Abstract: In an optical unit with a shake correction function, a first circuit board, which is pulled out from a camera module, and a second circuit board, on which a first drive coil and a second drive coil are mounted, are electrically connected by a first connection portion and a second connection portion, which are electrically connected while overlapping each other. Moreover, in the optical unit with a shake correction function, a drawer portion of the first circuit board is pulled out toward an outer peripheral side of the optical unit with a shake correction function.

Abstract: In an optical unit with a shake correction function, a first inner-side wall surface disposed on an inner side of a first band-shaped portion of a circuit board in a Y-direction and a second inner-side wall surface disposed on an inner side of a second band-shaped portion of the circuit board in an X-direction are defined in an intermediate-member holder, and a first outer-side wall surface disposed on an outer side of the first band-shaped portion in the Y-direction and a second outer-side wall surface disposed on an outer side of the second band-shaped portion in the X-direction are defined on an outer-peripheral side covering portion. An interval between the first inner-side wall surface and the first outer-side wall surface is smaller than an interval between the second inner-side wall surface and the second outer-side wall surface.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a support body of an actuator is provided with a first holder member and a second holder member that are made of resin, a coil, and a first plate and a second plate that are made of metal. The first plate is assembled to a first coil holding portion of the first holder member and a second coil holding portion of the second holder member from the Z1 side, and then the coil is arranged between the first coil holding portion and the second coil holding portion. After that, an adhesive is filled into a central hole of the coil, and the second plate is assembled from the Z2 side. A case abuts against a first side plate portion of the first holder member, and a second side plate portion of the second holder member in Z direction, and the case is thus positioned.

Abstract: A card insertion unit is provided, which prevents the mixture of lights in different colors even with light sources to emit lights in different colors at the periphery of a card insertion slot. A card insertion unit, having a card insertion slot through which a card is inserted, includes: a plurality of light sources provided to surround the card insertion slot, when viewed in an insertion direction of the card, with a light emitting unit facing in a direction opposite to the insertion direction so as to each emit lights in multiple colors; a translucent cover member that is provided with the card insertion slot and is overlapped with the light sources in the direction opposite to the insertion direction; and a reflective member provided between the light sources and the card insertion slot to reflect light that is to travel from the light sources toward the card insertion slot.

Abstract: In an optical unit with a shake correction function, a first flexible printed board and a second flexible printed board may extend in a +X direction perpendicular to an optical axis from a chassis surrounding the outer circumference side of a movable body and a gimbal structure. A cover may house the chassis and bend portions of the first flexible printed board and the second flexible printed board. The cover may include an image-side cover and an object-side cover, and the first flexible printed board and the second flexible printed board may include securing portions that are secured to the image-side cover. The object-side cover may include a first cover covering the chassis and a second cover covering the first flexible printed board and the second flexible printed board. The first cover may include a cover portion covering the coupling position of the chassis and the second cover.

Abstract: An optical unit is provided which enables performing shake correction of a moving element in the optical axis direction and the direction around the optical axis with a simple configuration and which takes into account ease of assembly. Specifically, this optical unit is provided with: a moving element (14) which is provided with an optical module; a static element (16); a rolling support mechanism (20) which supports the moving element with respect to the static element rotatably about the optical axis of the optical module; and a rolling drive mechanism (18) which rotates the moving element about the optical axis.

Abstract: An industrial robot continuously and automatically executes a teaching step of learning a hand position that is the position of a hand when mounting a transported object to be placed in a predetermined position on a placing section, and a calibration step of correcting the hand position learned in the teaching step. In the calibration step, the hand is moved to the hand position identified in the teaching step, and a transported object for teaching placed in the predetermined position is mounted and taken out onto the hand. Thereafter, the hand is moved again to the hand position identified in the teaching step and the transported object for teaching is placed on the placing section. Afterward, the position of the transported object for teaching is detected by second sensors attached to the hand and the hand position is corrected based on the detection result by the second sensors.

