The present invention suppresses the unnecessary detection of an occurrence of a person being left behind in a vehicle. A vehicle occupant detection device (100) comprises: a distance detection unit (101) that detects the relative distance between a vehicle (200) and a first occupant; an occupant detection unit (102) that detects the presence/absence of a second occupant in the vehicle (200); and an execution timing controller (103) that, according to the detected relative distance, controls the execution timing of the detection operation by the occupant detection unit (102).
A lens driving apparatus includes: a lens holder for holding a lens; a fixing part configured to contain the lens holder such that the lens holder is capable of moving in a direction of an optical axis; a pair of ball arrays disposed with a gap therebetween at an outside of the lens holder and each disposed in parallel to the optical axis; an urging part provided to the fixing part and configured to urge one ball array of the pair of ball arrays in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis to hold the lens holder such that the lens holder is capable of moving in the direction of the optical axis; and a driving part configured to move the lens holder in the direction of the optical axis.
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
An optical element driving device includes a fixed body, a movable body, a driving part that converts vibration motion of a piezoelectric element into linear motion for driving the movable body, a drive control part that applies a drive signal to the driving part, a drive detection part that detects the drive state of the driving part, and a temperature measurement part that measures an ambient temperature. The drive control part determines whether or not a drive error of the driving part occurs from the information detected by the drive detection part. When the drive error occurs, drive control part compares an ambient temperature associated with the current drive frequency with the current ambient temperature measured by the temperature measurement part, corrects the drive frequency according to the comparison result, and stores the corrected drive frequency and the current ambient temperature in association with each other.
G03B 17/12 - Bodies with means for supporting objectives, supplementary lenses, filters, masks, or turrets
G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
Provided is a control device controlling an electromagnetic actuator that drives an operation device, supported in an elastically vibratable manner by an elastic support part, in one direction of a vibration direction of the operation device to vibrate the operation device. The control device includes a circuit that applies a main driving signal to a coil of the electromagnetic actuator to start vibration of the operation device in response to a touch operation on the operation device, then applies a sub-driving signal to the coil to adjust an attenuation period of the vibration. The sub-driving signal has a variable voltage varying with an offset voltage, as a center value, offset from a zero voltage, and a waveform that indicates a variation in the variable voltage is a sine function curve or a cosine function curve.
H01F 7/06 - Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets
B06B 1/04 - Processes or apparatus for generating mechanical vibrations of infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic frequency making use of electrical energy operating with electromagnetism
H01F 7/08 - Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
Provided is a control device controlling an electromagnetic actuator that drives an operation device, supported in an elastically vibratable manner by an elastic support part, in one direction of a vibration direction of the operation device to vibrate. The control device includes a circuit that applies a main driving signal to a coil of the electromagnetic actuator to start vibration of the operation device in response to a touch operation on the operation device, then applies a sub-driving signal to the coil to adjust an attenuation period of the vibration. The sub-driving signal has a variable voltage varying with an offset voltage, as a center value, offset from a zero voltage, and a waveform that indicates a variation in the variable voltage is a sine function curve or a cosine function curve. The circuit applies the sub-driving signal while changing the offset voltage for each cycle.
H01F 7/06 - Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets
B06B 1/04 - Processes or apparatus for generating mechanical vibrations of infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic frequency making use of electrical energy operating with electromagnetism
H01F 7/08 - Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
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SECONDARY BATTERY PROTECTION INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND BATTERY DEVICE
A secondary battery protection integrated circuit includes a first power supply terminal, a second power supply terminal, an input terminal, an output terminal, and a control circuit. The control circuit turns a discharge control transistor off to change to a discharge-blocked state in which the output terminal and the first power supply terminal are coupled to each other, upon occurrence in a condition in which a potential level of the input terminal changes from a first level. The control circuit turns the discharge control transistor on in the discharge blocked state, upon occurrence of a condition in which the input terminal changes from a second level that is different from the first level.
The present invention provides a reliable optical element driving device, camera module, and camera-equipped device that are capable of stabilizing movement of a movable part. The optical element driving device comprises a fixed part, a movable part including an optical element and movable relative to the fixed part via a rolling body, an ultrasonic motor-type driving part positioned on an active-side member, which is either one of the fixed part and the movable part, to move the movable part relative to the fixed part, and a power transmission part for connecting the driving part to a passive-side member, which is the other one of the fixed part and the movable part, to transmit power of the driving part to the passive-side member. The driving part has a resonant part with a pair of vibrating arms, and the power transmission part has a guiding part for guiding the rolling body and is sandwiched in a state of being urged by the pair of arms.
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
G02B 7/04 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification
G02B 7/08 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted to co-operate with a remote control mechanism
G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
Provided are an optical element driving device, a camera module, and a camera mounting device that are highly reliable and are capable of achieving stable movement actions of a movable unit. The optical element driving device comprises: a fixed part; a movable part that includes an optical element; an ultrasonic motor-type driving part that is disposed on an active-side member made up of any one among the fixed part and the movable part, and causes the movable part to move with respect to the fixed part; and a power transmitting part that couples a passive-side member made up of the other among the fixed part and the movable part, and the driving part, and transmits the power of the driving part to the passive-side member. The driving part has a resonating part that has a pair of arms that vibrate. The motive power transmitting part has a passive member that is gripped while being urged by the pair of arms, and a coupling member that couples the passive member and the passive-side member. The coupling member is elastically deformable.
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
G02B 7/04 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification
G02B 7/08 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted to co-operate with a remote control mechanism
G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
An optical element driving device includes: a driving part configured to drive a holding part configured to hold an optical element; a substrate including a circuit including an inductor configured to increase an input voltage to the driving part; and a cover member comprising a metal and including an opening and a flange part extending at an outer periphery of the opening, the cover member being configured to cover the inductor in a state where the inductor is housed in the opening and the flange part is disposed on the substrate. The substrate includes a metal layer disposed to face the inductor. The metal layer is formed to include a region where the inductor is disposed in plan view.
G02B 7/08 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted to co-operate with a remote control mechanism
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OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE
An optical element driving device includes: a holding part configured to hold an optical element; a housing part configured to house the holding part such that the holding part is movable in an optical path direction of the optical element; a driving part including a piezoelectric element configured to drive the holding part; an inductor configured to increase an input voltage to the piezoelectric element; and a position sensor configured to acquire a relative position of the holding part and the housing part in the optical path direction by detecting a magnetic force of a magnet. In regions defined by dividing the holding part and the housing part into equal quarters around an optical axis, the driving part and the position sensor are disposed in a same region, and the inductor is disposed in a region different from the same region.
G02B 7/09 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted for automatic focusing or varying magnification
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OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE
An optical element driving device configured to drive an optical element, the optical element driving device including: a holding part configured to hold an optical element; a housing part configured to house inside the holding part; and a supporting part interposed between an outer peripheral surface of the holding part and an inner peripheral surface of the housing part, and including a plurality of rolling members configured to be held by a retainer in a rollable manner, the supporting part being configured to support the holding part with the plurality of rolling members such that the holding part is movable with respect to the housing part. At least one of the outer peripheral surface and the inner peripheral surface includes a first recess formed at a portion facing the retainer.
G02B 7/09 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted for automatic focusing or varying magnification
G02B 13/00 - Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
An electronic shelf label system 1 includes a cluster-type network CN constructed from a plurality of electronic shelf label devices and an application device communicatively connected to the cluster-type network CN. The cluster-type network CN includes a shelf label hierarchy constructed from a plurality of electronic shelf label devices which function as shelf labels for a plurality of products and a relay hierarchy constructed from a plurality of electronic shelf label devices each of which relays a signal transmitted from the application device to one of the plurality of electronic shelf label devices 4 of the shelf label hierarchy.
This optical element drive device comprises: a movable part; a drive unit; a substrate part that can supply power to the movable part; and a power supply path unit that constitutes a power supply path between the substrate part and the movable part by extending so as to connect a substrate-part-side terminal and a movable-part side terminal that are set apart from each other in a second direction, the power supply path unit having in at least a portion a coil part that can extend and contract in accordance with the movement of the movable part.
