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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Ayumu Kawamura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G02B 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2252 (2013.01); G02B 7/028 (2013.01); H04N 5/2253 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus that is excellent in rigidity and in heat radiation efficiency. The image pickup apparatus has a heat sink-cum-duct disposed between a pair of cover members that constitute left and right exteriors of an apparatus main unit and that are fixed to the heat sink-cum-duct. The heat sink-cum-duct has an opening formed to correspond to an air inlet port of an air cooling fan and has a plurality of fins, and sucks air through the opening from the outside. The sucked air is guided to the air inlet port of the cooling fan through a ventilation path defined by the plurality of fins.