Motor drive device for a camera
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuaki Date, Susumu Kozuki, Tomonori Iwashita
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Abstract
A motor wind up device which is automatically stopped after completion of photography of a roll of film in a camera. A control circuit of the motor controlling the wind up operation is changed over from a stop state to a wind up state by means of a signal produced when the shutter has run. When the motor is once stopped when over-torque is detected at the termination of the film to carry out the release operation, no shutter operation signal is produced because the shutter has not yet been completely wound up so that the motor will not run. When the film is terminated at the beginning of wind up operation, the device prevents the production of a false shutter operation completion signal even if the shutter does not run.
Claims3
A motor drive device of a camera designed so that the motor is automatically stopped at the termination of the film during the continuous photographing, comprising:
- a motor for driving a winding up mechanism of the camera for winding up the film and charging the shutter;
- an over-torque detecting means, said means producing an over-torque signal when the wind up torque of the camera is larger than a certain determined value;
- a wind up completion switch, said switch being changed over by the incompletion and completion of the winding up of the film and being closed in accordance with the wind up completion to produce the wind up completion signal;
- a holding means, which includes a flip-flop and is reversed to generate a film finishing signal when an excessive torque signal is generated from an excessive torque detection switch while the winding up completion switch is deactuated;
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- a motor control circuit which stops the motor by the excessive torque signal generated by the excessive torque detection means and prevents starting of the motor by the film finishing completion signal input from the holding means, said film finishing signal being connected to at least the motor control circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.