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
An electrical connector contains a plurality of contacts, a first ground plate and a second ground plate facing the plurality of contacts and arranged so as to be separated from each other in a ground plane parallel to the at least one plane in which the plurality of contacts are arranged and an insulator for holding the plurality of contacts, the first ground plate and the second ground plate in a state that the plurality of contacts, the first ground plate and the second ground plate are insulated from each other. Both of the first ground plate and the second ground plate include an extending portion extending from one of the first ground plate and the second ground plate toward the other one of the first ground plate and the second ground plate in the ground plane.
A position indicator 1 is used for a position detection sensor 9 that performs position detection on the basis of changes in electrostatic capacity. The position indicator 1 comprises: a cylindrical first shield electrode 8; a first electrode 31 that is provided within the first shield electrode 8 and has a tip-end portion protruding from the first shield electrode 8; and a second electrode 32 that is located on the tip-end side of the first electrode 31 and provided with a contact section 322 that contacts the position detection sensor 9. The position indicator 1 receives an AC signal V1 of the position detection sensor 9 via the second electrode 32 and sends an output signal V2 to the position detection sensor 9 via the first electrode 31.
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator includes: a movable body including a shaft part to which a movable object is connected at one end portion side of the shaft part, and a magnet fixed to an other end portion side of the shaft part, the movable body being supported to be capable of performing a reciprocating rotation about an axis; a core assembly including a magnet position holding portion defining a reference position of the reciprocating rotation; and a sensor board on which a sensor for detecting a rotational angle of the shaft part is mounted, the sensor board being disposed to cover the core assembly from the other end portion side, with the sensor facing the magnet side.
H02K 33/16 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system
H02K 7/00 - Arrangements for handling mechanical energy structurally associated with dynamo-electric machines, e.g. structural association with mechanical driving motors or auxiliary dynamo-electric machines
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator includes: a movable body including a shaft part to which a magnet is fixed and being capable of performing a reciprocating rotation around an axis; a base portion including a pair of wall portions for supporting the shaft part via a bearing such that the shaft part is rotatable; a core assembly including: a core body having a plurality of magnetic poles facing an outer circumference of the magnet to sandwich the magnet, a coil body wound around the core body and energized to cause a reciprocating rotation of the movable body, and a magnet position holding portion generating a magnetic attraction force between the magnet position holding portion and the magnet to define a reference position of the reciprocating rotation; and a preload applying part externally fitted to the shaft part and configured to apply a preload to the bearing.
G02B 26/08 - Optical devices or arrangements for the control of light using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the direction of light
H02K 33/16 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system
An antenna attachment including: a male screw part to be screwed with an antenna main body of an antenna device to be installed on a moving body, the male screw part including a head portion, a thread portion, and an intermediate portion between the head portion and the thread portion having a cross section smaller than the head portion and the thread portion; and a washer including a hole portion allowing passage of part of the male screw part. The hole portion has a shape in which a first hole and a second hole having different sizes are overlapped. The first hole has a shape not allowing passage of the head portion and the thread portion and allowing passage of the intermediate portion. The second hole has a shape not allowing passage of the head portion and allowing passage of the thread portion and the intermediate portion.
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator includes: a movable body including a shaft part to which a magnet is fixed, the movable body being configured to perform a reciprocating rotation about an axis; a base portion including a pair of wall portions for supporting the shaft part via a bearing; and a core assembly including: a core body including a plurality of magnetic poles facing the magnet, a coil body, and a magnet position holding portion to define a reference position of the reciprocating rotation, the core assembly being fixed to one wall portion, in which at least one of the base portion, the core body, or the core assembly includes a positioning fixation part for positioning and fixing the at least one of the base portion, the core body, or the core assembly to a fixation target object in a direction parallel to the shaft part.
G02B 26/08 - Optical devices or arrangements for the control of light using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the direction of light
H02K 33/16 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator includes: a main body unit including: a movable body including a shaft part to which a movable object is connected and to which a magnet is fixed, and a base portion including a pair of wall portions disposed to sandwich the movable object, the base portion supporting the shaft part by the pair of wall portions; a core assembly including: a core body including a plurality of magnetic poles facing an outer circumference of the magnet, a coil body, and a magnet position holding portion; and a connecting surface portion that is integrally disposed on the one end portion side of the core assembly, and that is attached to the one wall portion in a state where the shaft part is inserted into an opening portion and the magnet is disposed in the core assembly.
G02B 26/08 - Optical devices or arrangements for the control of light using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the direction of light
H02K 33/16 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system
The present invention includes: a movable body including a magnet fixed to an other end portion side of a shaft part to which a movable object is connected at one end portion side; a core assembly including a core body including a plurality of magnetic poles facing an outer circumference of the magnet, a coil body wound around the core body, a magnet position holding portion energized to generate a magnetic attraction force between the magnet position holding portion and the magnet to define a reference position of the reciprocating rotation; and a circuit board disposed to cover the core assembly at the other end side, in which the coil body includes a terminal part to which an end portion of a coil is connected and that is disposed to protrude to the circuit board side so as to be connected to a circuit of the circuit board.
G02B 26/08 - Optical devices or arrangements for the control of light using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the direction of light
H02K 33/16 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator includes: a movable body including a shaft part to which a movable object is connected, and a magnet; a base portion including a pair of wall portions disposed to sandwich the movable object and support the shaft part; a core assembly including a core body including a plurality of magnetic poles, a coil body, and a magnet position holding portion to define a reference position of the reciprocating rotation, the core assembly being attached to one wall portion; and a sensor board that is attached to an other wall portion and on which a sensor configured to detect a rotational angle of the one end portion of the shaft part is mounted, in which the sensor board is disposed such that the sensor faces the other wall portion from an outer surface side of the other wall portion and detects the rotational angle.
H02K 33/16 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system
An antenna device including: an antenna element; an enclosure having a wall body on which the antenna element is placed in a state of being joined to an inner surface of the wall body; and a printed substrate on which the antenna element is mounted with a leg portion of the antenna element connected to one surface of the printed substrate, which is stored inside the enclosure. Holding pieces to sandwich the antenna element between the wall body of the enclosure and the holding pieces are formed at a predetermined interval on the inner surface of the wall body of the enclosure. Respective sizes of and intervals between the holding pieces are set such that a difference between a deflection amount of the wall body and a deflection amount of the antenna element when the enclosure vibrates is less than or equal to a predetermined value.
An insulated power supply apparatus includes: a transformer; a switching element connected in series with a primary-side winding of the transformer; an active clamp circuit connected between terminals of the winding; and a semiconductor device for power supply control that controls the switching element and the active clamp circuit. A current-to-voltage converter element is connected in series with the switching element. The semiconductor device includes: a circuit that generates a timing to turn off the switching element based on a voltage obtained by conversion by the converter element and a predetermined turn-off threshold level; a circuit that performs ON/OFF control of the switching element in a burst mode at a predetermined load or less; and a circuit that, in the burst mode, changes a burst frequency to be lower as a load current is smaller with the number of switching times of the switching element in one burst cycle fixed.
H02M 3/335 - Conversion of dc power input into dc power output with intermediate conversion into ac by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode to produce the intermediate ac using devices of a triode or a transistor type requiring continuous application of a control signal using semiconductor devices only
25.
MOVABLE DEVICE, MEMS DEVICE AND OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS
A movable device includes a movable portion and a drive structure configured to drive the movable portion. The movable device includes a support frame that surrounds the movable portion and supports the drive structure. The movable device includes electrodes electrically coupled to the drive structure. The movable device includes pseudo electrodes electrically isolated from the drive structure. The electrodes and the pseudo electrodes are provided on the support frame.
G02B 26/08 - Optical devices or arrangements for the control of light using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the direction of light
B81C 99/00 - Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
B81B 3/00 - Devices comprising flexible or deformable elements, e.g. comprising elastic tongues or membranes
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: one input terminal; multiple output terminals; multiple first current control elements connected between the input terminal and the respective output terminals; a control circuit that controls the first current control elements; a fault detection circuit that includes multiple voltage comparator circuits each of which compares a voltage proportional to a voltage of one of the output terminals with a predetermined threshold voltage and that detects an open-circuit state or a short-circuit state of the output terminals; an external terminal connected to an external resistor; a voltage convertor circuit that generates the threshold voltage according to a voltage of the external terminal that is generated by flowing a current through the external resistor, the threshold voltage being applied to an input terminal of each of the voltage comparator circuits; and a detection result output terminal for outputting a detection result by the fault detection circuit.