Abstract: Provided are a disturbing magnetic field generator and a card reader capable of suppressing the generation of noise caused by vibration of a core. A disturbing magnetic field generator that generates a disturbing magnetic field for disturbing unauthorized reading of magnetic data recorded on a card includes a coil to generate the disturbing magnetic field, a bobbin including a tubular body part in which the coil is wound on an outer peripheral side, and a core disposed inside the tubular body part. A first gap is provided between the tubular body part and the core.

Abstract: An actuator includes a connection body connected with a support body and a movable body and having at least one of elasticity and viscoelasticity, and a magnetic drive mechanism structured to relatively move the movable body with respect to the support body. The connection body formed in a tube shape is disposed on both end sides in the vibration direction of the movable body. In a state that the movable body is located at a home position, the inner peripheral part connected with one of the movable body and the support body of each of the connection bodies is pulled to a center side in the vibration direction of the movable body with respect to its outer peripheral part connected with the other of the movable body and the support body and is shear-deformed.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a movable body having an optical element, a swing support mechanism swingably supporting the movable body, a fixed body supporting the movable body through the swing support mechanism, and a magnetic drive mechanism structured to swing the movable body. The magnetic drive mechanism includes a coil fixed to one of the movable body and the fixed body, and a magnet fixed to the other of the movable body and the fixed body. The swing support mechanism includes a first plate spring connecting an end part of the movable body on one side in an optical axis direction with the fixed body, and a second plate spring connecting the other end part of the movable body in the optical axis direction with the fixed body. The magnet and the coil are disposed between the first plate spring and the second plate spring.

Abstract: A movable body of an actuator includes a first yoke to which a first magnet facing a coil from a Z1 direction is fixed, and a second yoke to which a second magnet facing the coil from a Z2 direction is fixed. The portion of the first yoke to which the first magnet is fixed consists of two members: a first inner member and a first outer member. The portion of the second yoke to which the second magnet is fixed consists of two members: a second inner member and a second outer member. The portions surrounding both sides of the coil in the X direction bond first connecting plate portions of the first outer member and second connecting plate portions of the second outer member.

Abstract: An optical unit with shake-correction function is provided and includes: a movable body, a rotational support structure, a gimbal mechanism, and a fixed body. The rotational support structure, which rotatably supports the movable body including a camera module around an optical axis, is rotatably supported by the gimbal mechanism around a first axis and a second axis. The rotational support structure includes a first annular groove provided on the movable body, a plate roller including a second annular groove facing the first annular groove in the direction of Z axis, and multiple spherical objects inserted into the first annular groove and the second annular groove. The gimbal mechanism rotatably supports the plate roller around a first axis. The movable body includes a first-side stopper part facing one of plate roller extension portions with a gap from one side in the circumferential direction around the Z axis.

Abstract: An optical unit includes: a reflection portion that reflects an incident light flux incident from outside on a reflection surface in a reflection direction from an incident direction toward an imaging element; a movable body having the reflection portion and a holder supporting the reflection portion; a fixed body; a rotation support mechanism that causes the movable body to rotate with respect to the fixed body with an axial direction as a rotation axis; and a drive mechanism having a magnet and a coil and causing the movable body to rotate with respect to the fixed body. The magnet is provided at a position not contacting the reflection portion in the holder and on a back side of the reflection surface, and has a parallel surface parallel to the reflection surface. The coil is provided at a position opposing the magnet in the fixed body.

Abstract: An actuator includes a connection body which is connected with a support body and a movable body and is provided with elasticity and/or viscoelasticity, and a magnetic drive mechanism structured to move the movable body with respect to the support body. The movable body may include a support shaft, a tube-shaped part surrounding a magnet, a first inner frame part on one side of the tube-shaped part, and a second inner frame part on the other side of the tube-shaped part. The support body may include a first outer frame part, a second outer frame part, and a case surrounding the first and the second outer frame parts and the tube-shaped part. The connection body includes first and second connection bodies between the first and second inner frame parts and the first and second outer frame parts, and a third connection body between the tube-shaped part and the case.

