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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2014
Filed:
May. 11, 2009
Yasuhiro Honda, Takatsuki, JP;
Yasuhiro Honda, Takatsuki, JP;
Konica Minolta Opto, Inc., Hachioji-shi, JP;
Abstract
A position control deviceand a position control method of the present invention are a technology used in a shape memory alloy actuator for moving a movable member using a shape memory alloy member. In controlling the position of the movable member, an instruction value indicating a position of the movable member as a control target is changed to reduce the temperature of a shape memory alloy member when an amount of power supplied to the shape memory alloy member is in excess of a predetermined first threshold value. A drive device and an imaging device C of the present invention include a shape memory alloy actuator and the position control device
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