G01R 31/28 - Testing of electronic circuits, e.g. by signal tracer
H03K 5/24 - Circuits having more than one input and one output for comparing pulses or pulse trains with each other according to input signal characteristics, e.g. slope, integral the characteristic being amplitude
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OPTICAL-ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE
Provided are an optical element drive device, a camera module, and a camera-equipped device that are small and low-profile but also improve drive performance and noise reduction performance. An optical element drive device that comprises a fixed part, a mobile part that is separated from the fixed part in the optical axis direction, a support part that supports the mobile part on the fixed part, a drive unit that moves the mobile part relative to the fixed part within an optical axis orthogonal plane that is orthogonal to the optical axis direction, and a tension coil spring that connects the fixed part and the mobile part and urges the fixed part and the mobile part toward each other. A damper material is provided to the tension coil spring.
An optical element driving device includes: a fixed part; a movable part disposed apart from the fixed part; a support part which supports the movable part with respect to the fixed part; and a driving unit which has an ultrasonic motor that converts a vibration motion into a linear motion and a power transmission part that transmits the driving force of the ultrasonic motor to the movable part, and moves the movable Dart with respect to the fixed Dart, wherein the power transmission part has a plate which is in contact with a resonance part of the ultrasonic motor, and a damper material is disposed on a second surface side opposite to a first surface which is in contact with the resonance part in the plate.
This drive unit comprises: an ultrasonic motor that converts the oscillation of a piezoelectric element to linear movement; a contact part that contacts a resonating part; a support part that is connected to a moveable part and supports the contact part; and an impelling part which is coupled to the contact part and which impels the contact part toward the resonating part so that the contact part moves in accordance with the resonance of the resonating part and transmits impelling force to the moveable part via the support part.
G02B 7/10 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification by relative axial movement of several lenses, e.g. of varifocal objective lens
H02N 2/02 - Electric machines in general using piezoelectric effect, electrostriction or magnetostriction producing linear motion, e.g. actuators; Linear positioners
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OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING APPARATUS, CAMERA MODULE AND CAMERA-EQUIPPED APPARATUS
An optical element driving apparatus includes: a coil and a magnet separately disposed at a movable part configured to hold an optical element and a fixing part configured to support the movable part, the coil and the magnet being configured to operate in conjunction with each other to move the movable part with respect to the fixing part; and a magnetic sensor configured to detect a position of the movable part based on a relative position with respect to the magnet. The magnetic sensor is mounted on a magnetic sensor substrate, the magnetic sensor substrate is housed in a recess provided in the fixing part.
An optical-element driving device includes: a fixing part; a movable part disposed apart from the fixing part; a supporting part configured to support the movable part with respect to the fixing part; a driving unit that includes an ultrasonic motor including a piezoelectric element and an active element configured to resonate with vibration of the piezoelectric element; and a passive element that moves relatively with respect to the active element; and that is configured such that the active element and the passive element make contact with each other in a biased manner to move the movable part with respect to the fixing part; and an enclosing portion enclosing, on the passive element, at least a part of a contact region between a passive-side contact portion of the passive element and an active-side contact portion of the active element.
G03B 5/04 - Vertical adjustment of lens; Rising fronts
B06B 1/02 - Processes or apparatus for generating mechanical vibrations of infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic frequency making use of electrical energy
B06B 1/06 - Processes or apparatus for generating mechanical vibrations of infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic frequency making use of electrical energy operating with piezoelectric effect or with electrostriction
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ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, which is equipped with a base section, a tongue-shaped section, multiple accommodation concave sections formed on the tongue-shaped section, and multiple protrusion sections extending from tip surfaces of the multiple accommodation sections toward a base end side, and multiple contacts, which are held on the tongue-shaped section of the housing so as to be arranged on a contact plane and extend linearly along an insertion/removal direction of a mating connector. Respective tip sections of the multiple contacts are located within the multiple accommodation concave sections, and the multiple protrusion sections are in contact with the tip sections of the multiple contacts. The multiple contacts are not bonded to the tongue-shaped section of the housing.
H01R 13/405 - Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
H01R 13/504 - Bases; Cases composed of different pieces different pieces being moulded, cemented, welded, e.g. ultrasonic, or swaged together
H01R 43/18 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for manufacturing bases or cases for contact members
The present invention improves the accuracy of detection of a gas being detected, by freely forming an optical path in three dimensions. An optical gas sensor device 100 comprises: a light source 2 that emits infrared radiation to a gas being detected; an optical filter 3 that transmits infrared radiation having a wavelength corresponding to the absorption wavelength of the gas being detected; a light receiving unit 4 that detects infrared radiation incoming through the optical filter 3 and generates a detection signal; and a cover 1 that covers the light source 2, the optical filter 3, and the light receiving unit 4. The cover 1 has a light guiding part 13 that guides the infrared radiation incoming from the light source 2 by reflections on the inner surface thereof to the light receiving unit 4 through the optical filter 3, has a pipe shape, and has a circular or oval cross-section perpendicular to the axial direction thereof.
G01N 21/359 - Investigating relative effect of material at wavelengths characteristic of specific elements or molecules, e.g. atomic absorption spectrometry using infrared light using near infrared light
A direct current power supply apparatus that converts direct current input voltage supplied from a direct current power supply and that outputs a direct current voltage at a different potential is shown. The apparatus includes a switching power supply apparatus and a current stabilizing circuit connected at a stage before or after the switching power supply apparatus. The switching power supply apparatus includes, an oscillating circuit in which a frequency is variable and that generates an oscillating signal to apply a switching frequency, and an oscillating control circuit that generates an oscillating control voltage or an oscillating control current that changes the frequency of the oscillating circuit to the frequency longer than the switching frequency.
H02M 3/158 - Conversion of dc power input into dc power output without intermediate conversion into ac by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode using devices of a triode or transistor type requiring continuous application of a control signal using semiconductor devices only with automatic control of output voltage or current, e.g. switching regulators including plural semiconductor devices as final control devices for a single load
H02M 1/00 - APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF - Details of apparatus for conversion
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OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING APPARATUS, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED APPARATUS
The optical element driving apparatus includes: a fixing part; a movable part allowing an optical element to be held therein; a plurality of support members supporting the movable part with respect to the fixing part; and a driving part that moves the movable part in a direction of an optical axis. The plurality of support members is formed of an elastic resin material, and each of the plurality of support members includes a movable-side connection part, which is connected to the movable part, and a fixed-side connection part, which is connected to the fixing part. A plurality of the movable-side connection parts and a plurality of the fixed-side connection parts are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction around the optical axis.
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
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OPTICAL GAS SENSOR DEVICE, GAS DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM
The present invention ensures the accuracy of gas detection and achieves simplified device configuration. An optical gas sensor device 100 comprises: a light source 2 that emits infrared rays to gas G being detected; an optical filter 3 that transmits rays having a wavelength corresponding to the absorption wavelength of the gas G being detected; a light receiving unit 4 that detects infrared rays incoming through the optical filter 3 and generates a detection signal; and a signal processing unit 5 that calculates, from the detection signal, the gas concentration of the gas G being detected or a value corresponding to the gas concentration, compares the calculated gas concentration or value corresponding to the gas concentration against a preset threshold value, and determines the state of the optical gas sensor device 100 according to the result of the comparison.
G01N 21/3504 - Investigating relative effect of material at wavelengths characteristic of specific elements or molecules, e.g. atomic absorption spectrometry using infrared light for analysing gases, e.g. multi-gas analysis
An object is to improve the electromigration resistance and stress migration resistance of a light source. This optical gas sensor device includes: a light source 2 that emits infrared rays to a gas to be detected; an optical filter that transmits infrared rays having a wavelength corresponding to the absorption wavelength of the gas to be detected; and a light receiving unit that detects infrared rays incident thereon through the optical filter and generates a detection signal. The light source 2 includes: a Si substrate 211; a light source layer 221 provided on the Si substrate 211 and emitting infrared rays; electrodes 231 and 232 electrically connected to the light source layer 221 and supplying current to the light source layer 221; a protective layer 214 provided on the surface of the light source 2; and an electrode support layer 213 that supports the electrodes 231 and 232 and consists of an insulator that has a smaller difference in thermal expansion coefficient with the electrodes than the difference in thermal expansion coefficient between the protective layer 214 and the electrodes 231 and 232.
