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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuyuki Kojima, Machida, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vibration-type actuator can downsizes a pressing mechanism for bringing a vibrating body and a driven body into press contact with each other and generates required pressing force. The vibrating body has an elastic body, an electro-mechanical energy conversion element, and at least one projecting portion. The driven body has a driven base material that is brought into press contact with the vibrating body, and a permanent magnet joined to the driven base material. The driven base material and the elastic body face each other across the permanent magnet in a thickness direction of the elastic body. The permanent magnet is magnetized in the thickness direction of the elastic body. A magnetic action of the permanent magnet on the elastic body and the driven base material brings the projecting portion and the driven base material into press contact with each other in the thickness direction of the elastic body.