Minolta Company, Ltd.

Minolta Camera Co., Ltd.

Masamitsu Ishiyama

Katsuhiro Nanba

Mitsutoshi Yagoto

Toshio Kitaoka

Yasuhiro Matsumoto

Makoto Izawa

Masanori Murakami

Tetsuya Kagawa

Hideyuki Kurahashi

Toshikazu Suzuki

A linear motor provided with a stator extending in a predetermined direction and a movable piece being movable along the stator, comprises:

Linear motor and image reader

A linear drive device provided with a magnetic sensor which is movable together with a movable piece for reading magnetic information of a position sensing magnetized portion on a stator, and a magnetic shield member for shielding the magnetic sensor from a magnetic flux applied by a drive magnetized portion on the stator. A linear drive device provided with a first sensor for sensing a variation in magnetic polarity of a field magnet on a stator, and a second sensor for reading information on an encoder scale, the first and second sensors being arranged at positions in a region around the stator except for a region above the upper surface of the stator.

Linear drive device

The image reading device providing a scanning unit provided with a slider pulled by a wire driven by a motor, the image reading device being provided with bilateral direct movement guides which bilaterally support the bilateral ends of the slider so as to be reciprocally movable, and a drive wire fixedly attached to the slider to pull the slider, and wherein the anchoring position of the wire on the slider is the center of gravity position of the slider or is on a straight line coincident to the moment of lateral force of a lateral friction generated between the slider and lateral movement guides during driving.

Image reading device

A linear motor including a stator having a drive field magnet extending in a uniform direction, a movable piece including an armature coil opposed to the field magnet, and a carrying member carrying a predetermined portion of the stator, wherein the stator is provided with predetermined magnetic poles for driving the movable piece only at a range in which a change in the magnetic field by the influence of the carrying member is prevented or suppressed.

Linear motor

A linear motor includes a rod-like stator having a field magnet, and a movable piece having an armature coil fitted around the field magnet and arranged inside a cylindrical movable piece yoke. The movable piece is provided at its opposite ends with bearings. The armature coil is arranged between the bearings. The cylindrical movable piece yoke is provided at ends of a lower portion in the gravity direction with projections extending in the movable piece moving direction.

Linear motor apparatus employing linear motor as drive source

The invention is directed to a linear motor and a image reading apparatus. The motor comprises a rod-like stator formed of a magnetizable rod-like member provided by magnetization with a drive field magnet and a plurality of magnet portions providing multiple kinds of position information; a movable piece being movable along said stator and having an armature coil opposed to said field magnet; and a sensor reading the position information from the plurality of magnet portions. The apparatus includes motors such as the foregoing linear motors as drive source for sliders to be driven for scanning a document image.

Linear motor and image reading apparatus

A single sided servo apparatus comprises a linear motor and a longitudinal carriage which is connected to the linear motor at one end thereof. The linear motor comprises a stator including field magnets arranged linearly and a movable piece including armature coils. The field magnets have a trapezoid-like magnetic flux distribution. An arrangement pattern of the field magnets has a relative tilted angle to an arrangement pattern of the armature coils, so that a free end of the carriage precedes the other end thereof connected to the linear motor. Then, the thrust has a small variation and generates a stable thrust of the servo apparatus.

A reader printer is disclosed which incorporates therein a scanning plane mirror for projecting an image in the form of a slit on a sensitive material. The sensitive material is shifted proportionately to the rotation of the scanning mirror so that the position at which the image is projected on the sensitive material will coincide with the scanning position of the sensitive material. As a result, the otherwise possible phenomenon of defocusing is precluded and the image is faithfully reproduced on a recording paper. The mechanism for rotating the scanning mirror and the mechanism for shifting the sensitive material are divided to allow production of a reader printer of a small size.

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Toyokawa, Japan

Masamitsu Ishiyama