Shutter device

• US 8,717,493 B2
• Filed: 11/23/2010
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Han, Jinsuk
• Primary Examiner(s): Ye, Lin
• Assistant Examiner(s): DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D
• Application Number:
  US12/952,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20110122311A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,260 Days
• Field of Search: 348/367, 348/368, 396449-504, 352204-220
• US Class Current: 348/367
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 9/14 Two separate members moving in opposite directions
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 33/16 with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 41/0356 moving along a straight path

Abstract

A shutter device is disclosed, the device including a base formed with a lens hole through which reflective light from an object passes, a first blade and a second blade rotating about a hinge provided at the base to open or close the lens hole, and an actuator provided with a linearly-shifting slider at an area eccentrically positioned from the hinge to allow the first and second blades to be activated with rotation moment.

Claims

1. A shutter device, comprising:

a base with a lens hole;

first and second blades configured to rotate about a hinge in the base, and rotate to a closing position closing the lens hole and to an open position opening the lens hole; and

an actuator configured to include;

a magnet unit and a coil configured to generate a rotation moment for the first and second blades, and

a restoring unit configured to restore the first and second blades to the closed position when power is not supplied to the coil, wherein the actuator further comprises a slider and a yoke member, and the yoke member comprises a first lug, a second lug and a third lug, where the coil passes a discrete space between the first and second lugs, and is wound in the shape of a hollow pillar passing a discrete space between the second and third lugs, and wherein the second lug is not equidistant between the first and third lugs such that a restoring force is applied to the slider in a closing direction.

2. The shutter device of claim 1, wherein the slider comprises a boss coupled to the first and second blades at an area eccentrically positioned from the hinge, the slider being attached to the magnet unit to linearly shift along with the magnet unit and to provide the rotation moment to the first and second blades through the boss, and the yoke member of magnetic substance is arranged at a periphery of the coil.

3. The shutter device of claim 1, wherein the first to third lugs are so arranged as to allow a magnetic force acting on the first to third lugs and the magnet unit to be eccentrically effected to one side relative to a linearly shifting direction of the slide.

4. The shutter device of claim 1, wherein the actuator further comprises yoke member further comprises:

a flat type body unit, and,

an opening unit in which a part of the body unit corresponding to a gap between the first lug and the second lug is opened,

wherein the third lug is formed by bending a margin of the opening unit to face the first lug across a part of the body unit.

5. The shutter device of claim 1, wherein the actuator further comprises a slider and a yoke member, and the yoke member comprises a first lug, a second lug and a third lug, where the first and third lugs are arranged outside of the coil, while the second lug is arranged inside the coil.

6. The shutter device of claim 1, wherein the slider comprises a first bending unit and a second bending unit attached to a lateral surface of the magnet unit, where the first bending unit allows the slider to be guided in a linear shift by shifting along a guide at the base in a contacted state.