Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lens barrel and imaging device with element and elastic body for producing vibration wave
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Application No.: US17980762Application Date: 2022-11-04
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Publication No.: US11757381B2Publication Date: 2023-09-12
- Inventor: Takatoshi Ashizawa
- Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP 17202118 2017.10.18
- Main IPC: H02N2/12
- IPC: H02N2/12 ; H02N2/16 ; H10N30/20

Abstract:
A lens barrel includes an element displaced by application of voltage; an elastic body having a contact surface coming into contact with the element, a drive surface to produce a vibration wave by displacement of the element, and a plurality of grooves; a moving element come into contact with the drive surface and rotated by the vibration wave; an annular ring rotated by rotating of the moving element; and a lens moved in an optical axis direction by rotating of the annular ring; wherein the element mainly contains a material having potassium sodium niobate, potassium niobate, sodium niobate, or barium titanate, wherein a value of [(T/B)÷W] is in a range of 0.84 to 1.94, where T represents a depth of the groove, B represents a distance from a bottom part of the groove to the contact surface, and W represents a radial width of the elastic body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230062176A1 LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2023-03-02
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