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US 8,264,556 B2Granted
Lens barrel unit
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorMasanori Hasuda
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Abstract
A lens barrel unit includes gyro sensors that detect vibration. The gyro sensors are disposed around a CCD mounting portion within a range over which the lens barrel unit is projected along the optical axis of a photographic optical system. This positional arrangement allows the lens barrel unit to be provided as a compact retractable unit, and ultimately achieves miniaturization of the camera.
Claims8
A lens barrel unit, comprising:
- a photographic optical system;
- a drive force generating unit that generates a drive force with which the photographic optical system is caused to move along a direction of an optical axis of the photographic optical system;
- a drive mechanism that moves the photographic optical system with the drive force received from the drive force generating unit;
- an image-capturing element mounting portion on which an image-capturing element that captures an image obtained through the photographic optical system is mounted;
- a vibration detection device that detects vibration, and is disposed in a space defined between an outer perimeter of the lens barrel unit and an outer perimeter of the image-capturing element mounting portion in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, with the outer perimeter of the lens barrel unit being larger than the outer perimeter of the image-capturing element mounting portion;
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- an end member that is provided transverse to the optical axis at an end of the lens barrel unit toward the image-capturing element, the end member having a portion with a flat plate shape with a surface of the portion with the flat plate shape facing toward the image-capturing element, wherein
- the image-capturing element mounting portion is formed on the end member in a region surrounding the optical axis so as to project toward the image-capturing element from the end member,
- the drive force generating unit comprises a first actuator and a second actuator, with an extent of vibration caused by operation of the second actuator being greater than an extent of vibration caused by operation of the first actuator,
- the second actuator and the vibration detection device are disposed on the surface of the portion with the flat plate shape of the end member facing toward the image-capturing element at positions facing opposite each other over the image-capturing element mounting portion, and
- the vibration detection device is disposed on a board connected to the surface of the portion with the flat plate shape of the end member facing toward the image-capturing element, and is positioned in the space so as to overlap the image-capturing element mounting portion in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis.
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