Camera and camera element unit

• Main Author: HIROYUKI TAKISAWA,SUMIO KAAI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.12.2006
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

The camera includes an image pick-up device which obtains an image signal corresponding to beams irradiated onto a photoelectrically converting surface thereof; a dust-proofing member with a circular or polygonal plate-shape as a whole, including a transparent portion at an area having at least a predetermined extensity in a radial direction from the center thereof, opposed to the front of the optical device at a predetermined interval; a member for vibration annularly arranged at a peripheral portion of the dust-proofing member, which applies vibrations to the dust-proofing member; a sealingstructure arranged to constitute a space portion that is substantially sealed at a portion formed by opposing the image pick-up device and the dust-proofing member by sealing the space portion at peripheral portions of the image pick-up device and the dust-proofing member; and an image signal processing circuit which converts an image signal obtained from the image pick-up device, corresponding to an image formed onto the photoelectrically converting surface of the image pick-up device, into a signal suitable to recording.