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| 20100054101 | Lens driving apparatus - A lens driving apparatus installed into an optical unit, includes a lead screw rotated by a rotation of a motor, a lens holder moved reciprocally along a rotation axis line of the lead screw by a rotation of the lead screw, a guide shaft extended in parallel with the rotation axis line, and passing through the lens holder to guide, and a lens held at a free end of the lens holder in a cantilever state. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100165488 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING APPARATUS - When the lens barrel is in the storage state, a part of a lens group and a group cylinder are inserted into an aperture of a diaphragm unit and a shutter blade of a shutter unit is closed for light shielding. With this arrangement, the cylinder length in the storage state is shortened, and the performance degradation of an image sensor and optical components provided on a front side of an image sensor can be prevented as well. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100322609 | LENS BARREL THAT CHANGES FOCAL LENGTH AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH LENS BARREL - A lens barrel that is capable of decreasing a barrel length under a retracted condition by simplifying a configuration. The lens barrel changes a focal length by moving first and second lens groups in an optical axis direction. A light-amount adjusting member is located between the first and second lens groups. First, second, third holding frames hold the first lens group, the second lens group, and the light-amount adjusting member, respectively. A cam mechanism moves the first, second, and third holding frames in the optical axis direction so that a part of the second lens group is inserted into the aperture of the light-amount adjusting member and concave and convex surfaces of the first and second lens groups are overlapped in the optical axis direction under a retracted condition. The aperture diameter of the light-amount adjusting member is enlarged when shifting to the retracted condition from a shooting condition. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110037874 | IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS TO PICK UP STATIC IMAGE - An image pick-up apparatus that is capable of correcting shading due to a closing travel operation of a shutter by a simple process. An image pick-up device picks up the image formed. A shutter unit opens and closes a substantially rectangular aperture corresponding to image pick-up area of the image pick-up device by means of a plurality of rotating shutter blades. The shutter blades travel in mutually opposite directions perpendicular to a long side of the aperture while keeping edges of the shutter blades facing the aperture are parallel to the long side so that edge portions that cover a center area of the aperture start shading the aperture before edge portions that cover four corner areas of the aperture start shading the aperture. | 02-17-2011 |
