Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of imaging devices, and in particular, to a motor applied to a shutter device, a shutter device, and a photographing device.
Camera shutters generally include focal plane shutters, and inter-lens shutters, and the like. A focal plane shutter is a shutter placed in front of a focal plane for imaging, which generally refers to a rolling shutter. Power released by a front curtain and a rear curtain comes from a spring and a connecting rod assembly. A geared motor winds the front curtain and the rear curtain simultaneously by means of the spring and the connecting rod assembly. The front curtain and the rear curtain each are separately controlled by an electromagnet, so that sequential actions of the front curtain and the rear curtain are implemented. The focal plane shutter is mainly applied to a single-lens reflex camera.
An inter-lens shutter is a shutter placed in a position of a diaphragm in a lens, and is also referred to as a blade shutter. A blade assembly is driven by left and right link mechanisms. The left and right link mechanisms are connected in series to a rotor of an electromagnet. The rotor has two stable positions (a permanent magnetic force provides a self-locking force). The electromagnet is configured to control the release and retraction of the rotor. A reaction spring helps the electromagnet to start and brake. The inter-lens shutter is mainly applied to a portable camera and some lenses.
However, the existing inter-lens shutter generally has disadvantages such as a complex structure, a large volume, and a heavy weight.
In addition, in recent years, the size of a camera module has been gradually reduced with development of technologies, but the size of a shutter driving device is still a major obstacle restricting the miniaturization of a camera module.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a motor, a shutter device, and a photographing device.
According to a first aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, a motor for a shutter device is provided, including: a printed circuit board assembly including at least one winding, a first side and a second side; at least one stator iron core mounted on the first side of the printed circuit board assembly, and wound by the at least one winding; and at least one rotor and at least one magnet mounted on the at least one rotor mounted on the second side of the printed circuit board assembly and spaced apart from the at least one winding.
The motor of the embodiments of the present disclosure has a flattened structure, thereby facilitating the miniaturization of the shutter device.
According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, a shutter device is provided, including a motor, including: a printed circuit board assembly including at least one winding, a first side and a second side, at least one stator iron core mounted on the first side of the printed circuit board assembly, and wound by the at least one winding, and at least one rotor and at least one magnet mounted on the at least one rotor mounted on the second side of the printed circuit board assembly and spaced apart from the at least one winding; and a shutter blade, where the shutter blade is linked to the at least one rotor of the motor and configured to switch a light source of an exposure area upon closing a shutter, the winding is energized upon operating the motor to rotate the at least one rotor, so as to implement opening and closing actions of the shutter blade.
According to yet another aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, a photographing device is provided, including a shutter device, including: a motor, including: a printed circuit board assembly including at least one winding, a first side and a second side, at least one stator iron core mounted on the first side of the printed circuit board assembly, and wound by the at least one winding, and at least one rotor and at least one magnet mounted on the at least one rotor mounted on the second side of the printed circuit board assembly and spaced apart from the at least one winding; and a shutter blade, where the shutter blade is linked to the at least one rotor of the motor and configured to switch a light source of an exposure area upon closing a shutter, the winding is energized upon operating the motor to rotate the at least one rotor, so as to implement opening and closing actions of the shutter blade.
For the shutter device and the photographing device according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, an axial flux motor including a printed circuit board assembly with a winding is used in a shutter, the structure of the axial flux motor is optimized, and the magnetic permeability is increased. The present disclosure has a compact and simple structure, and low costs.
To describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure more clearly, the following briefly describes the accompanying drawings required for describing the embodiments. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following description show merely some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, and a person of ordinary skill in the art may still derive other drawings from these accompanying drawings without creative efforts.
The following clearly describes the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. Apparently, the described embodiments are merely some but not all of the embodiments of the present disclosure. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present disclosure without creative efforts shall fall within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.
Exemplary embodiments are described in detail herein, and examples of the exemplary embodiments are presented in the accompanying drawings. When the following description relates to the accompanying drawings, unless otherwise specified, same numbers in different accompanying drawings represent same or similar elements. Implementations described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all implementations consistent with the present disclosure. On the contrary, they are only some examples of devices and methods that are described in the appended claims in detail and that are consistent with some aspects of the present disclosure.
The terms used in the present disclosure are used only to describe specific embodiments, and not intended to limit the present disclosure. The terms “a”, “said”, and “the” in singular forms used in the present disclosure and the appended claims are also intended to include plural forms, unless otherwise clearly indicated in a context. It should also be understood that the term “and/or” used in this specification indicates and includes any or all possible combinations of one or more associated listed items. Unless otherwise specified, the terms “before”, “after”, “below”, and/or “above”, and the like, are used only for ease of description, and not intended to limit a location or a spatial direction. The terms “connection” or “connected”, and the like, are not limited to a physical or mechanical connection, but may also include an electrical connection, whether direct or indirect. The term “can/be able to” in the present disclosure may mean having a capability.
