Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain a space between a compound lens of which the glass part is stuck with a resin layer and another lens arranged at a distance from the compound lens with a necessary minimum. SOLUTION: In the lens holding structure for holding another lens L22 at a predetermined distance on the side having the resin layer of the compound lens L21 constituted by sticking the resin layer 20 on the optical functional surface 11a of the glass part 10, a holding edge 12 is protrusively provided at the outer periphery part of an optical effective part 11 of the glass part of the compound lens, and the resin layer has a projecting part 23 formed on the holding edge at its outer periphery part, and a protrusive edge 13 is formed at a position separate from the projecting part to the outer periphery side at the holding edge. The projection end 13a of the protrusive edge in an optical axis direction is formed to be positioned on the more outside than the projecting part, and the projection end of the compound lens abuts on the holding edge 32 protrusively provided at the outer periphery part of the optical effective part 31 of the other lens. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lens barrel and an imaging apparatus that are advantageous to securely preventing an abnormal sound and vibrations from being generated while smoothly moving a movable lens along an optical axis. SOLUTION: A coil spring 2808 is wound around a guide shaft 28A and has its one end engaged with a large-diameter part 5402 of a 1st guide shaft insertion part 50 to be locked to a 3-group lens frame 1802. The large-diameter part 5402 is formed to an external diameter corresponding to the internal diameter of the coil spring 2808 and a small-diameter part 5404 is formed having a smaller external diameter than the large-diameter part 5402, so its one end is never displaced at right angles to the axis because of the large-diameter part 5402 and a gap is therefore secured between an inner peripheral part of the coil spring 2808 and an outer peripheral surface of the small-diameter part 5404. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus which is advantageous for miniaturization of a lens frame while improving the positioning accuracy of a light shielding mask with respect to the lens frame, and provide a lens apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same. SOLUTION: An aperture 35 of a circular shape is formed at the center of a main part 33 of a two-group lens frame 3 and the two-group lens frame 3 is so arranged that the center of the aperture 35 exists coaxially with the optical axis of a lens 31. The light shielding mask 20 is attached to the rear surface of the two-group lens frame 3. An aperture 21 of a circular shape having a diameter of the size smaller than the diameter of the aperture 35 of the two-group lens frame 3 is formed nearly at the center of the light shielding mask 20 and the surface facing the two-group lens frame 3 portion is provided with a non-adhesive region 22 not having adhesiveness. Both side parts facing the non-adhesive region are provided with adhesive regions 23, respectively. The outer side within the non-adhesive region 22 is provided with positioning holes 24 and 25 for the light shielding mask for positioning. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging device and a lens device which are made miniaturized and nonetheless are advantageous in terms of highly accurate positioning/fixation of a guide shaft. SOLUTION: A guide shaft holding wall 91 is integrally formed with a base 8, and constituted of two extension parts extending forward along the optical axis from parts of the base 8 facing the front of an imaging element 116 and a distal end part 91b for connecting the distal ends of the extension parts. A 1st recessed part 91c for holding the front end of a guide shaft 14 is arranged in the distal end part 91b. A hole part 8a is formed in the base 8 part positioned at the proximal end of the guide shaft holding wall 91 so as to be coaxial to the 1st recessed part 91c. A guide shaft pushing member 9 is arranged so as to be engaged/disengaged to/from the hole part 8a, and a 2nd recessed part 9a is arranged which holds the trailing end of the guide shaft 14 to thereby highly accurately hold the guide shaft 14 between the 1st recessed part 91c and the 2nd recessed part. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of the sticking of a cam in a lens driving mechanism using the cam. SOLUTION: The lens barrel is equipped with a lens barrel main part 2 which is arranged in the state of aligning the optical axes of a plurality of lenses 7 and 11, a lens holding member 19 which holds a part of the lens 11 housed in the lens barrel main part 2, guide shafts 20a and 20b which support the lens holding member 19 slidably in an optical axis direction, a coil spring 33 which energizes the lens holding member 19 to one side in the optical axis direction, and a lens driving mechanism 42 which displaces and drives the lens holding member 19 to the other side of the optical axis direction against the energizing force of the coil spring 33 according to the displacement of the cam 51 rotationally driven by a drive motor 53. The mechanical stroke at which the lens holding member 19 is displaced and driven by the lens