G01N 21/3504 - Investigating relative effect of material at wavelengths characteristic of specific elements or molecules, e.g. atomic absorption spectrometry using infrared light for analysing gases, e.g. multi-gas analysis
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OPTICAL ACTUATOR, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE
An optical actuator is an optical actuator configured to move an optical element by a driving part, and includes a movable-side member including a base portion configured to hold the optical element, and a fixed-side member configured to support the movable-side member such that the movable-side member is movable, in which the movable-side member includes a cushioning member that is engaged with the base portion to be prevented from coming off.
G02B 27/64 - Imaging systems using optical elements for stabilisation of the lateral and angular position of the image
G02B 7/08 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted to co-operate with a remote control mechanism
An optical element driving device driving an optical element in the optical path direction includes: a holding part capable of holding the optical element; an housing part that surrounds a circumference of the holding part and houses the holding part; and inside the housing part, a support part including a first support part and a second support part disposed on the circumference at different positions, and supports the holding part to be movable in the optical path direction by pressing the holding part by the first support part and engaging the second support part with the holding part in accordance with the pressing. The support part is configured to allow adjustment of an engagement position between the second support part and the holding part by relatively displacing facing portions of the second support part and the holding part in a circumferential direction according to the pressing.
G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
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OPTICAL ACTUATOR, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE
An optical actuator is an optical actuator configured to move an optical element by a driving part, and includes a movable-side member configured to hold the optical element, a fixed-side member configured to support the movable-side member such that the movable-side member is movable, and a cushioning member disposed on the movable-side member, in which the cushioning member includes a first cushioning surface and a second cushioning surface that face the fixed-side member at respective different distances.
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
G03B 17/12 - Bodies with means for supporting objectives, supplementary lenses, filters, masks, or turrets
A high-frequency circuit includes a signal wire connecting a pair of signal terminals; and a reference potential wire arranged along and close to the signal wire and connecting a pair of reference potential terminals.
The present invention provides a technique for making a film bulk acoustic resonator with ease, at low cost. A film bulk acoustic resonator, according to one aspect of the present disclosure has: a substrate having a first main surface; an oxide film provided over the first main surface; and a laminated film provided over the oxide film and including a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode laminated in this order, and, in this film bulk acoustic resonator, a void where the oxide film is removed is provided between the substrate and the first electrode, and the piezoelectric layer has a through-hole that communicates with the void.
H03H 9/17 - Constructional features of resonators consisting of piezoelectric or electrostrictive material having a single resonator
H03H 3/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of impedance networks, resonating circuits, resonators for the manufacture of electromechanical resonators or networks for the manufacture of piezoelectric or electrostrictive resonators or networks
A technique is provided herein whereby the size of piezoelectric filters can be reduced. A piezoelectric filter according to one aspect of the present disclosure has: a first substrate having a first main surface; a second substrate having a second main surface facing the first main surface; and a ladder circuit of Nth order, including N piezoelectric resonators, N being an integer of 3 or greater. In this piezoelectric filter, the first-order to Mth-order piezoelectric resonators included in the ladder circuit are formed on the first main surface, M being an integer from 1 to N−1, inclusive, and the (M+1)th-order to Nth-order piezoelectric resonators included in the ladder circuit are formed on the second main surface.
A secondary battery protection apparatus includes a temperature sensitive element having a characteristic value that varies in accordance with a change in temperature of a secondary battery. The secondary battery protection apparatus includes a switching circuit provided in a charge-and-discharge path between a secondary battery and an external device. The secondary battery protection apparatus includes a secondary battery protection circuit configured to control charge and discharge using the switching circuit to protect the secondary battery from temperature. The secondary battery protection circuit includes a comparison circuit configured to compare a voltage against a threshold voltage, the voltage corresponding to the change in the temperature of the secondary battery. The secondary battery protection circuit includes a conversion circuit that is controlled such that a first input of the comparison circuit is electrically coupled to a first terminal of the secondary battery protection circuit.
H02J 7/04 - Regulation of the charging current or voltage
H02J 7/00 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
H01M 10/48 - Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator which includes a base portion including a bottom portion, and a pair of wall portions erected from both ends of the bottom portion; a movable body including a shaft portion rotatably supported by the pair of the wall portions via a bearing in such a manner that a movable magnet disposed at an outer side surface of one wall portion of the pair of the wall portions; and a drive unit including a core body and a coil body, the drive unit being attached to the outer side surface of the one wall portion, wherein another wall portion of the pair of wall portions is configured to be detachable from or adjustable in position with respect to the bottom portion.
H02K 33/18 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with coil systems moving upon intermittent or reversed energisation thereof by interaction with a fixed field system, e.g. permanent magnets
H02K 33/12 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with armatures moving in alternate directions by alternate energisation of two coil systems
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LENS DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-EQUIPPED DEVICE
This lens driving device comprises a movable part, a driving part that has an ultrasonic motor and drives the movable part in the direction of an optical axis, and a shaft part that extends in the direction of the optical axis and supports the movable part. The driving part has a move section that is supported by the shaft part so as to be movable in the direction of the optical axis, and a support section that is connected to the move section and supports the movable part at a position closer to the optical axis side than the shaft part.
G02B 7/00 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements
H02N 2/02 - Electric machines in general using piezoelectric effect, electrostriction or magnetostriction producing linear motion, e.g. actuators; Linear positioners
G03B 17/12 - Bodies with means for supporting objectives, supplementary lenses, filters, masks, or turrets
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POWER SUPPLY CONTROL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE
A power supply control semiconductor device that generates and outputs a drive pulse to turn on and off a switch, which is configured to intermittently supply a current to a primary winding of a voltage conversion transformer, in response to input of a voltage proportional to the current flowing through the primary winding of the voltage conversion transformer and an output voltage detection signal from a secondary side of the voltage conversion transformer is provided. The power supply control semiconductor device is in a no-lead resin-sealed package. The package includes external terminals including a first terminal as an input terminal, a second terminal provided next to the first terminal, and third terminals that have a lower breakdown voltage relative to the first terminal and are different from the second terminal. An interval between the first terminal and the second terminal is wider than each interval between the third terminals.
H02M 3/00 - Conversion of dc power input into dc power output
H02M 3/335 - Conversion of dc power input into dc power output with intermediate conversion into ac by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode to produce the intermediate ac using devices of a triode or a transistor type requiring continuous application of a control signal using semiconductor devices only
H01L 23/31 - Encapsulation, e.g. encapsulating layers, coatings characterised by the arrangement
An electrical connector contains a first contact group arranged on a first contact plane, a second contact group arranged on a second contact plane and a ground plate located on a ground plane. The ground plate is located between horizontally extending portions of the contacts of the first contact group and horizontally extending portions, downwardly extending portions and terminal portions of the contacts of the second contact group in addition to between contacting portions and the horizontally extending portions of the contacts of the first contact group and contacting portions and the horizontally extending portions of the contacts of the second contact group.
An optical-element driving device includes: a holding groove formed in a first fixing part to hold a first supporting part; and a first biasing part including an elastic member and a spacer that are disposed with the first supporting part in the holding groove. The first biasing part biases the first supporting part toward a first movable part by the elastic member via the spacer. The first supporting part includes a pair of ball rows arranged at an interval from each other outside of the first movable part. Each ball row is parallel to an optical axis. The ball rows being held respectively by different ones of a plurality of the holding grooves. The first biasing part biases one of the ball rows obliquely with respect to a formation direction in which one of the holding grooves for holding another one of the ball rows is formed.