The embodiments of the present disclosure are hereinafter described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Under a condition that no conflict occurs, the following embodiments and features in embodiments may be combined with each other.
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The stator iron core 13 is made of a magnetic material, which can increase magnetic permeability. When the winding 120 is not energized, attractive forces between the stator iron core 13 and the magnet 15 are balanced, the motor 10 is in a stable state, and the rotor blade 16 is in an open state, as shown in
The printed circuit board assembly 12 in this specification includes a printed circuit board and conducting wires (not shown) formed on the printed circuit board. In some exemplary embodiments, the winding 120 is integrated to the printed circuit board assembly 12 through a printed circuit board manufacturing process. For example, the winding 120 may be directly formed on the printed circuit board through screen printing on the printed circuit board. Therefore, the motor 10 can be flattened, the size and volume of the motor 10 are reduced, the structure is further simplified, and costs are reduced. In the following embodiments and drawings of the present disclosure, detailed descriptions will be provided by using an example in which the winding 120 is integrated into the printed circuit board assembly 12. However, the shutter device 1 in embodiments of the present disclosure should not be limited to the form in which the winding 120 is integrated into the printed circuit board assembly 12. In some exemplary embodiments, the winding 120 may be in a form of an integrated winding 120, and then the integrated winding 120 is fixed on the printed circuit board assembly 12 by means of welding or the like, so that a torque of the motor 10 can be effectively increased.
In some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, the motor 10 is an axial flux motor. A plurality of rotor blades 16 may be included. Correspondingly, the motor 10 also includes a plurality of rotors 14, a plurality of magnets 15, a plurality of stator iron cores 13, and a plurality of windings 120 corresponding to the quantity of the rotor blades 16. The printed circuit board assembly 12 is in an annular shape, and has an aperture 123 in a center of the printed circuit board assembly 12. The plurality of windings 120, the plurality of rotors 14 and the plurality of stator iron cores 13 are all annularly distributed along the aperture 123 of the printed circuit board assembly 12.
The motor 10 in some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure is an axial flux motor. The plurality of windings 120, the plurality of rotors 14 and the plurality of stator iron cores 13 are annularly distributed along the aperture 123 of the printed circuit board assembly 12. In addition, the windings 120 are integrated to the printed circuit board assembly 12, so that the motor 10 can be flattened, thereby facilitating miniaturization of the shutter device 1.
In some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, the axial flux motor 10 is used as power to directly drive the rotor blade 16, and a cogging torque of the magnet 15 and the stator iron core 13 is used to meet the two stable-state requirements for the opening and closing of the rotor blade 16. The structure is simple and highly reliable. In addition, power-on calibration is controlled to implement blade synchronization control.
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The rotor blade 16 is rotatably mounted on the printed circuit board assembly 12 via a rotating shaft 17, and is spaced apart from and opposite to the flat portion 131 of the stator iron core 13. In some exemplary embodiments, a positioning rod 133 is further disposed along with the iron core limb 132 on the same side of the flat portion 131 of the stator iron core 13, and a positioning hole 134 is formed in the positioning rod 133. The rotating shaft 17 penetrates the rotor 14 and a through hole 125 on the printed circuit board assembly 12, and is positioned in the positioning hole 134 of the positioning rod 133 on the flat portion 131.
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In some exemplary embodiments, the first sub-winding 1201, the second sub-winding 1202 and the third sub-winding 1203 are evenly distributed around the rotating shaft 17.
The magnet 15 includes an N-S magnet 151 and an S-N magnet 152. When the motor 10 is in the stable state, the rotor blade 16 is in the open state, that is, when the rotor 14 is in a first stable position, the N-S magnet 151 and the S-N magnet 152 respectively directly face the first sub-winding 1201 and the second sub-winding 1202. When the winding 120 is energized, a closed magnetic field is formed under a joint action with the stator iron core 13, and the closed magnetic field drives the rotor blade 16 to rotate clockwise. The N-S magnet 151 and the S-N magnet 152 rotate to positions directly facing the second sub-winding 1202 and the third sub-winding 1203 respectively. In this case, the rotor blade 16 is closed and the rotor 14 is in a second stable position. Since the winding 120 is energized by an alternating current, during continuous energization, the N-S magnet 151 and the S-N magnet 152 rotate in an opposite direction. Therefore, the N-S magnet 151 and the S-N magnet 152 return from the positions that directly face the second sub-winding 1202 and the third sub-winding 1203, to positions that directly face the first sub-winding 1201 and the second sub-winding 1202, that is, the rotor returns to the first stable position.
