System including a seamless lens cover and related methods

A seamless lens cover, and methods of forming such a seamless lens cover. The cap structure that covers a camera of a rotating panoramic camera system includes a seamless lens cover through which images are obtained by the camera. The cap structure may be injection molded at an initial lens cover th...

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1. Verfasser:	Dortch, Michael D
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ACCESSORIES THEREFOR AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM CALCULATING CINEMATOGRAPHY COMPUTING COUNTING DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY ELECTROGRAPHY FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS GRINDING HOLOGRAPHY IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULARARTICLES INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES B29B, B29C OR B29D, RELATING TO MOULDING MATERIALS MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS OPTICS PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHOTOGRAPHY PHYSICS PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION POLISHING SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS TRANSPORTING WORKING OF PLASTICS WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL
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Zusammenfassung:	A seamless lens cover, and methods of forming such a seamless lens cover. The cap structure that covers a camera of a rotating panoramic camera system includes a seamless lens cover through which images are obtained by the camera. The cap structure may be injection molded at an initial lens cover thickness, and then a portion of the as molded initial lens cover thickness may be removed (e.g., by machining away) to achieve the final desired thickness. By such a method, the lens cover may be injection molded at thicknesses suitable for injection molding (e.g., about 0.06 to about 0.1 inch), after which most of the thickness may be machined away, to provide a seamless lens cover having a thickness of less than about 0.015 inch, exhibiting at least 60% transmittance to the thermal spectrum, no lensing characteristics, and no curvature effect.