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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2007
Susumu Yasuda, Tokyo, JP;
Hidemasa Mizutani, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayuki Yagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Shimada, Kanagawa, JP;
Futoshi Hirose, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahisa Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Susumu Yasuda, Tokyo, JP;
Hidemasa Mizutani, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayuki Yagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Shimada, Kanagawa, JP;
Futoshi Hirose, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahisa Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The tiltable-body apparatus including a frame member, a tiltable body, and a pair of torsion springs having a twisting longitudinal axis. The torsion springs are disposed along the twisting longitudinal axis opposingly with the tiltable body being interposed, support the tiltable body flexibly and rotatably about the twisting longitudinal axis relative to the frame member, and include a plurality of planar portions, compliant directions of which intersect each other when viewed along a direction of the twisting longitudinal axis. A center of gravity of the tiltable body is positioned on the twisting longitudinal axis of the torsion springs.