H04N 23/68 - Control of cameras or camera modules for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations
H04N 23/55 - Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
H04N 23/52 - Elements optimising image sensor operation, e.g. for electromagnetic interference [EMI] protection or temperature control by heat transfer or cooling elements
An insulated power supply apparatus includes, a transformer; a switching element connected in series with a primary side winding of the transformer; an active clamp circuit connected between terminals of the primary side winding of the transformer; and a power supply control semiconductor device. The switching element includes a field effect transistor and a current-voltage conversion element is connected between a source terminal of the switching element and a grounding point. The power supply control semiconductor device includes the following, a first external terminal in which voltage according to a drain side of the switching element is input, a second external terminal in which voltage converted by the current-voltage conversion element is input, an on/off control circuit that performs turn-on and turn-off of the switching element, and a ZVS determining circuit that determines whether zero voltage switching control is performed.
H02M 1/00 - APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF - Details of apparatus for conversion
H02M 1/08 - Circuits specially adapted for the generation of control voltages for semiconductor devices incorporated in static converters
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OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-EQUIPPED DEVICE
This optical element driving device is provided with: a movable part capable of holding an optical element; a driving part that includes an ultrasonic motor and drives the movable part; a voltage boosting part having an inductor that boosts input voltage inputted to the driving part and supplies the boosted input voltage to the ultrasonic motor; a position detection part that detects the position of the movable part; and a substrate part on which the position detection part and the voltage boosting part are disposed.
A DC-DC converter that converts a DC input voltage supplied from a DC power supply and that outputs a DC voltage with a different potential is shown. The DC-DC converter includes the following. A control circuit controls a switching element in accordance with a potential difference between a feedback voltage proportional to an output voltage and a predetermined reference voltage. A current supply circuit that causes a predetermined current to flow. A voltage correction circuit that corrects the reference voltage or the feedback voltage. The voltage correction circuit is configured to determine a voltage correction amount, based on information about a resistance on a load side input from outside when a current of the current supply circuit is output, and correct the reference voltage or the feedback voltage.
H02M 1/00 - APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF - Details of apparatus for conversion
H02M 1/08 - Circuits specially adapted for the generation of control voltages for semiconductor devices incorporated in static converters
Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit device including: a switching transistor; a terminal to receive a control signal from outside; and a control circuit that controls the switching transistor based on the control signal. The control circuit includes: a reference voltage source that generates a reference voltage from the DC voltage; a differential amplifier to receive the reference voltage and a voltage of the voltage output terminal, and output a voltage applied to a control terminal of the switching transistor; and a logic circuit that generates a signal to control an operation state of the differential amplifier based on the control signal. According to an output signal of the logic circuit, the differential amplifier controls the switching transistor to be on in response to the control signal being a first logic level, and to be off in response to the control signal being a second logic level.
A push switch contains a circuit substrate, two fixed contacts disposed on the circuit substrate, a dome-shaped spring which is disposed above the two fixed contacts and can be displaced between a first position in which the two fixed contacts are in a non-conductive state and a second position in which the two fixed contacts are in a conductive state and a conductive elastic member disposed on a surface of the dome-shaped spring facing the circuit substrate and having a surface facing the two fixed contacts. At least the surface of the conductive elastic member facing the two fixed contacts has conductivity. When the dome-shaped spring is displaced to the second position, the two fixed contacts are in the conductive state through the conductive elastic member.
H01H 13/702 - Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a plurality of operating members associated with different sets of contacts, e.g. keyboard with contacts carried by or formed from layers in a multilayer structure, e.g. membrane switches
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Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes first and second trenches, and a first layer provided therebetween, in a principal surface of a semiconductor substrate, a second layer in contact with and sandwiching the first trench with the first layer, a third layer provided under the second layer and in contact with the second layer and the first trench, a fourth layer provided under and in contact with the third layer but separated from the first trench, and a fifth layer provided in the principal surface and sandwiching the second trench with the first layer. The second and fourth layers are semiconductors of a first conductivity type, and the first, third, and fifth layers are semiconductors of a second conductivity type. A gate trench electrode is provided inside the first trench via the insulating film, and an emitter trench electrode is provided inside the second trench via the insulating film.
H01L 29/739 - Transistor-type devices, i.e. able to continuously respond to applied control signals controlled by field effect
H01L 29/06 - Semiconductor bodies characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions
H01L 29/10 - Semiconductor bodies characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions with semiconductor regions connected to an electrode not carrying current to be rectified, amplified, or switched and such electrode being part of a semiconductor device which comprises three or more electrodes
This lens driving device is provided with a movable part, a driving part, a magnet part having a first pole and a second pole, and a position detection part that is disposed to face the magnet part, and detects the position of the magnet part by detecting a magnetic field on a plane including an optical axis direction and a width direction. A boundary extends while bending such that the angle formed with the optical axis direction changes.
G02B 7/10 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification by relative axial movement of several lenses, e.g. of varifocal objective lens
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OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-EQUIPPED DEVICE
This optical element driving device comprises: a movable side member that moves in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis by driving of a driving part while holding an optical element; a fixed side member that is disposed at a position separate from the movable side member in an optical axis direction, and supports the movable side member movably in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis via a rolling member; and a wire that is buried in the movable side member and/or the fixed side member and electrically connected to the driving part. The movable side member and the fixed side member each have a housing part forming surface that forms a housing part of the rolling member, and are exposed in a portion of the housing part forming surface such that the wire comes into contact with the rolling member.
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
G03B 15/00 - Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor
G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
H04N 23/55 - Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
H04N 23/57 - Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator includes: a movable body including a magnet fixed to a shaft portion; a fixing body including a plurality of magnetic poles, a first magnetic attraction member, and a second magnetic attraction member that are disposed to face an outer circumference of the magnet;, the plurality of magnetic poles including a plurality of coils, the first magnetic attraction member being configured to generate a first magnetic attraction force, the second magnetic attraction member being configured to generate a second magnetic attraction force, in which a magnetic flux passing through the plurality of magnetic poles is generated by energization of the plurality of coils, causing the reciprocating rotation of the movable body about an axis of the shaft portion with reference to the rotational center position by electromagnetic interaction between the magnetic flux and the magnet.
H02K 33/12 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with armatures moving in alternate directions by alternate energisation of two coil systems
An optical deflection apparatus includes a movable member configured to deflect incident light from a light emitter, and a lid member configured to cover the movable member. The lid member includes an opening through which the incident light and deflected light of the incident light pass. The deflected light is deflected by the movable member. The lid member includes a light attenuation portion configured to attenuate reflected light of the incident light or of the deflected light. The reflected light is reflected by the lid member.
H01S 3/101 - Lasers provided with means to change the location from which, or the direction in which, laser radiation is emitted
G02B 26/08 - Optical devices or arrangements for the control of light using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the direction of light
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OPTICAL ACTUATOR, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE
An optical actuator is configured to include: a movable part on which a lens part is mountable, the movable part being configured to move by driving of a driving part; a fixing part accommodating the movable part; and a first shaft and a second shaft that are spaced apart from each other in a width direction of the movable part, and are fixed to the fixing part, in which the movable part is configured to slide on the first shaft and the second shaft while making contact with the first shaft at two places in an axial direction and with the second shaft at one place in the axial direction. Thus, the optical actuator capable of stably supporting the movable part with respect to the fixing part is provided.
This optical element driving device (1) for driving an optical element comprises: a retaining part (10) having an opening that surrounds the outer periphery of an optical element and is capable of retaining the optical element; an accommodating part (20) for accommodating the retaining part in the inside thereof; and support parts (40A) having a plurality of contact parts (31) that come in contact with the retaining part in at least three positions distributed in the circumferential direction inside the accommodating part, the support parts (40A) supporting the retaining part so as to be able to move in an optical axis direction while the retaining part is pressed toward the inside of the opening by the plurality of contact parts.
G02B 7/04 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification
G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
G03B 15/00 - Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor
An optical element driving device according to the present invention comprises a moving part which is capable of holding an optical element, a driving part which drives the moving part by vibrating a piezoelectric element, and a voltage-raising part which raises input voltage that is input into the piezoelectric element, wherein the voltage-raising part has an inductor connected in series to the piezoelectric element and a capacitor connected in parallel to the piezoelectric element. A camera module according to the present invention comprises an optical element driving device and an imaging part which captures a subject image formed by an optical element. A camera-mounted device according to the present invention comprises a camera module and an image processing part which processes image information acquired by the camera module.
