Imaging apparatus with an impact-resistant function
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuhiro Fukuzawa, Daisuke Sasaki
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes a camera unit configured to support a lens unit including an image sensor, and capable of rotating about a tilt rotational shaft via a first bearing, and a pan unit configured to support the camera unit, and capable of rotating about a pan rotational shaft via a second bearing, wherein the first bearing and the second bearing have an elastic member disposed on an outer periphery or on an inner periphery, wherein the camera unit is movable relative to the tilt rotational shaft in a case where an impactive force is applied to the camera unit, and wherein the pan unit is movable relative to the pan rotational shaft in a case where the impactive force is applied to the camera unit.
Claims8
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a camera unit including an image sensor;
- a support portion supporting the camera unit rotatably about a rotational shaft;
- a bearing disposed around the rotational shaft;
- a first elastic member disposed between an outer periphery of the bearing and the support portion, and configured to urge the support portion and the outer periphery of the bearing;
- and
- a second elastic member disposed between the camera unit and the first elastic member, in a rotational shaft direction, and configured to urge the bearing to the support portion,
- wherein the camera unit is movable in a direction substantially orthogonal to the rotational shaft due to deformation of the first elastic member in a case where an impactive force is applied to the camera unit.
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a camera unit including an image sensor;
- a support portion supporting the camera unit rotatably about a rotational shaft;
- a bearing disposed around the rotational shaft;
- and
- an elastic member disposed between an outer periphery of the bearing and the support portion, and configured to urge the support portion and the outer periphery of the bearing,
- wherein the camera unit has one of a circular protrusion and a circular depression, and the support portion has remaining one of the circular protrusion and the circular depression, the circular protrusion and the circular depression being coaxially arranged relative to the rotational shaft and arranged with a space therebetween,
- wherein the camera unit is movable in a direction substantially orthogonal to the rotational shaft due to deformation of the elastic member in a case where an impactive force is applied to the camera unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.