state and contacting the opposed surfaces, the imager is optically aligned with the lens accommodated at the lens barrel. With the imager optically aligned with the lens, the adhesive is cured to adhesively attach the lens barrel at the lens barrel support structure.

A camera module and an assembling method. The camera module comprises a lens (1), a connecting member (2), a circuit board (3), and a photoelectric imaging sensor provided on the circuit board (3). Along the direction of an optical axis, the connecting member (2) comprises a first connecting portion (21) fixedly connected to the lens (1) and a second connecting portion (22) connected to the circuit board (3); a correction plane (4) is provided on one side, facing the second connecting portion (22), of the first connecting portion (21), or a correction plane (4) is provided on one side, close to the circuit board (3), of the second connecting portion (22); the correction plane (4) is parallel to an imaging plane of the lens (1); a connecting adhesive layer (A) having a predetermined thickness is provided between the correction plane (4) and the second connecting portion (22).

Technologies for an optomechanical system include an intermediate plate having a top surface with multiple tapped holes arranged in a grid. A pair of dowel pin holes surround each tapped hole in a linear pattern. Multiple optical blocks are coupled to the intermediate plate using dowel pins positioned in the dowel pin holes and corresponding dowel pin holes defined in the bottom surface of the optical block. Each optical block includes multiple optical elements coupled to the top surface of the optical block with dowel pins. A cryostat may be coupled to the intermediate plate. A cryo-package assembly is mounted inside a cryo chamber of the cryostat. The cryo-package assembly includes a cryo device such as an ion trap covered by a machined copper lid. The lid includes a meandering passageway to allow for differential pumping in order to achieve ultra-high vacuum within the cryo-package assembly.

A lens barrel (3) holding an imaging lens (2) is inserted into a carrier (5) accommodated in an actuator (4), and the carrier (5) is held at a position in an optical axis direction of the imaging lens (2) by the actuator (4). The position of the imaging lens (2) in the optical axis direction and the eccentricity of the imaging lens (2) are adjusted on the basis of imaging information of an image sensor (6), and the lens barrel (3) is fixed to the carrier (5).

An electronic device comprises a camera and a retaining member. The camera includes an objective portion configured to collect light from a subject, a sensor portion reversibly separable from the objective portion, and a computer configured to return an indication of alignment of the objective and sensor portions based on output of one or more optical sensor elements of the sensor portion. The retaining member is configured to couple the objective portion to the sensor portion when the objective and sensor portions are aligned and also when the objective portion is separated from the sensor portion.

An electronic device comprises a camera and a retaining member. The camera includes an objective portion configured to collect light from a subject, a sensor portion reversibly separable from the objective portion, an alignment-sensing system configured to sense a state of alignment between the objective portion and the sensor portion, an actuator configured to move the objective or sensor portion, and a computer configured to control the actuator responsive to output of the alignment-sensing system, so as to bring the objective and sensor portions into alignment. The retaining member is configured to couple the objective portion to the sensor portion when the objective and sensor portions are aligned and when the objective portion is separated from the sensor portion.

A lens array of an embodiment comprises: a plurality of lenses arranged along an optical axis direction between an object and an image forming plane; a first spacer placed among the plurality of lenses; and an elastic member placed between the lower surface of the first spacer and an upper surface of at least one lens between first and second lenses, which have different widths, face the lower surface of the first spacer, and are arranged side by side along the optical axis direction among the plurality of lenses.

Fiducial patterns that produce 2D Barker code-like diffraction patterns at a camera sensor are etched or otherwise provided on a cover glass in front of a camera. 2D Barker code kernels, when cross-correlated with the diffraction patterns captured in images by the camera, provide sharp cross-correlation peaks. Misalignment of the cover glass with respect to the camera can be derived by detecting shifts in the location of the detected peaks with respect to calibrated locations. Devices that include multiple cameras behind a cover glass with one or more fiducials on the cover glass in front of each camera are also described. The diffraction patterns caused by the fiducials at the various cameras may be analyzed to detect movement or distortion of the cover glass in multiple degrees of freedom.

An optical prism that includes an interlock structure that precisely couples to a complementary structure of a refractive lens. For precision, the interlock structure may be formed at the same time and using the same technique as the optical surface of the prism. The interlock structure provides high accuracy when assembling a folded lens system by precisely aligning the object side optical surface of the lens with the image side optical surface of the prism so that the optical axis is centered in the lens. The prism may have refractive power. A portion of the object side surface may be coated with an opaque material to provide an aperture stop at that surface.

The optical system includes a base having a groove and an adjacent slot therein. The system also includes at least one optical cell slidably alignable along the groove, and at least one clamp comprising a lower end and an upper end. The lower end is slidably alignable along the slot and is secured at a set location so that the upper end secures the at least one optical cell along the groove. The slot may extend parallel to the groove. The clamp may include at least one preloaded fastener arrangement securing the lower end of the clamp to the base. The preloaded fastener may include a bolt, a spring biasing the bolt, and a threaded backing plate within the slot and receiving the bolt.