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US 8,506,181 B2Granted
Imaging device and plate spring
OwnerTakanori Mukaiinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an imaging device including: a lens block on which a lens is installed and which is turnable in a pan direction parallel to a horizontal direction; a support member supporting the lens block; and a plate spring secured to the support member and pressing the lens block toward the support member side by elastic force.
Claims10
An imaging device comprising:
- a lens block comprising:
- a lens case on which a lens is installed;
- and
- a base supporting the lens case adapted to be turnable in a pan direction, wherein the base comprises a column-shaped outer circumferential portion;
- a support member supporting the lens block, wherein the support member comprises a plurality of projecting portions supporting the outer circumferential portion of the base;
- and
- a plate spring secured to the support member, the plate spring comprising:
- a ring-like circular portion;
- and
- a spring portion located at an inner circumference of the circular portion and having elastic force adapted to press the outer circumferential portion of the base of the lens block toward a support member side.
7 more elements
An imaging device comprising:
- a plate spring comprising:
- a ring-like circular portion;
- and
- a spring portion located at an inner circumference of the circular portion and operable to press, by elastic force, a column-shaped base toward a support member supporting a lens block, wherein the column-shaped base supports a lens case on which a lens is installed, so as to turn the base in a pan direction parallel to a horizontal direction.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.