DRIVING DEVICE AND LIGHT AMOUNT ADJUSTING DEVICE

• US 20070090698A1
• Filed: 09/28/2006
• Published: 04/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yasuda, Hiromu
• Granted Patent: US 7,560,836 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/12.26
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 7/10 a servo-motor providing energy to move the setting member
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 9/10 Blade or disc rotating or pivoting about axis normal to its plane
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 9/22 each moving in one direction to open and then in opposite direction to close, e.g. iris type
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/088 radially supporting the rotor directly
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/14 Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans with fan or impeller for cooling the machine H02K9/06

Abstract

A light amount adjusting device mounted with a driving device which can have a reduced size in the direction of thickness. In this controller, a magnet is formed into a hollow circular disk shape and has at least one disk surface magnetized to have alternately different poles in the circumferential direction thereof. A rotor yoke is supported by a bobbin for rotation relative to the magnet, and has magnetic pole parts extending radially of the magnet and facing the magnetized disk surface of the magnet. A stator yoke is disposed on the side remote from the rotor yoke with respect to the magnet and fixed with the magnet. A coil is fixed to the stator yoke and magnetizes the magnetic pole parts of the rotor yoke. Shutter blades are disposed radially inside the magnet.

Claims

1. A driving device comprising:

a magnet formed into a hollow circular disk shape, at least one disk surface of said magnet being magnetized to have alternately different poles in a circumferential direction thereof;

a rotor yoke disposed for rotation relative to said magnet, said rotor yoke having magnetic pole parts thereof extending radially of said magnet and facing the magnetized disk surface of said magnet;

a stator yoke disposed on a side remote from said rotor yoke with respect to said magnet, with said magnet interposed between said stator yoke and said rotor yoke, said stator yoke being fixed with said magnet; and

a coil, fixed to said stator yoke, for magnetizing the magnetic pole parts of said rotor yoke.

2. A driving device according to claim 1, wherein said coil and said magnet are disposed coaxially with each other, said coil being disposed radially outside said magnet.

3. A driving device according to claim 1, wherein said coil and said magnet are disposed coaxially with each other, said coil being disposed radially inside said magnet.

4. A driving device according to claim 1, comprising a bearing member made of a nonmagnetic material, and wherein said bearing member is interposed between said rotor yoke and said stator yoke so that these yokes are not in direct contact with each other and said rotor yoke is rotatably supported by said bearing member.

5. A driving device according to claim 4, comprising a bobbin around which said coil is wound, and wherein said bobbin also serves as said bearing member.

6. A light amount adjusting device, comprising:

a driving device;

a base plate formed with an opening; and

a light amount control member,

wherein said driving device comprises;

a magnet formed into a hollow circular disk shape, at least one disk surface of said magnet being magnetized to have alternately different poles in a circumferential direction thereof;

a rotor yoke disposed for rotation relative to said magnet, said rotor yoke having magnetic pole parts thereof extending radially of said magnet and facing the magnetized disk surface of said magnet;

a stator yoke disposed on a side remote from said rotor yoke with respect to said magnet, with said magnet interposed between said stator yoke and said rotor yoke, said stator yoke being fixed with said magnet; and

a coil, fixed to said stator yoke, for magnetizing the magnetic pole parts of said rotor yoke, and

wherein said light amount control member is operable with rotation of said rotor yoke of said driving device to adjust an open area amount of said opening of said base plate.

7. A light amount adjusting device according to claim 6, wherein said light amount control member is disposed radially inside said magnet of said driving device.

8. A light amount adjusting device according to claim 6, wherein said light amount control member is fixed integrally with said rotor yoke and is rotatable coaxially with said rotor yoke.

9. A light amount adjusting device according to claim 6, wherein said stator yoke also serves as said base plate.