Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 摄像设备
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Application No.: US13731208Application Date: 2012-12-31
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Publication No.: US08721533B2Publication Date: 2014-05-13
- Inventor: Seiji Iwasaki , Hiroshi Ishii , Tomohisa Takahashi , Hiroaki Kagawa
- Applicant: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- Current Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2007-241489 20070918; JP2007-252430 20070927
- Main IPC: A61B1/06
- IPC: A61B1/06

Abstract:
An actuator has a magnet moved together with a moving lens frame, an SMA wire capable of extending and contracting in a moving direction I of the moving lens frame with execution or non-execution of energization thereof, a fixing member made of a magnetic material attached to a distal end of the SMA wire, a pressing spring which urges the fixing member toward the magnet along the moving direction I, and a stopper member and a stopper portion which limits the movement of the magnet along the moving direction I at a first position or a second position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130137924A1 IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-05-30
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