Abstract: A cemented lens may include a first lens and a second lens connected via an adhesive layer. The first lens may include a convex surface facing toward the second lens, and a first flange surrounding an outer circumference of the convex surface. The second lens may include a concave surface connected to the convex surface, and a second flange surrounding an outer circumference of the concave surface. One of the first and second flange may include a projection protruding toward an other of the first and second flange. The other of the first and second flange may include an opposed portion opposed to a side surface of the projection Ga is a distance between the convex surface and the concave surface, and Gb is a distance between the side surface and the opposed portion, and the following expression: Gb<Ga may be satisfied.

Abstract: In this optical unit, a spring portion connecting a movable body to a holding body includes a first plate spring formed in a plate shape and elastically deformable in a rotation direction of the movable body relative to the holding body, and second plate springs formed in a plate shape and elastically deformable in an optical axis direction. The first plate spring and the second plate springs are separately formed. The first plate spring and the second plate spring that are separately formed are fixed to each other, and the first plate spring and the second plate spring that are separately formed are fixed to each other.

Abstract: A card reader includes a card lock mechanism for preventing pulling-out of a card from an insertion port when the card is jammed in a conveyance passage. The card lock mechanism includes a motor, a lock member driven by the motor to be moved between a contact position and a retreated position, a knob mechanically connected with the motor, and a detection mechanism for detecting the lock member located at the retreated position. The card reader includes a control part which is configured so that, after the motor is driven to move the lock member to the contact position, when the detection mechanism detects that the lock member has moved to the retreated position, the control part executes a tactile stimulation sequence in which the motor is driven to apply movement to the knob so that attention of an operator operating the knob is called in a tactile manner.

Abstract: An optical unit having a shake correction function, includes a movable body including an optical module, a fixed body supporting the movable body in a swingable manner, a swing drive mechanism swinging the movable body relative to the fixed body and including a magnet and a coil, one of the magnet and the coil being fixed to the movable body, the other one of the magnet and the coil being fixed to the fixed body, a magnetic member returning the movable body to an original position, a magnetic detection sensor detecting a magnetic field of the magnet, and a wiring member being connected with the coil. The wiring member includes a mounting face on which the magnetic detection sensor, the magnetic member, and the coil are fixed. The centers of the magnetic detection sensor, the magnetic member, and the coil are coaxially fixed to the mounting face.

Abstract: A wide-angle lens includes a front group, an aperture, a rear group, and an infrared cut filter. The front group includes a first lens and a second lens arranged in order from a side closest to an object to an image side. In the wide-angle lens, an anti-reflection layer having a reflectance of 1.5% or less in a wavelength range from nm to 850 nm is provided on a lens surface of the first lens on the image side to suppress an occurrence of a ghost caused by light passing through a peripheral portion of the lens surface. Therefore, even if a film forming the anti-reflection layer is thinner than an appropriate value at the peripheral portion of the lens surface, the anti-reflection layer appropriately prevents reflection of light in a long wavelength range.

Abstract: A servo control device to execute an operation in a discrete time system may include a velocity feedback path having a difference means calculating a pseudo-velocity from a detected position and a lowpass filter, and a PI control means executing a proportional integration control operation on a deviation between the pseudo-velocity and the position deviation to create a drive command for the driver. The velocity feedback path includes a first gain means applying a first gain to the pseudo-velocity, a delay means delaying the pseudo-velocity, and a second gain means applying a second gain to the delayed pseudo-velocity. A sum of an output of the first gain means and the second gain means is inputted to the lowpass filter, and “Fa(z)=1/(1?z?1Fb(z))” is satisfied where a transfer function of the PI control means is Fa(z), and a transfer function of the lowpass filter is Fb(z).