PIEZOELECTRIC ULTRASONIC MOTOR, OPTICAL MEMBER DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA DEVICE, AND LECTRONIC APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20230268850A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-24

    申请号:US18172033

    申请日:2023-02-21

    发明人: Tatsuki WADE

    IPC分类号: H02N2/16 H02N2/02 H02N2/04

    CPC分类号: H02N2/163 H02N2/026 H02N2/046

    摘要: A piezoelectric ultrasonic motor including: a columnar body having two opposite bottom surface portions and a plurality of side surface portions surrounding a region between the two bottom surface portions, and having a through hole that penetrates between the two bottom surface portions; a driving shaft inserted through the through hole of the columnar body; and a flexible printed circuits (FPC) on which a plurality of sheet-like piezoelectric elements are mounted, wherein the FPC has an FPC main body bringing the plurality of piezoelectric elements into contact respectively with the plurality of side surface portions of the columnar body and wound around the columnar body, and can supply driving electric power to the plurality of piezoelectric elements.

    LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230062176A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-02

    申请号:US17980762

    申请日:2022-11-04

    申请人: NIKON CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: H02N2/12 H01L41/09 H02N2/16

    摘要: 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.

    VIBRATION WAVE MOTOR AND IMAGING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING VIBRATION WAVE MOTOR

    公开(公告)号:US20230060963A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-02

    申请号:US18045271

    申请日:2022-10-10

    发明人: Akira Shimada

    IPC分类号: H02N2/16 H02N2/14 H02N2/02

    摘要: A vibration wave motor, includes a vibrator including an electro-mechanical energy conversion element and an elastic body, and a contact body, wherein the elastic body includes a flat plate portion on which the electro-mechanical energy conversion element is fixed, and a protruding portion, wherein the protruding portion includes a contact portion, a side wall portion, and a coupling portion that is configured to couple the contact portion and the side wall portion, and wherein a predetermined inequality is satisfied, where a thickness of the side wall portion in a direction orthogonal to the pressure direction is t1, and a distance in the pressure direction from a second surface of the flat plate portion to the coupling portion is h1, the second surface of the flat plate portion facing a first surface of the flat plate portion on which the electro-mechanical energy conversion element is fixed.

    Lens barrel and imaging device
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11594985B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-28

    申请号:US17324587

    申请日:2021-05-19

    申请人: NIKON CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: H02N2/16 H02N2/00 H02N2/14

    摘要: A lens barrel includes: an electromechanical conversion element; an elastic body having a joining surface, a drive surface, and grooves; a motion member rotating by vibration wave of the drive surface; a rotating ring having a recess part and rotating by rotation of the motion member; a moving ring engaged to the recess part and moving to an optical axis direction by rotation of the rotating ring; and a lens held in the moving ring; wherein the element is made of a material having sodium potassium niobate, potassium niobate, sodium niobate or barium titanate, wherein a value of T/(B+C) is within a range of from 1.3 to 2.8 when: length from the drive surface to a base unit of the groove is defined as T; length from the base unit of the groove to the joining surface is defined as B; and thickness of the element is defined as C.

    INJECTOR AND CONTROL METHOD FOR AN ULTRASONIC MOTOR

    公开(公告)号:US20220200487A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-23

    申请号:US17654392

    申请日:2022-03-10

    摘要: Provided is an injector in which adhesion between a stator and a rotor of an ultrasonic motor can be released efficiently. An injector (1) which injects a chemical liquid includes: an ultrasonic motor unit (3) including an ultrasonic motor (31); a drive mechanism (4) to be driven by the ultrasonic motor unit (3) so as to feed the chemical liquid when the ultrasonic motor (31) rotates forwardly; and a control device (5) which controls the ultrasonic motor (31) of the ultrasonic motor unit (3). The ultrasonic motor (31) includes a stator (32) and a rotor (33), and the control device (5) controls the ultrasonic motor (31) to alternately repeat forward rotation and reverse rotation so that adhesion between the stator (32) and the rotor (33) is released.

    LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE
    7.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210273586A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-02

    申请号:US17324587

    申请日:2021-05-19

    申请人: NIKON CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: H02N2/16 H02N2/00 H02N2/14

    摘要: A lens barrel includes: an electromechanical conversion element; an elastic body having a joining surface, a drive surface, and grooves; a motion member rotating by vibration wave of the drive surface; a rotating ring having a recess part and rotating by rotation of the motion member; a moving ring engaged to the recess part and moving to an optical axis direction by rotation of the rotating ring; and a lens held in the moving ring; wherein the element is made of a material having sodium potassium niobate, potassium niobate, sodium niobate or barium titanate, wherein a value of T/(B+C) is within a range of from 1.3 to 2.8 when: length from the drive surface to a base unit of the groove is defined as T; length from the base unit of the groove to the joining surface is defined as B; and thickness of the element is defined as C.

    Vibration wave motor and optical device

    公开(公告)号:US11043910B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-22

    申请号:US16314628

    申请日:2017-06-30

    申请人: NIKON CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: H02N2/16 H02N2/00 H02N2/14

    摘要: A vibration wave motor comprises: an electromechanical conversion element; an elastic body which has a drive surface on which a vibration wave is generated due to vibration of the electromechanical conversion element; and a relative motion member which makes contact with the drive surface of the elastic body and is configured to rotationally drive by the vibration wave, the electromechanical conversion element having a density of from 4.2 to 6.0×103 kg/m3, a plurality of grooves being provided on the drive surface side of the elastic body, and a value of T/(B+C) being within a range of from 1.3 to 2.8 when: depth of at least one groove of the plurality of grooves is defined as T; thickness from a base unit of the groove to a first surface is defined as B; and thickness of the electromechanical conversion element is defined as C.

    VIBRATION WAVE MOTOR AND OPTICAL DEVICE
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200350838A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-05

    申请号:US16753959

    申请日:2018-10-17

    申请人: NIKON CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: H02N2/12 H02N2/16 H01L41/09

    摘要: A vibration wave motor includes an element configured to be displaced by application of voltage, and an annular elastic body having a bottom surface coming into contact with the element and a drive surface having a groove, configured to drive a moving element by a vibration wave produced on the drive surface by displacement of the element. The element has a density of 4.2 to 6.0×103 kg/m3. 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 bottom surface, and W represents a radial width of the elastic body.

    Method for controlling ultrasonic motor and surveying instrument for the same

    公开(公告)号:US10712153B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-14

    申请号:US15477691

    申请日:2017-04-03

    摘要: Provided is a method for controlling an ultrasonic motor to reduce deterioration of automatic tracking performance, and a surveying instrument for the same. The present invention provides a method for controlling an ultrasonic motor in a surveying instrument including a rotary shaft, an ultrasonic motor that drives a rotary shaft, a tracking unit that includes a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit and tracks a target, and a clock signal oscillation unit that outputs a clock signal, wherein at the time of low-speed rotation of the ultrasonic motor, based on the clock signal, a ratio of an acceleration period in which a drive signal is applied and a deceleration period in which the drive signal is stopped in a drive cycle of the drive signal of the ultrasonic motor is set, and the light emitting unit is made to emit light in the deceleration period.