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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2016
Mitsuba Corporation, Gunma, JP;
Mayu Kobayashi, Nagano, JP;
Tsuyoshi Kondo, Nagano, JP;
Hideaki Kashiwagi, Nagano, JP;
Masakane Yoshizawa, Nagano, JP;
Sadaji Umehara, Nagano, JP;
Yasuhiro Saito, Nagano, JP;
Hideaki Takehara, Nagano, JP;
Hiroyuki Ikeda, Nagano, JP;
MITSUBA CORPORATION, Gunma, JP;
Abstract
An opening/closing body drive device includes a drive mechanism that moves an opening/closing body between an opening position and a closing position relative to a frame portion having an opening, a control unit for controlling the drive mechanism, a light source unit including a light emitting element emitting a non-visible light and radiating the non-visible light to a detection line formed of a retroreflective material along at least a part of the frame portion, and a camera including an incident lens into which the non-visible light radiated from the light source unit and reflected by the detection line enters. The incident lens is formed non-circular by cutting off an end of the incident lens when viewed in an optical axis direction thereof, and at least a part of the light source unit is arranged in a region where the end is cut off.