Imaging device and focal plane shutter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9465275-B2
Application number	US-201514695568-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 24, 2015
Priority date	Mar 28, 2013
Publication date	Oct 11, 2016
Grant date	Oct 11, 2016

Abstract

An imaging device includes: a focal plane shutter including: a board including an opening; a leading shutter and a trailing shutter opening and closing the opening; a leading shutter actuator and a trailing shutter actuator respectively driving the leading shutter and the trailing shutter; and a restrict portion that restricts reciprocating movement ranges of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter, an image pickup element which light enters through the opening; and a drive control portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An imaging device comprising:
a focal plane shutter including:
a board including an opening;
a leading shutter and a trailing shutter opening and closing the opening;
a leading shutter actuator and a trailing shutter actuator respectively driving the leading shutter and the trailing shutter;
a leading shutter drive lever driving the leading shutter and rotated by the leading shutter actuator;
a trailing shutter drive lever driving the trailing shutter and rotated by the trailing shutter actuator;
a restriction portion that restricts reciprocating movement ranges of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter through physical contact;
an image pickup element which light enters through the opening; and
a drive control portion that is configured to additionally energize one of the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator such that one of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter tries to move in a direction when the restriction portion restricts the one of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter from moving in the direction, to suppress a difference in heat generation amount between the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator during a shooting operation period for shooting a single image,
wherein the restriction portion comprises a leading shutter escape slot restricting a rotational range of the leading shutter drive lever and a trailing shutter escape slot restricting a rotational range of the trailing shutter drive lever.

2. The imaging device of claim 1 , wherein the drive control portion additionally energizes the one of the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator so as to suppress a difference in energization period between the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator during the shooting operation period.

3. The imaging device of claim 1 , wherein, even after the one of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter stops, the drive control portion additionally energizes the one of the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator, subsequently to energization for moving the one of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter.

4. The imaging device of claim 1 , wherein the one of the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator is additionally energized while the other one of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter is moving.

5. A focal plane shutter comprising:
a board including an opening;
a leading shutter and a trailing shutter opening and closing the opening;
a leading shutter actuator and a trailing shutter actuator respectively driving the leading shutter and the trailing shutter;
a leading shutter drive lever driving the leading shutter and rotated by the leading shutter actuator;
a trailing shutter drive lever driving the trailing shutter and rotated by the trailing shutter actuator; and
a restriction portion that restricts reciprocating movement ranges of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter through physical contact,
wherein one of the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator is configured to be additionally energized such that one of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter tries to move in a direction when the restriction portion restricts the one of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter from moving in the direction, to suppress a difference in heat generation amount between the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator during a shooting operation period for shooting a single image, and
wherein the restriction portion comprises a leading shutter escape slot restricting a rotational range of the leading shutter drive lever and a trailing shutter escape slot restricting a rotational range of the trailing shutter drive lever.

6. An imaging device comprising:
a focal plane shutter including:
a board including an opening;
a leading shutter and a trailing shutter opening and closing the opening;
a leading shutter actuator and a trailing shutter actuator respectively driving the leading shutter and the trailing shutter; and
a restriction portion that restricts reciprocating movement ranges of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter through physical contact;
an image pickup element which light enters through the opening; and
a drive control portion that is configured to additionally energize one of the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator such that one of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter tries to move in a direction when the restriction portion restricts the one of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter from moving in the direction, to suppress a difference in heat generation amount between the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator during a shooting operation period for shooting a single image,
wherein when the drive control portion additionally energizes the one of the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator, the other of the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator is moving one of the leading shutter and the trailing shutter corresponding to the other of the leading shutter actuator and the trailing shutter actuator.

Assignees

• Seiko Precision Kk

Inventors

• Takahashi Hiroshi
• Murata Minori
• Oishi Seiichi
• Tokura Shoichi

Classifications

• H04N23/73

  by influencing the exposure time · CPC title

• H04N23/55

  Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof · CPC title

• G03B9/08 Primary

  Shutters · CPC title

• H04N5/2353

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/2254

  Electricity · mapped topic