Image capturing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHidetoshi Kei
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes first protrusion portions which are formed in a circumferential shape centered on a rotation axis of a lens barrel on at least one of an inside of an exterior case and an outside of the lens barrel, and in a cross section including a tilt axis, a protrusion amount of the first protrusion portions is determined in such a manner that a clearance between the exterior case and the lens barrel is smaller than a clearance between an inner circumferential surface of the dome member and an outer circumferential surface where an outermost lens of the lens barrel is formed.
Claims12
An image capturing apparatus comprising:
- an exterior case;
- a lens barrel configured to hold a lens, to be disposed in the exterior case, and to be held rotatably around a tilt axis extending in a direction different from a direction of an optical axis of the lens;
- a bearing unit configured to hold the lens barrel to perform tilt rotation;
- an actuator configured to be held by the bearing unit and to generate a driving force for rotating the lens barrel;
- and
- a dome member configured to be attached to the exterior case and to cover an area on an object side of the lens barrel,
- wherein a first protrusion portion is formed in a circumferential shape centered on a rotation axis of the lens barrel on at least one of an inside of the exterior case and an outside of the lens barrel, and
- wherein, in a cross section including the tilt axis, a protrusion amount of the first protrusion portion is determined in such a manner that a clearance between the exterior case and the lens barrel is smaller than a clearance between an inner circumferential surface of the dome member and an outer circumferential surface where an outermost lens of the lens barrel is formed.
An image capturing apparatus comprising:
- an exterior case;
- a lens barrel configured to hold a lens, to be disposed in the exterior case, and to be held rotatably around a tilt axis extending in a direction different from a direction of an optical axis of the lens;
- a dome member configured to be attached to the exterior case and to cover an area on an object side of the lens barrel;
- and
- a frame member configured to cover an external appearance surface of the dome member on an outside of an image capturing area of the lens barrel,
- wherein the frame member includes a cavity portion having an elastically deformable shape and a contact portion that is configured to come into contact with a member having rigidity higher than rigidity of the dome member in a case where an impact is applied to the image capturing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.