Abstract:
A focus controller configured to control focus of an optical element includes a focus state detector configured to detect a focus state based on a contrast value of an image formed by the optical element, and a driving mechanism that moves the optical element including a motor, a position sensor configured to detect a position of a rotor in the motor, and a driving controller configured to select, in accordance with the contrast value, first driving configured to switch an electrization to a coil in accordance with an output of the position senor, or second driving configured to switch the electrization to the coil in the motor in accordance with a determined time interval.
Abstract:
A focus controller configured to control focus of an optical system that has a focus lens includes a switching circuit configured to select a first driver for the electrization to a coil of a motor in performing focus control using a first focus detector, and to select a second driver in an electrization to the coil of the motor in performing focus control using a second focus detector. The first driver is configured to switch an electrization to the coil in the motor according to an output of the position sensor. The second driver is configured to switch an electrization to the coil of the motor according to a determined time interval.
Abstract:
An actuator according to the present invention includes: a rotor that includes a magnet that has a cylindrical shape, and an outer peripheral surface alternately magnetized into different poles in a peripheral direction, and a soft magnetic member that is fixed to an inner diameter portion of the magnet; a coil that is concentric with the magnet, and arranged adjacently to the magnet in an axial direction thereof; and a stator that has a magnetic pole portion opposed to the outer peripheral surface of the magnet, in which the soft magnetic member composing the rotor and the stator are excited by the coil.
Abstract:
A motor device including a pair of motor units and a driven member meshed with rotary gears of the pair of motor units to drive the driven member, the motor units each including a rotary magnet that is cylindrical and magnetized so as to have different magnetic poles in turn along the circumferential direction, a rotary gear having a plurality of teeth, the rotary gear rotating about the rotation axis of the rotary magnet together with the rotary magnet, and a stator member having a plurality of outer magnetic poles that are arranged on the outer periphery of the rotary magnet and a plurality of inner magnetic poles that are arranged on the inner periphery of the rotary magnet and are opposed to the outer magnetic poles, the plural outer magnetic poles and the plural inner magnetic poles being excited by a coil.
Abstract:
An optical apparatus includes a movable lens unit, a rotatable lead screw moving the movable lens unit, and a motor driving the rotatable lead screw. In the optical apparatus, the center of the motor and the center of the lead screw are disposed so as to be approximately aligned on the same circumference of a circle that is centered on an optical axis of a lens in the movable lens unit. In another aspect of the invention, a holding member positions both the lead screw and the motor, so as to dispose the lead screw and the motor in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the movable lens unit.
Abstract:
A single-phase motor which includes a rotor magnet alternately magnetized to different poles by dividing it along a circumferential direction and in which a coil is disposed in an axial direction of said rotor magnet. Outer magnetized portions of an outer yoke magnetized by the coil and inner magnetized portions of an inner yoke magnetized by the coil are opposed to outer and inner peripheral surfaces of the rotor, respectively. There is also provided a holder for holding the rotor magnet at a position where centers of magnetic poles of the magnet are deviated from a straight line connecting centers of the outer magnetized portions and a rotational center of the magnet when the outer and inner magnetized portions are not magnetized. The inner yoke has a small diameter portion, and, only by reducing the diameter of the small diameter portion, the space within which the coil is wound can be widened so that the coil can be wound around the small diameter portion greatly, thereby providing a single-phase motor having high output.
Abstract:
A camera having curcuitry for detecting the type of loaded film has a processor for reading information from a recording portion of the loaded film. Detection circuitry is provided for detecting the type of film loaded in the camera, and an adjustment circuit is provided for adjusting a signal level of the information read by the processor. The adjustment circuit changes an adjustment characteristic on the basis of the film type detected by the detection circuit.
Abstract:
A motor is formed in such structure that a rotor of permanent magnet, equally divided in the circumferential direction and magnetized in alternately different poles, is formed in a cylindrical shape, that a first coil, the rotor, and a second coil are located in order in the axial direction, that first outside and first inside poles excited by the first coil are opposed to outside and inside peripheral surfaces of the rotor, and that second outside and second inside poles excited by the second coil are opposed to the outside and inside peripheral surfaces of the rotor, wherein yokes forming the first and second inside poles of this motor are formed so that a cross section thereof in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the rotor has alternately formed regions with a large outside dimension and with a small outside dimension, thereby being formed in the shape with good workability. In addition, the working of a yoke for forming the outside poles is also made easy.
Abstract:
A camera is provided with a cartridge chamber for loading a film cartridge, a cartridge chamber lid for closing or opening said cartridge chamber, and switching means for switching a state of an operation portion formed on a surface of said film cartridge, said switching means interlocking with an operation of said cartridge chamber lid to switch the state of said operation portion of said film cartridge.
Abstract:
A camera utilizes a push-out type film cartridge which is so constructed that the revolution of a feed spool equipped therein feeds out the film. The camera comprises a film feeding means capable of blank feeding the film by driving said feed spool, and a control means capable of having said film feed means rewinding the film and blank feeding the film again in case the blank feeding of said film feeding means failed.