Back to results
US 7,804,645 B2Granted
Image stabilizer
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsTetsuya Morita, Hideaki Mukae, Hironori Honsho, Kenichi Honjo, Daisuke Ito, Tetsuya Kitagawa
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An image stabilizer of the present invention is provided with a lens module 101 that holds a lens and an imaging element, an inner frame that turnably supports the lens module 101, and driving portion that turns the lens module 101 relative to the inner frame 11, with the driving portion including a bimorph 14. An image stabilizer thereby can be provided that allows the overall size and profile of an imaging apparatus to be reduced.
Claims16
An image stabilizer comprising:
- a lens module that holds at least a lens and an imaging element;
- a frame structure that turnably supports the lens module, and
- a driving portion that turns the lens module relative to the frame structure, wherein
- the driving portion including first and second piezoelectric elements that are disposed rearwardly of the imaging element, the first piezoelectric element is connected to the lens module and applies a driving force to the lens module in an optical axis direction, and the second piezoelectric element is connected to the frame structure and applies a driving force to the frame structure in the optical axis direction.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.