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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2023
Nidec Precision Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuusuke Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
NIDEC PRECISION CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device includes an imaging element that receives subject light, a lens that guides the subject light traveling through a first opening in a housing to the imaging element, a blade between the first opening and the lens to restrict the subject light from entering the imaging element, and an actuator that moves the blade in a first direction intersecting with an optical axis of the lens to position the blade at one of a first position at which the subject light is restricted from entering the image element or a second position at which the subject light is allowed to enter the imaging element. The blade is curved along a curved profile of the lens in a second direction intersecting with the optical axis and with the first direction.