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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2016
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Iwasaki, Iruma, JP;
Takehiko Iguchi, Hino, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes: a lens frame internally holding a movable lens, and including a magnet provided on an outer circumferential surface; a holding frame; and a magnetic member, in which the magnet includes a plurality of magnet pairs provided at uniform angles in a circumferential direction of the lens frame, each of the magnet pairs including magnets that are respectively disposed on distal end side and proximal end side along the optical axis direction of the movable lens, the magnet disposed on the distal end side has a polarity opposite in the radial direction to a polarity of the magnet disposed on the proximal end side, and the magnetic member is provided to face the magnets that configure one of the plurality of magnet pairs.