G02B 7/04 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification
G03B 15/00 - Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor
G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
This optical element driving device comprises: a first movable part configured to be movable in an optical axis direction by a first driving part in a state of holding an optical element; and a second movable part configured by stacking a first stage and a second stage on a base so as to be movable in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis together with the first movable part by a second driving part. The second driving part is disposed along each of two side surfaces orthogonal to each other of the second movable part, and the first driving part is disposed at each of diagonal positions of the second movable part.
G02B 7/04 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification
G02B 7/08 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted to co-operate with a remote control mechanism
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
G03B 15/00 - Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor
G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
An optical actuator is configured to include: a movable part including a mounting surface for an optical path bending member, and a recessed portion extending toward a center of the mounting surface at a back side of the mounting surface, the movable part being swung by driving of a driving part; and a fixing part including a protruding portion inserted into the recessed portion so as to define a swing center of the movable part as a position near the center of the mounting surface. Thus, an optical actuator capable of reducing the size of a product is provided.
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: one input terminal; multiple output terminals; multiple first current control elements connected between the input terminal and the respective output terminals; a control circuit that controls the first current control elements; a fault detection circuit that includes multiple voltage comparator circuits each of which compares a voltage proportional to a voltage of one of the output terminals with a predetermined threshold voltage and that detects an open-circuit state or a short-circuit state of the output terminals; an external terminal connected to an external resistor; a voltage convertor circuit that generates the threshold voltage according to a voltage of the external terminal that is generated by flowing a current through the external resistor, the threshold voltage being applied to an input terminal of each of the voltage comparator circuits; and a detection result output terminal for outputting a detection result by the fault detection circuit.
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H03K 5/24 - Circuits having more than one input and one output for comparing pulses or pulse trains with each other according to input signal characteristics, e.g. slope, integral the characteristic being amplitude
A central part (11) has a hollow part (11a) that extends in a forward/backward direction. A conductive wire (12) is wound about the central part (11). A first core and a second core are formed of a material including a magnetic substance. The first core has: a first inner portion (131a) that extends from one end of the central part (11) in the forward/backward direction into the hollow part (11a); and a first outer portion (131b) that is opposed to the conductive wire (12) at least from the upward direction and from a left-right direction. The second core has: a second inner portion (132a) that extends from the other end of the central part (11) in the forward/backward direction into the hollow part (11a); and a second outer portion (132b) that is opposed to the conductive wire (12) at least from the upward direction and from the left-right direction. A tip end of the first inner portion (131a) and a tip end of the second inner portion (132a) are opposed to each other in the forward/backward direction. The diameter of the tip end of the first inner portion (131a) is different from the diameter of the tip end of the second inner portion (132a).
A projection device 1 includes: a first pattern plate 11a having a first pattern; a second pattern plate 11b having a second pattern; a light source 12 for radiating light onto the first pattern plate 11a and the second pattern plate 11b; and a projection optical system 13 for projecting the first pattern and the second pattern onto an object 200 by focusing transmitted light which has been transmitted through the first pattern plate 11a and the second pattern plate 11b. The first pattern plate 11a and the second pattern plate 11b are provided between the light source 12 and the projection optical system 13 on an optical axis OA of the projection optical system 13.
This lens driving device comprises: a first movable part and a second movable part; a first driving part and a second driving part that are respectively disposed on the first movable part and on the second movable part, on one end side thereof; and a guide part. A first ultrasound motor and a second ultrasound motor are arranged on the one end side. The guide part includes a plurality of guide shafts that support both a first frame and a second frame in a movable manner.
G02B 7/08 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted to co-operate with a remote control mechanism
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator includes: a movable body including a shaft portion and a magnet fixed to the shaft portion; a fixing body including a core assembly, the core assembly including a core body and coils, the core body having magnetic poles, the core assembly being disposed such that the magnetic poles face an outer periphery of the magnet; and a pair of shaft supports configured to sandwich the core assembly in an extending direction of extension of the shaft portion and support the shaft portion at opposite sides of the core assembly such that the shaft portion is rotatable, in which a magnetic flux passing through the core body is generated by energization of the coils, causing reciprocating rotation of the movable body about an axis of the shaft portion by electromagnetic interaction between the magnetic flux and the magnet.
H02K 33/16 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system
H02K 33/18 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with coil systems moving upon intermittent or reversed energisation thereof by interaction with a fixed field system, e.g. permanent magnets
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OPTICAL ELEMENT DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA-MOUNTED DEVICE
This optical element driving device comprises: a movable part that can hold an optical element and has a circuit for driving the optical element; a fixing part that is disposed via a support member at a position spaced apart from the movable part in an optical axis direction and that oscillatably supports the movable part by the support member in an optical axis orthogonal direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction; a connection member that elastically connects the movable part and the fixing part so as to hold a state where the movable part and the fixing part hold the support member therebetween and that forms a conductive path between the circuit and the fixing part; and a non-conductive member that is formed from a non-conductive material and that is disposed so as to surround at least a portion of the periphery of the connection member such that the connection member opposes a portion elastically deformed in the optical axis orthogonal direction.
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
G02B 7/04 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification
G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
A driving-unit operation method includes: generating pulse blocks on the basis of driving pulses; and modifying a driving signal in accordance with a position error signal. In the modifying the driving signal, when the position error signal is in a first range, the shape of the driving pulses is modified so as to form a first driving-pulse shape, and the pulse-block duty cycle is set to a first pulse-block duty cycle value, whereas when the position error signal is in a second range, the shape of the driving pulses is modified so as to form a second driving-pulse shape, and the pulse-block duty cycle is set to a second pulse-block duty cycle value.
G02B 7/08 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted to co-operate with a remote control mechanism
G02B 27/64 - Imaging systems using optical elements for stabilisation of the lateral and angular position of the image
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
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LENS DRIVE DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND CAMERA MOUNT DEVICE
This lens drive device is provided with: a first movable part; a second movable part; a first drive part; and a second drive part. The first drive part and the second drive part respectively have a first ultrasonic motor and a second ultrasonic motor. The first ultrasonic motor and the second ultrasonic motor are arranged on sides opposite to each other with respect an optical axis, and independently drive the first movable part and the second movable part in the optical axis direction.
G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
This optical scanning device includes: a shaft part to which a mirror part is connected; a movable magnet; a base part; a ball bearing; a core unit that has a core body and a coil body and rotationally drives the movable magnet; and a magnet position holding member that is a magnetic body provided facing the movable magnet and magnetically attracts the movable magnet to a reference position. The core unit is disposed on the outer surface side of one wall section of a pair of wall sections of the base part. An angle sensor unit for detecting the rotation angle position of the shaft part is disposed between the core unit and the one wall section.
A lens drive device is provided with: a lens holder for holding a lens; an ultrasonic motor configured to move the lens holder in a direction of an optical axis; and a support part configured to support the lens holder in a state where the lens holder is urged in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis and such that the lens holder is capable of moving in the direction of the optical axis. The support part includes two pairs of support portions which are disposed respectively on two straight lines along an urging direction and parallel to each other such that the support portions of each pair holds the lend holder therebetween.
G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
H04N 23/55 - Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
H02N 2/02 - Electric machines in general using piezoelectric effect, electrostriction or magnetostriction producing linear motion, e.g. actuators; Linear positioners
A push switch contains a case including a containing portion and a sealing groove; a pair of contacts disposed in the containing portion so as to be spaced apart from each other; a movable contact which is disposed above the pair of contacts in the containing portion; a cap including a base portion disposed on the case and a sealing protrusion protruding from a peripheral edge portion of the base portion toward a lower side for liquid-tightly sealing the sealing groove of the case; and a cover attached to the case from an upper side so as to hold the cap on the case. The sealing protrusion of the cap is compressively deformed in the sealing groove of the case, and thereby the sealing groove of the case is liquid-tightly sealed.
