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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2015
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Shimizu, Fujisawa, JP;
Kenichi Takeda, Yokohama, JP;
Toshihiro Ifuku, Yokohama, JP;
Makoto Kubota, Yokohama, JP;
Jumpei Hayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Tatsuo Furuta, Machida, JP;
Kazuki Matsushima, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A dust removal apparatus includes a vibrating plate, a piezoelectric element, a power supply that applies the piezoelectric element with an alternating voltage; and a control circuit that changes a frequency of the alternating voltage, in which the piezoelectric element includes first and second electrodes and a piezoelectric material, a phase transition temperature T from a first crystal phase to a second crystal phase of the piezoelectric material is −40° C.≦T≦85° C., the change of the frequency is for repeating a frequency sweep operation from a first frequency to a second frequency, and when a frequency at which an audible vibration is generated during the sweep operation is set as fns, a frequency at which the audible vibration is ended is set as fne, and a changing time from fns to fne during the sweep operation is set as Δtn, Δtn≦10 ms is satisfied.