driving mechanism 42 is so set as to be made smaller than the driving stroke at which the lens holding member is slidable on at least the other side of the optical axis direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize the structure of a bearing for receiving a shaft which acts as a support when moving a lens holding member along an optical axis and to enable the bearing to highly accurately support the shaft. SOLUTION: A lens holding device is provided with; a three-group frame 7 which is a holding member holding lenses; a guide shaft 14 which acts as a support when moving the three-group frame 7 along the optical axis; a rear barrel 8 which is a fixing reference for perpendicularly providing the guide shaft 14; a first bearing member 91 which is formed integrally with the rear barrel 8 and receives an end farther from the rear barrel 8 of the guide shaft 14; and a guide shaft stopper 9 which is a second bearing member which receives an end nearer to the rear barrel 8 of the guide shaft 14 in such a state that the end father from the base of the guide shaft 14 is received by the first bearing member 91. This lens holding device is used for a lens barrel and an imaging unit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an optical unit provided with a mechanism for forcibly retreating an optical filter from an optical axis to the outward of the optical axis when a user forcibly performs collapsing operation in the case of the housing/collapsing operation of a collapsible mount type lens or when such abnormality occurs that a retreat mechanism for retreating the optical filter from the optical axis to the outward of the optical axis is not actuated. SOLUTION: The collapsible mount type optical unit is equipped with a fixed ring 15, a rear lens barrel 17, a 2nd group lens frame 13 capable of moving along in an optical axis L direction with reference to the ring 15 and the lens barrel 17, an infrared region cut filter 91 arranged at the rear of the frame 13 and the retreat mechanism 88 for retreating the filter 91 from the optical axis L to the outward of the optical axis when the frame 13 comes close to the filter 91, and is provided with the forcible retreat mechanism (projection part) 92 for forcibly retreating the filter 91 from the optical axis when the filter 91 can not be retreated from the optical axis by the mechanism 88. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical unit capable of realizing the miniaturization of an entire device and the prevention of collision between lens parts by providing a position detection means inside a movable lens barrel and detecting the position thereof, and an image pickup device equipped with the optical unit. SOLUTION: In the collapsible mount type optical unit where a 2nd group lens frame 13 can move in an optical axis direction with respect to a fixed ring 15 and a rear lens barrel 17 and which is equipped with a solid-state image pickup element 24 behind the frame 13, the movable frame 13 is provided with the position detection means for detecting the position of the frame 13. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify structure and to easily and properly adjust the optical axes of a plurality of lenses with respect to a solid-state imaging element. SOLUTION: The imaging device is equipped with a plurality of lenses 7 and 11 for forming the image of a subject, a lens barrel main body 2 in which a plurality of lenses 7 and 11 are arranged in a state where their optical axes are aligned and also which is divided to a front lens barrel 3 and a rear lens barrel 4 at least in the front-and-back direction of the optical axis, a pair of guide shafts 22a and 22b whose both ends are supported by the lens barrels 3 and 4 and which supports the lens 11 being one part of the lenses housed in the main body 2 movably in an optical axis direction, and the solid-state imaging element 17 attached to the lens barrel 4 and picking up the image of the subject formed by the lenses 7 and 11, and the lens barrel 4 is positioned on the image surface side of the subject formed by the lenses 7 and 11 and has a fixed part 83a where the solid-state imaging element 17a is fixed and a pair of receiving parts 90a and 90b supporting a pair of guide shafts 22a and 22b. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect a movement of a part in the specified direction in fixing it with a screw. SOLUTION: A rectangular shaped projection 3c of a rear mirror tube 3 is equipped in both sides of a through hole 3b opposing to the vertical direction (X direction). When a screw 4 is inserted into this through hole 3b and a fixed hole (not shown in the figure) of an intermediate mirror tube passing through this and made to rotate, a take around force F1 caused by a rotation of the screw 4 works against the projection 3c by the initial contact of the lower part of a head 4a of the screw 4 with the projection 3c. The take around force F1 works strongly in the vertical direction to the opposite direction, that is Y direction, of the projection 3c and hardly works to the X direction because the projection 3c is formed opposite to the through hole 3b. By this reason, it becomes possible to fix both mirror cylinders with the screw 4 without changing a position of the rear mirror cylinder 3 in the X direction to the middle mirror cylinder 2.