Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Yukuo Karube

Kentaro Matsumoto

Tatsuzo Ushiro

Masaharu Eguchi

Yoshihiro Shigemura

Kenichi Kotoku

Koji Suzuki

Ryoichi Ezaki

A PC card camera has a structure in which a universal joint to which a video camera is attached is mounted on a PC card body. The video camera comprises an optical lens unit and a solid-state area sensor of the photoelectric transducer type. The universal joint holds the video camera in such a manner that the angular position thereof can be adjusted freely with respect to the PC card. The PC card body is provided with a guide for guiding the card into a slot provided in a personal computer, a connector for connecting the PC card to the personal computer, and a cut-out which prevents the PC card from being inserted incorrectly. With the PC card connected to the personal computer, the angular position of the video camera can be adjusted via the universal joint.

Image sensing apparatus including a card device connectable to an information processing device

Image input unit

A brushless motor includes a rotor having a multipolar magnet with n-number of magnetic poles and a stator yoke having a plurality of field coils disposed at a position opposing the multipolar magnet. The stator yoke of the brushless motor is provided with a magnetic-resistance varying portion to improve the smoothness of rotation of the rotor.

Brushless motor

A brushless motor has a rotor composed of a permanent field magnet, an armature functioning as stator and a position detecting element for detecting the positions of magnetic poles of said permanent magnet rotor and accordingly switching the electric current to an armature coil body of said stator thereby causing rotary motion of said permanent magnet rotor. Said armature coil body contains plural coils of given number of turns in a polygonal form of which at least two sides are placed parallel to the rotary axis of motor. Said coils are mutually arranged in a partially overlapping relationship to form a cylindrical body with one of said two sides being located at the internal surface of said cylindrical body while the other side is located at the external surface thereof so as to compose a coreless cylindrical armature body.

Brushless DC motor

A low-powered stepping motor is rotated and controlled by a driving circuit generating a pulsating current has a fixed field system formed by a permanent magnet, a soft magnetic material, etc. and a rotor disposed within the fixed field system, and forming armature windings in which the windings perform stepping motion in response to a pulsating current from the driving circuit to cause stepping rotation of the rotor.

Low-powdered stepping motor

In a DC motor is provided with a revolving armature with an armature core having a plurality of salient poles and formed of soft magnetic material. Armature windings are coiled on the salient poles of the core, a commutator having a plurality of segments is electrically connected to the windings, and a centrifugal governor device is electrically connected in the current flow path to the windings. The governor switches of the governor device for controlling the speed of revolution of the revolving armature are provided between the salient poles of the armature core. A governor base for holding the governor switches has connecting terminal members for the governor switches and is disposed with respect to the armature windings on the same side that the commutator is disposed. Thereby, during assembly of the revolving armature, the procedures of connecting the governor switches to the current flow path of the windings are pronouncedly simplified as compared with the prior art motors. Moreover, during operation of the motor, the governor switches are operable to be opened and closed in a plane containing the axis of the rotary shaft of the revolving armature so that control of the speed of revolution of the armature can be effected with high accuracy irrespective of the direction of revolution. Further, in the motor of the characteristic construction as described, a printed distributing board having electrical elements connected between the commutator segments and between the governor switch contacts, together with the commutator and the governor base, can be installed in a bunch on one side of the armature's rotary shaft in the axial direction thereof, thus greatly simplifying the procedures of making connections between the electrical parts.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yukuo Karube