IP Library Granted Patent US 7,605,864
Granted Patent B2
US 7,605,864 · App. 11/205,900 · Granted Oct 20, 2009

Image pickup apparatus and electronics apparatus mounting the same

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Patent No.
US 7,605,864
App. No.
11/205,900
Granted
Oct 20, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided an image pickup apparatus having an image pickup unit having an image pickup element, an optical unit having lenses, a sector drive unit having sectors arranged in a space for arranging the sectors, and supporting members being fixed in the space for arranging the sectors and having lengths equal to at least a width of the space for arranging the sectors in a light axis direction.

Claims (17)

1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:

an image pickup unit having an image pickup element;

an optical unit having lenses;

a sector drive unit having sectors arranged in a space for arranging the sectors;

supporting members being fixed in the space for arranging the sectors and having lengths equal to at least a width of the space for arranging the sectors in a light axis direction;

wherein the space for arranging the sectors is provided between a sector substrate in contact with a subject side of the optical unit and a sector pressing plate that presses the sectors;

the supporting members are fixed onto the sector substrate in a region in which the sector substrate overlaps a lens holder that holds the lenses; and

wherein the image pickup unit is coupled to the sector substrate.

2. The image pickup apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the supporting members protrude from the sector pressing plate in the light axis direction.

3. An electronics apparatus comprising an image pickup apparatus, the image pickup apparatus including:

an image pickup unit having an image pickup element;

an optical unit having lenses;

a sector drive unit having sectors arranged in a space for arranging the sectors;

supporting members protruding from the space for arranging the sectors in the light axis direction and being in contact with a chassis of the electronics apparatus;

wherein the space for arranging the sectors is provided between a sector substrate in contact with a subject side of the optical unit and a sector pressing plate that presses the sectors;

the supporting members are fixed onto the sector substrate in a region in which the sector substrate overlaps a lens holder that holds the lenses; and

wherein the image pickup unit is coupled to the sector substrate.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Oct 30, 2019
From: SEIKO PRECISION INC.
To: SEIKO PRECISION INC.
Reel/Frame 050872/0748 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 30, 2019
From: SEIKO PRECISION INC.
To: SEIKO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA (TRADING AS SEIKO HOLDINGS CORPORATION)
Reel/Frame 050873/0971 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 16, 2005
From: TAKAHASHI, HIROSHI; NAKANO, YOICHI; KUDOU, KENICHI; FUJIWARA, MASAO
To: SEIKO PRECISION INC.
Reel/Frame 016903/0171 →