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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2014
Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha, Chichibu, JP;
Satoshi Kozu, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Kawakubo, Yokohama, JP;
Akira Kurosawa, Chichibu-gun, JP;
Mitsuo Shibata, Matsudo, JP;
Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha, Chichibu-shi, JP;
Abstract
The light-quantity control apparatus includes a stop blade including a stop portion and a supported portion rotatably supported with respect to a base member, a shutter blade having a shutter portion and a supported portion rotatably supported with respect to the base member, and a driving member disposed between the shutter and stop blades and rotating around the light-passing aperture to rotate the stop blade. The stop and shutter blades have tilts in their supported portions toward a same one side in the optical axis direction so that the stop and shutter portions are distant from the supported portions in the optical axis direction. The driving member has a shape concave toward the one side from its outer circumferential side portion to its inner circumferential side portion. A concave space facing the light-passing aperture is formed inside than the stop and shutter blades and the driving member.