IP Library Granted Patent US 7,120,025
Granted Patent B2
US 7,120,025 · App. 10/957,860 · Granted Oct 10, 2006

Imaging apparatus

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Patent No.
US 7,120,025
App. No.
10/957,860
Granted
Oct 10, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging device which images an image, an exterior member which contains the imaging device, an interior member which is arranged inside of the exterior member and contains the imaging device, a heat insulator arranged between the exterior member and the interior member, for thermally insulating between the exterior member and the interior member, and a cooling unit configured to cool the imaging device and the interior member respectively and radiating heat that is absorbed from the imaging device and the interior member to the exterior member independently.

Claims (15)

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

an imaging device which images an image;

an exterior member which contains the imaging device;

an interior member which is arranged inside of the exterior member and contains the imaging device;

a heat insulator arranged between the exterior member and the interior member, for thermally insulating between the exterior member and the interior member; and

a cooling unit configured to cool the imaging device and the interior member respectively and radiating heat that is absorbed from the imaging device and the interior member to the exterior member independently.

2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the heat insulator includes one of a heat insulator, a vacuum layer, and a layer having gas filled therein.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the cooling unit includes first and second Peltier elements, and a cooled temperature of the interior member by the second Peltier element is set lower than a cooled temperature of the imaging device by the first Peltier element.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the first Peltier element is driven after lapse of a predetermined time after driving the second Peltier element.

5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling unit includes first and second Peltier elements, and the first Peltier element radiates the heat that is absorbed from the imaging device to the exterior member, and the second Peltier element radiates the heat that is absorbed from the interior member to the exterior member.

6. The imaging apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein a cooled temperature of the interior member by the second Peltier element is set lower than a cooled temperature of the imaging device by the first Peltier element.

7. The imaging apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the first Peltier element is driven after lapse of a predetermined time after driving the second Peltier element.

8. The imaging apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the heat insulator includes one of a heat insulator, a vacuum layer, and a layer having gas filled therein.

9. The imaging apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein a cooled temperature of the interior member by the second Peltier element is set lower than a cooled temperature of the imaging device by the first Peltier element.

10. The imaging apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the first Peltier element is driven after lapse of a predetermined time after driving the second Peltier element.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 8, 2022
From: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
To: EVIDENT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060741/0576 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 27, 2016
From: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
To: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039344/0502 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 4, 2004
From: HIRANO, RYUICHI
To: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 015873/0664 →