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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7053514 | Image apparatus and drive motor A drive motor is proposed, which serves as a drive source for a movement mechanism constituting an iris for an optical path of an imaging system. The drive motor has a shaft serving as a center of rotation, a magnet, two-pole magnetized and rotated around the shaft,... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6491450 | Shutter for a camera To prevent rebounding motion of sectors caused in stopping the sectors and achieve small-sized formation of a shutter, there is provided a shutter for a camera including sectors for opening and closing a shutter opening by reciprocal and pivotal movement,... | 12/10/2002 |
| 5781816 | Electromagnetic device for providing a hard stop for moving blade aperture systems An hard stop is disclosed for use with an aperture mechanism that has at least one blade moveable along a path between a closed position and at least one open position, and at least one hard stop piston that is moveable between a first position, out of th... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5262812 | Blades actuation device for light path Actuation device of the invention is used for opening and closing blades for defining light path, i.e. a diaphragm of a camera. The actuation device includes an axle with a permanent magnet, a frame for rotationally receiving the permanent magnet, a hollo... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5121148 | Single lens reflex camera A camera 14 has a shutter 42 that is reciprocally movable by a motor 54 that is in positive engagement with the shutter 42. The motor 54 provides harmonic motion to the shutter 42 between its open and closed positions. A second motor 78 advances the film ... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4669841 | Rotary shutter A rotary shutter adapted to be used in an electronic still camera comprises a rotatable shutter having shutter openings which are variable in size. The shutter is rotated by an electric motor in order to open and close intermittently an exposure aperture ... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4312583 | Electromagnetically driven shutter device An electromagnetic device for driving a shutter includes a moving coil which is arranged to rotate in the magnetic field of a stator. A current supply arrangement for supplying exciting current to the moving coil includes a pair of insulated side pieces f... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4302090 | Antibounce device for electromagnetically driven shutter An antibounce device for an electromagnetically driven shutter of a camera in which a braking current flowing in the direction reverse to the direction of a driving current is supplied to a shutter blade driving coil for a predetermined period of time imm... | 11/24/1981 |
