IP Library Patent Application 11381847
Patent Application
App. No. 11/381,847

PICKUP DEVICE DRIVING APPARATUS AND PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE USING THE SAME

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App. No.
11/381,847
Abstract

A pickup device driving apparatus includes a movable part having a pickup device and capable of moving the pickup device while a direction of a pickup surface is held, and a heat radiation part which is provided in the movable part and allows heat in the vicinity of the pickup device to escape by radiation. Thus, it is possible to allow heat to escape without generating a frictional force when the pickup device is moved.

Claims (20)

1 . A pickup device driving apparatus comprising:

a movable part having a pickup device and capable of moving the pickup device while a direction of a pickup surface is held; and

a heat radiation part which is provided in the movable part and allows heat in the vicinity of the pickup device to escape by radiation.

2 . The pickup device driving apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the heat radiation part is provided to face a heat sink part provided in a case.

3 . The pickup device driving apparatus of claim 2 , wherein convex parts are provided on a surface of the heat radiation part facing the heat sink part.

4 . The pickup device driving apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the convex parts of the heat radiation part are provided to face concave parts of irregularities provided in the heat sink part.

5 . The pickup device driving apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the convex parts of the heat radiation part have fin which extend in a movement direction of the pickup device.

6 . The pickup device driving apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the heat radiation part is not in contact with the heat sink part within a movement range of the pickup device.

7 . A photographing apparatus comprising:

a lens part;

a case;

the pickup device driving apparatus of claim 1; and

an image signal processing part which performs an image signal process on a signal output from the pickup device of the pickup device driving apparatus.

8 . The photographing apparatus of claim 7 , further comprising a cooling part which cools the heat sink part.

9 . The photographing apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the cooling part is a fan motor.

10 . A monitoring camera apparatus comprising:

the photographing apparatus of claim 7;

an illumination-intensity change detecting part which detects change in illumination intensity;

a filter part which attaches and detaches an infrared cut filter on an optical axis of the lens part depending on the change in illumination intensity detected by the illumination-intensity change detecting part; and

a control part which drives the movable part of the pickup device driving apparatus when the infrared cut filter of the filter part is attached and detached.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 24, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021897/0689 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 28, 2006
From: TAKAHASHI, MASAMI; WADA, JOUJI
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 017853/0115 →