Device for detecting the time of termination of opening operation of shutter blades of an electromagnetic programming shutter

• US 4,527,877 A
• Filed: 10/25/1982
• Issued: 07/09/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Copal Company Limited (Nidec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Copal Company Limited (Nidec Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshikawa, Yukio, Kurosu, Tomio
• Primary Examiner(s): ADAMS JR, RUSSELL E
• Application Number:
  US06/436,629
• Time in Patent Office: 988 Days
• Field of Search: 354/26, 354/28, 354/29, 354/30, 354/34, 354/36, 354/38, 354/50, 354/51, 354/60 R, 354/139, 354/147, 354/234.1
• US Class Current: 396/463
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 9/08 Shutters

Abstract

The device for detecting the time of termination of the opening operation of shutter blades of an electromagnetic programming shutter comprises an induction coil secured to either one of a member coupled with the operation of the shutter blades and a base plate, a permanent magnet secured to the other one of the member and the base plate in facing relationship to the induction coil, and a detecting circuit for detecting the vanishing of the electric current induced in the induction coil resulting from the termination of the relative movement between the induction coil and the permanent magnet at the time of termination of the opening operation of the shutter blades after the shutter blades have initiated the opening operation from the closed positions for causing the relative movement between the induction coil and the permanent magnet so as to generate the induced current in the induction coil, thereby permitting the time of termination of the opening operation of the shutter blades to be detected. Since a programming shutter may initiate the closing operation of the shutter blades even though they have not been fully opened so as to serve as a diaphragm stop in order to obtain proper exposure, the time of termination of the opening operation of the shutter blades must be exactly detected in order to accurately actuate a stroboflash device. The present invention can detect very accurately the required time for the operation of the stroboflash device in the very simple and inexpensive manner without requiring undue loss of energy.

Claims

1. Device for detecting the termination of the opening operation of shutter blades of an electromagnetic programming shutter in which at least one of the opening operation and the closing operation of said shutter blades is electromagnetically controlled, comprising:

a rotatable sector ring connected to said shutter blades,

an induction coil secured to said rotatable sector ring,

a permanent magnet secured to a base plate in facing relationship to said induction coil, and

a detecting circuit for detecting the vanishing of the electric current induced in said induction coil resulting from the termination of the relative movement between said induction coil and said permanent magnet at the time of termination of the opening operation of said shutter blades after said shutter blades have initiated the opening operation from the closed positions for causing the relative movement between said induction coil and said permanent magnet so as to generate the induced electric current in said induction coil, thereby permitting the time of termination of the opening operation of said shutter blades to be detected by said detecting circuit.

2. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein a printed circuit constituting said induction coil is secured in the periphery of said ring.

3. The device of claim 1, having a plurality of permanent magnets, said magnets being connected by arcuate cores and a number of movable coils equal to the number of magnets shiftably mounted on said cores, each of said coils being operatively connected to said ring to rotate said ring and actuate said shutters when current is supplied to each of said coils in one direction or the other.

4. The device of claim 3, further having stop means on said base plate to limit the movement of each coil correspondingly to the open and closed positions of said blades.

5. The device of claim 1, having an electromagnetically driven motor connected to said ring reciprocally rotating said ring in response to the direction of the current supplied to said motor.

6. The device of claim 1, including a pair of magnetizable yokes secured to the upper and lower surfaces of said magnet.

7. Device for detecting the time of termination of the opening operation of shutter blades of an electromagnetic programming shutter in which at least one of the opening operation and the closing operation of said shutter blades is electromagnetically controlled, comprising:

an induction coil secured to either one of a member coupled with the operation of said shutter blades and a base plate,

a permanent magnet secured to said base plate in facing relationship to said induction coil,

a pair of magnetizable yokes secured to the upper and lower surfaces of said magnet, and

a detecting circuit for detecting the vanishing of the electric current induced in said induction coil resulting from the termination of the relative movement between said induction coil and said permanent magnet at the time of termination of the opening operation of said shutter blades after said shutter blades have initiated the opening operation from the closed positions for causing the relative movement between said induction coil and said permanent magnet so as to generate the induced electric current in said induction coil, thereby permitting the time of termination of the opening operation of said shutter blades to be detected by said detecting circuit.

8. The device of claim 7, having a plurality of permanent magnets, said magnets being connected by arcuate cores and a number of movable coils equal to the number of magnets shiftably mounted on said cores, each of said coils being operatively connected to said ring to rotate said ring and actuate said shutters when current is supplied to each of said coils in one direction or the other.

9. The device of claim 8, further having stop means on said base plate to limit the movement of each coil correspondingly to the open and closed positions of said blades.

10. The device of claim 7, having an electromagnetically driven motor connected to said ring and reciprocally rotating said ring in response to the direction of the current supplied to said motor.