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Granted Patent B2
US 11,946,860 · App. 17/944,205 · Granted Apr 2, 2024

Electronic device

Inventors: Tetsumaru Fujita (Hyogo, JP); Hidetaka Noguchi (Hyogo, JP)
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
G01N21/255G01N21/27G01N2201/022
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Patent No.
US 11,946,860
App. No.
17/944,205
Granted
Apr 2, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device includes a housing that houses a movable member inside the housing, and a shock absorbing member that reduces a shock to the movable member. The shock absorbing member holds the housing on an inner side of the shock absorbing member and includes at least one of a protrusion protruding in a direction along a movable direction of the movable member or a depression depressed in a direction along the movable direction on an outer side of the shock absorbing member.

Claims (21)

1. An electronic device comprising:

a housing that houses a movable structure inside the housing, wherein the movable structure is to swing around a predetermined swing axis; and

a shock absorbing structure to reduce a shock to the movable structure;

wherein the shock absorbing structure holds the housing on an inner side of the shock absorbing structure,

the shock absorbing structure includes a protrusion protruding in a direction along a movable direction of the movable structure and a depression depressed in a direction along the movable direction on an outer side of the shock absorbing structure, and

the movable direction is a normal direction of the movable structure when the movable structure is at one position among a range of positions of the movable structure that swings.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a depth along the movable direction from an outer side of the shock absorbing structure to a bottom of the depression is 5.1 mm or more.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the depression includes a tapered shape that is narrower toward a bottom of the depression.

4. The electronic device according to claim 3 , wherein a depression taper angle of the tapered shape of the depression is 120 degrees or less.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a height along the movable direction from the outer side of the shock absorbing structure to an end portion of the protrusion is 5.1 mm or more.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the protrusion includes a tapered shape that is thinner toward an end portion of the protrusion.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6 , wherein a protrusion taper angle of the tapered shape of the protrusion is 120 degrees or less.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the protrusion includes a plurality of protrusions disposed at positions symmetrical with respect to an axis intersecting with the swing axis and extending along the movable direction.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the movable structure is formed through a semiconductor process.

10. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the shock absorbing structure includes silicone rubber.

11. The electronic device according to claim 1 , the electronic device being configured to spectroscopically analyze light from an object, the electronic device further comprising, inside the electronic device:

a light source to emit light to the object;

a diffraction structure to diffract light emitted from the light source and reflected by the object; and

a light receiver to output an electric signal corresponding to a light intensity of light diffracted by the diffraction structure,

wherein the movable structure guides the light diffracted by the diffraction structure to the light receiver.

12. The electronic device according to claim 11 , wherein the diffraction structure is a concave diffraction grating, and the light receiver is a photoelectric conversion element.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 14, 2022
From: FUJITA, TETSUMARU; NOGUCHI, HIDETAKA
To: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 061088/0459 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-154499 · Sep 22, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230116586A1 · Apr 13, 2023