A rotary reciprocating driving actuator includes: a movable member including a shaft part and a magnet; and a fixing body including a core assembly including a magnetic pole core with an integral structure including a plurality of magnetic poles, a plurality of coils disposed next to the plurality of magnetic poles, and a magnetic path core to which the magnetic pole core is assembled, wherein the core assembly is disposed such that the plurality of magnetic poles faces an outer periphery of the magnet, wherein a magnetic flux that passes through a magnetic path configured of the magnetic path core and the magnetic pole core of the integral structure is generated through energization of the plurality of coils, and the movable member is rotated back and forth around an axis of the shaft part through electromagnetic interaction of the magnetic flux and the magnet.
H02K 33/12 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with armatures moving in alternate directions by alternate energisation of two coil systems
G02B 26/08 - Optical devices or arrangements for the control of light using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the direction of light
G02B 26/12 - Scanning systems using multifaceted mirrors
The present invention allows the voltages of a plurality of cells of a fuel battery to be measured without using an additional component such as another connector or wiring even when the number of channels for measurement of a measuring instrument is limited. A cell voltage cell monitor connector (1) for a fuel battery includes: a plurality of cell voltage measuring terminals (2) respectively connected to a plurality of cells (110) of a cell unit; a zero set voltage measuring terminal (3) connected to a cell (110) stacked from the negative direction side of a stacking direction on a cell located first on the negative direction side of the stacking direction among the plurality of cells (110) of the cell unit; and a housing (4) holding the plurality of cell voltage measuring terminals (2) and the zero set voltage measuring terminal (3).
A flow creation system 1 comprises: a beacon transmitter 3 that transmits a beacon signal 31 with a predetermined frequency of transmission; a cluster-type network CN that includes an end receiver layer composed of a plurality of end receiver units ER configured to receive the beacon signal 31 transmitted from the beacon transmitter 3 and a reporter layer composed of a plurality of reporter units R configured to receive first report data 7 on the intensity of the beacon signal 31, which is received by each of the plurality of end receiver units ER, from each of the plurality of end receiver units ER and generate second report data 8; and an application device 5 that creates, on the basis of the second report data 8, a flow to be tracked.
G08G 1/13 - Traffic control systems for road vehicles indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles to a central station the indicator being in the form of a map
G06Q 30/06 - Buying, selling or leasing transactions
G01S 5/02 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using radio waves
A droplet sensor includes an optical cover having a curved surface that forms a part of a spheroid, a protective film that covers the curved surface of the optical cover, a light source provided at a first focal point of an ellipse facing the curved surface, and a photodetector provided at a second focal point of the ellipse. The refractive index of the protective film is greater than the refractive index of a liquid to be detected. A sensing region is determined by a range of an incident angle at which a light beam emitted from the light source and incident onto the curved surface is totally reflected at the interface between the protective film and a gas, and is not totally reflected at the interface between the protective film and the liquid to be detected.
A secondary battery protection circuit includes a potential-difference control circuit. The potential-difference control circuit provides, when overcharge is detected by an overcharge detection circuit, a control terminal of a charge control transistor with feedback on a potential-difference detection signal to control a potential difference between an electrode of a secondary battery and a terminal for a load and charger. The potential-difference control circuit provides, when overdischarge is detected by an overdischarge detection circuit, a control terminal of each of the charge control transistor and a discharge control transistor with feedback on the potential-difference detection signal to control the potential difference.
A container that is disposed and used inside a housing hole formed in a road surface and comprises a support that extends towards the outside from a side surface of the main body of the container, curves when the main body is inserted into the housing hole, an outer end section abutting an inside wall of the housing hole, and supports the main body so as to maintain the position of the main body inside the housing hole. The vehicle detection device comprises: a vehicle detection unit that detects the presence of a vehicle; and a container that houses the vehicle detection unit therein. The container support supports, inside the housing hole formed in a road surface, a container disposed and used inside the housing hole, and comprises: a holding unit that detachably holds the container; and a support that extends from the holding unit so as to face the outside from a side surface of the container, curves when the container is inserted into the housing hole, an outer end section abutting an inside wall of the housing hole, and supports the container so as to maintain the position of the container inside the housing hole.
E01F 11/00 - Embedding pads or other sensitive devices in paving or other road surfaces
G08G 1/042 - Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled using inductive or magnetic detectors
E01F 9/506 - Road surface markings; Kerbs or road edgings, specially adapted for alerting road users characterised by the road surface marking material, e.g. comprising additives for improving friction or reflectivity; Methods of forming, installing or applying markings in, on or to road surfaces
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Magnetic detection device and semiconductor integrated circuit for amplifying magnetic detection signal
A magnetic detection device that comprises an amplification circuit amplifying a detection signal from a magnetic sensor that is positioned, for example, in a location where an alternating current magnetic field enters as noise, and detects an alternating current magnetic field targeted for monitoring, said magnetic detection device further comprising: timer circuits that are activated in response to a change in the output of the amplification circuit, and if these clock a prescribed time, the outputs thereof change; a logic circuit that treats the outputs of the timer circuits as inputs; and an oscillation circuit for generating an operation clock signal for the timer circuits. The timer circuits are structured such that if the output of the amplification circuit changes to a different direction before the clocking of the prescribed time is complete, the timer circuits are reset.
An antenna device comprising: a chassis; a substrate; a flat antenna unit disposed on a first surface of the substrate on a side opposite a predetermined wall; a circuit unit disposed on a second surface of the substrate on the predetermined wall side, and electrically connected to the flat antenna unit; and a shield member disposed in a position in a part of the predetermined wall opposite the circuit unit, to shield unwanted waves emitted from the circuit unit.
A ranging device includes a light emitting circuit configured to emit light and a splitter configured to split the light into multiple beams. The ranging device includes a scanning circuit configured to perform scanning in two axial directions while aiming the multiple beams toward an emission area. The ranging device includes multiple light receiving circuits configured to respectively receive beams obtained from the multiple beams that are reflected or scattered by an object existing in the emission area, the light receiving circuits being configured to respectively output light reception signals. The ranging device includes a distance-information outputting circuit configured to output distance information about the object, the distance information being obtained based on each of the light reception signals that is output from a corresponding light receiving circuit among the multiple light receiving circuits.
A sensing device includes a lead frame, a first insulating film, a semiconductor integrated circuit chip provided over the lead frame via the first insulating film, and a first bonding wire via which an external derivation lead and the semiconductor integrated circuit chip are electrically coupled to each other. The sensing device includes a sensor chip disposed over the semiconductor integrated circuit chip such that a first surface of the sensor chip faces the semiconductor integrated circuit chip. The sensing device includes a sensor provided on a second surface of the sensor chip. The sensing device includes a molding resin with which the lead frame, the semiconductor integrated circuit chip, the sensor chip, and the first bonding wire are sealed. The sensor chip is electrically coupled to the semiconductor integrated circuit chip, and the molding resin has an opening in which the sensor is exposed.
An electrical connector includes contact pins, insulating housings for containing the contact pins therein and metallic outer contacts for respectively covering the housings. Each of the contact pins includes a horizontally extending portion, a contact portion, a connection portion, a downwardly extending portion and a press-fitting shoulder extending from a side portion of a base end portion of the horizontally extending portion in a width direction thereof. A width of the press-fitting shoulder of each of the contact pins decreases from a base side toward a tip side.
H01R 24/40 - Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure having concentrically or coaxially arranged contacts specially adapted for high frequency
H01R 13/24 - Contacts for co-operating by abutting resiliently mounted
H01R 13/504 - Bases; Cases composed of different pieces different pieces being moulded, cemented, welded, e.g. ultrasonic, or swaged together
H01R 13/516 - Means for holding or embracing insulating body, e.g. casing
H01R 12/72 - Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
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INCORRECT INSERTION PREVENTION STRUCTURE FOR PLUG, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
This incorrect insertion prevention structure 250 includes: a screw hole 261 that can be engaged with a lock screw 1060 when a plug terminal 1030 in a normal orientation P1 is connected with a receptacle 810; and a protrusion 270 that protrudes from the perimeter of the receptacle 810, allows connection of the receptacle 810 and the plug terminal 1030 in the normal orientation P1, and restricts connection of the receptacle 810 and the plug terminal 1030 while in a reverse orientation P2.
