Imaging blade driving device
AssigneeNidec Copal Corporation
InventorsKenzo IMAI, Nobuaki WATANABE
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Abstract
An imaging blade driving device includes a lens frame holding lenses, and a blade driver mounted on the lens frame including a front frame holding a front lens, a rear frame holding a rear lens and including a step with a larger diameter than the front frame, a pair of slits in a side surface of the front frame along the step, and a connector connecting the front and rear frames outside the slits. The blade driver includes a frame body, and an insert protruding from the frame body and placeable into the slits. The insert has an aperture aligned with an optical axis of the lenses and accommodating a blade. The frame body has a contact surface in contact with a surface of the rear frame perpendicular to an optical axis direction.
Claims15
An imaging blade driving device, comprising:
- a lens frame holding a plurality of lenses;
- and
- a blade driver mounted on the lens frame,
- the lens frame including
- a front frame holding at least one front lens among the lenses,
- a rear frame holding at least one rear lens among the lenses and including a step having a larger diameter than the front frame,
- a pair of slits in a side surface of the front frame along the step, and
- a connector connecting the front frame and the rear frame at positions outside the slits,
- the blade driver including
- a frame body, and
- an insert protruding from the frame body placeable into the slits, the insert having an aperture aligned with an optical axis of the lenses and accommodating a blade,
- wherein the frame body has a contact surface in contact with a surface of the rear frame perpendicular to a direction of the optical axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.