Driving system and optical-element driving system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsIchiro Onuki, Makoto Sasaki, Keita Misawa, Makoto Mizuno
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Abstract
A driving system for driving an optical element in a first direction. The system includes a linear actuator for producing a displacement in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a displacement picking unit being extendable in a third second direction, perpendicular to both of the first and second directions, for picking out a displacement of the linear actuator, and a direction converting unit, disposed at the third-direction second-direction side of the linear actuator, for converting a direction of the displacement picked out by the displacement picking unit into a third direction, perpendicular to both the first and second directions.
Claims11
A driving system for driving an optical element, said system comprising:
- a linear actuator for producing a displacement in a first direction;
- a displacement picking unit being extendable in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, for picking out a displacement of said linear actuator;
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- a direction converting unit disposed at the second-direction side of said linear actuator, for converting displacement picked out by said displacement picking unit into a third direction perpendicular to both the first and second directions,
- wherein said optical element is driven at least in the third direction.
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