In a camera 100, a lens unit 420 and an image capturing element 600 that receives light input thereto from the lens unit 420 are connected to each other via a distance increasing member 110 and a distance decreasing member 120, the distance increasing member 110 increasing the separation distance D between the lens unit 420 and the image capturing element 600 in response to a thermal variation, and the distance decreasing member 120 decreasing the separation distance D between the lens unit 420 and the image capturing element 600 in response to a thermal variation.
G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
G02B 7/04 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification
A camera 100 has a cylinder 300 and a lens assembly 400 positioned inside the cylinder 300. The cylinder 300 has: a small-diameter section 310 having a screw thread 311 formed in the outer circumference thereof; a medium-diameter section 320 positioned to the rear of the small-diameter section 310 and having a larger outer diameter than does the small-diameter section 310; a large-diameter section 330 positioned to the rear of the medium-diameter section 320 and having a larger outer diameter than does the medium-diameter section 320; and a stepped surface 350 positioned between the medium-diameter section 320 and the large-diameter section 330. The cylinder 300 is inserted into a through-hole 2040 of an attachment 2000, and a fastener 2900 is fastened to the attachment 2000 by being screwed onto the screw threads 311 from the light-receiving side of the attachment 2000 in the optical axis direction while the stepped surface 350 abuts the attachment 2000.
G02B 7/04 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification
Electrical connector which can prevent deformation of core wire of coaxial cable caused by applied pressure onto the coaxial cable at time of crimping outer contact onto the coaxial cable
An electrical connector includes a contact pin to be connected to a core wire of a coaxial cable, an insulating housing for holding the contact pin therein, a cylindrical outer contact covering the housing and a crimping member for attaching the outer contact to the coaxial cable. A base end portion of the outer contact is located between an inner insulator layer and an outer conductor layer of the coaxial cable. The outer contact is attached to the coaxial cable by crimping the crimping member onto the outer conductor layer of the coaxial cable located on the base end portion of the outer contact.
H01R 4/18 - Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation effected solely by twisting, wrapping, bending, crimping, or other permanent deformation by crimping
H01R 24/40 - Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure having concentrically or coaxially arranged contacts specially adapted for high frequency
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a wafer that includes a device region and a peripheral region of the device region, the device region including multiple chip regions. The method includes removing a portion of the peripheral region such that the removed portion has an annular shape. The method includes forming a protective layer on a first surface of the wafer. The method includes grinding a second surface of the wafer in which the protective layer is formed on the first surface.
H01L 21/304 - Mechanical treatment, e.g. grinding, polishing, cutting
H01L 21/78 - Manufacture or treatment of devices consisting of a plurality of solid state components or integrated circuits formed in, or on, a common substrate with subsequent division of the substrate into plural individual devices
H01L 21/56 - Encapsulations, e.g. encapsulating layers, coatings
H01L 21/027 - Making masks on semiconductor bodies for further photolithographic processing, not provided for in group or
A camera 100 comprises a cylinder 300, a lens assembly 400 that is disposed within the cylinder 300, an imaging element 600 that receives light incident from the lens assembly 400, and a moving mechanism 500 that moves the lens assembly 400 in an optical axis direction LL within the cylinder 300 by applying, to the lens assembly 400, force in the optical axis direction LL from the image formation side in the optical axis direction LL.
G02B 7/04 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification
G02B 7/08 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted to co-operate with a remote control mechanism
A lens cover assembly 900 includes: a cap 910 that comprises a ring-shaped body portion 911, a ring-shaped wall portion 912 extending from the body portion 910, a receiving portion 913 formed on the inner circumferential surface of the wall portion 912, and an engaging portion 914 protruding outwardly from the outer circumferential surface of the wall portion 912; a lens cover 920 that is accommodated in the receiving portion 913 of the cap 910; and a fixing member 930 that comprises a ring-shaped body portion 931, a wall portion 932 extending from the outer edge of the body portion 931, and a tab portion 933 protruding inwardly from the inner circumferential surface of the wall portion 932. By engaging the engaging portion 914 of the cap 910 with the tab portion 933 of the fixing member 930, the fixing member 930 is attached to the cap 910, and the lens cover 920 is retained in the receiving portion 913 of the cap 910.
Disclosed is a reset semiconductor integrated circuit that outputs a reset signal in response to a power supply voltage of a monitoring target becoming lower than a predetermined level, the reset semiconductor integrated circuit including: a voltage detection circuit; an output stage including a CMOS circuit that generates and outputs a signal according to a detection result of the voltage detection circuit; a monitored voltage input terminal to which the power supply voltage of the monitoring target is input; a reference potential terminal to which a voltage as a reference potential of a circuit is applied; an external voltage terminal which is connected to a power supply voltage terminal of the output stage to allow a power supply voltage as an operation voltage of the output stage to be applied from outside; and an output terminal to output the signal generated by the output stage.
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator capable of increasing the size and amplitude of a movable object such as a mirror, and of stabilizing the drive performance is provided. The rotary reciprocating drive actuator includes a movable part including a rotating shaft, a fixed part supporting the rotating shaft, and a driving part that includes a coil and a core disposed on the fixed part and a magnet disposed on the rotating shaft, and rotates the rotating shaft about the axis thereof with respect to the fixed part by utilizing electromagnetic interaction. The fixed part includes first and second supports disposed so as to face each other with the magnet therebetween in the axial direction. The rotating shaft is rotatably attached to the first and second supports via first and second bearings. One of the first and second bearings is a rolling bearing, and the other is a slide bearing.
G02B 26/08 - Optical devices or arrangements for the control of light using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the direction of light
A lens driving device includes: a movable part for accommodating a lens; and an ultrasonic motor having a resonance part configured to move the movable part by motion of the resonance part of the ultrasonic motor. The resonance part has a pair of arms, and is disposed such that only one of the arms is in contact with the movable part.
G02B 7/09 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification adapted for automatic focusing or varying magnification
G02B 27/64 - Imaging systems using optical elements for stabilisation of the lateral and angular position of the image
G03B 5/04 - Vertical adjustment of lens; Rising fronts
H02N 2/02 - Electric machines in general using piezoelectric effect, electrostriction or magnetostriction producing linear motion, e.g. actuators; Linear positioners
H04N 5/232 - Devices for controlling television cameras, e.g. remote control
Parking detection sensor (100) has a Doppler sensor (110), a magnetic sensor (120) that detects magnetism on XYZ axes, a change point detection unit (130) that detects a change point in the output of the Doppler sensor (110) and the magnetic sensor (120), a level difference detection unit (140) that detects the magnetic level difference over time in the output of the Doppler sensor (110) and the magnetic sensor (120), and a state assessment unit (150) that assesses the parking state of a vehicle on the basis of the detection results of the change point detection unit (130) and the detection results of the level difference detection unit (140).
An optical deflection apparatus includes an optical deflection part configured to deflect light incident on a reflection surface by swinging the reflection surface about a swing axis, and a light transmission plate configured to transmit the light deflected by the optical deflection part, wherein an inclination angle of the light transmission plate with reference to a reference surface is equal to or greater than twice a maximum swing angle of the reflection surface with reference to the reference surface.
An optical deflection apparatus includes a first optical deflection part configured to deflect light incident on a first reflection surface, by swinging the first reflection surface about a first swing axis, and a second optical deflection part configured to deflect the light deflected by the first reflection surface, by swinging a second reflection surface about a second swing axis crossing the first swing axis. The first swing axis crosses a first incidence plane including a central axis of the light incident on the first reflection surface and a central axis of the light deflected by the first reflection surface, and the second swing axis crosses a second incidence plane including a central axis of the light incident on the second reflection surface and a central axis of the light deflected by the second reflection surface.
An electrical connector contains a first contact group arranged on a first contact plane, a second contact group arranged on a second contact plane and a ground plate located on a ground plane. The ground plate is located between horizontally extending portions of the contacts of the first contact group and horizontally extending portions, downwardly extending portions and terminal portions of the contacts of the second contact group in addition to between contacting portions and the horizontally extending portions of the contacts of the first contact group and contacting portions and the horizontally extending portions of the contacts of the second contact group.
