Patents by Inventor Takehiko Ando

Takehiko Ando has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4922274
    Abstract: A motor-driven type exposure adjusting device, such as a diaphragm-shutter device, adapted for a lens incorporating camera, an interchangeable lens, or the like. In the adjusting device, a rotary member has an optical path hole formed in a central portion thereof and is arranged to control the opening and closing actions of a plurality of light shielding blades. A stepping motor servers as a drive source for the rotation of the roatary member and is disposed outside of the optical path hole, and an aperture position detecting means detects a boundary between a given maximum aperture position defined by the light shielding blades and a stopped-down aperture position of the optical path hole. The aperture position of the optical path hole is detected through the rotating angle position of a rotary wheel to which the rotation output of the rotor shaft of the stepping motor is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha/Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Shigeru Yoshida, Katumi Yoshida, Ryuji Suzuki, Tadashi Arai, Masachika Nishimura, Hiroaki Seino, Takehiko Ando