However, an arrangement of the first sub-winding 1201, the second sub-winding 1202 and the third sub-winding 1203 in the winding 120 of embodiments of the present disclosure should not be limited to an arrangement of equilateral triangle. In some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, with defining the position of the rotor 14 directly facing the first sub-winding 1201 and the second sub-winding 1202 as the first stable position and the position of the rotor 14 directly facing the second sub-winding 1202 and the third sub-winding 1203 as the second stable position, where the first stable position is a position of the rotor when the shutter is in the open state, and the second stable position is a position of the rotor when the shutter is in the closed state. This only needs to ensure that a distance between centers of the first sub-winding 1201 and the second sub-winding 1202 and a distance between centers of the second sub-winding 1202 and the third sub-winding 1203 are equal.
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In some exemplary embodiments, at least eight rotor blades 16 are included, so that a problem of pinwheel effect can be resolved. In the drawings of the embodiments of the present disclosure, eight rotor blades 16 are shown, and the eight rotor blades 16 cooperate to implement their opening and closing actions based on energization and de-energization of the winding 120.
In some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, the axial flux motor 10 that uses the printed circuit board assembly 12 having the winding 120 can be applied to a shutter, and the structure of the axial flux motor 10 is optimized to increase magnetic permeability. Therefore, the structure is compact and simple, and the costs are low.
The rotor 14 is sandwiched between the second printed circuit board assembly 22 having the second winding 220 and the printed circuit board assembly 12 having the winding 120. The second printed circuit board assembly 22 and the printed circuit board assembly 12 are sandwiched between the second stator iron core 23 and the stator iron core 13.
The second winding 220 may also be integrated to the second printed circuit board assembly 22 through a screen printing process, or the second winding 220 is an integrated winding and may be fixed on the second printed circuit board assembly 22 by welding or the like.
The second printed circuit board assembly 22, the second winding 220 and the second stator iron core 23 have structures similar to those of the printed circuit board assembly 12, the winding 120 and the stator iron core 13. The second printed circuit board assembly 22 is also in an annular shape, and has an aperture 223 in a center of the second printed circuit board assembly 22. A plurality of second windings 220 and a plurality of stator iron cores 23 are all annularly distributed along the aperture 223 of the second printed circuit board assembly 22. In addition, positions of the second winding 220 and the second stator iron core 23 respectively correspond to positions of the winding 120 and the stator iron core 13, and quantities of the second winding(s) 220 and the second stator iron core(s) 23 respectively correspond to quantities of the winding(s) 120 and the stator iron core(s) 13. Thus, details will not be described herein.
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A rotating shaft 17 passes through the printed circuit board assembly 12 and the second printed circuit board assembly 22, and is positioned in the flat portion 131 of the stator iron core 13 and the flat portion 231 of the second stator iron core 23, respectively. The rotor 14 is rotatably mounted on the printed circuit board assembly 12 and the second printed circuit board assembly 22 via the rotating shaft 17, and is spaced apart from and opposite to the flat portion 131 of the stator iron core 13 and the flat portion 231 of the second stator iron core 23 respectively.
Therefore, as shown in
When the winding 120 and the second winding 220 are not energized, attractive forces between the magnet 15 and the stator iron core 13 and attractive forces between the magnet 15 and the second stator iron core 23 are balanced, the motor 20 is in a stable state, and a rotor blade 16 is in an open state. When the winding 120 and the second winding 220 are respectively energized, a magnetic field is formed under a joint action of the stator iron core 13, and a magnetic field is formed under a joint action of the second stator iron core 23. The magnet 15 is deflected under an action of the magnetic field, which drives the rotor blade 16 to rotate. In this way, the rotor blade 16 is closed.
In some exemplary embodiments, the shutter device 2 may include washers 18 and 28. As shown in
In other exemplary embodiments, the shutter device 2 in the these exemplary embodiments may further include cooling fins 19 and 29. As shown in
The motor 20 of the shutter device 2 in some exemplary embodiments employs a sandwich-like “interlayered” structure in which one layer of rotors 14 is disposed between two layers of stator iron cores 13, and this can effectively resolve a problem of excessive magnetic pull forces between stators and rotors 14. However, embodiments of the present disclosure should not be limited thereto. In some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, the motor 20 may also employ a similar structure in which one layer of stator iron cores 13 is sandwiched between two layers of rotors 14, or may employ a structure in which a plurality of layers of stator iron cores 13 and a plurality of layers of rotors 14 are interleaved. All equivalent variations of similar structures shall fall within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.
Compared with the motor 10 in the previous exemplary embodiments, the motor 20 of the shutter device 2 in the these exemplary embodiments has one more printed circuit board assembly and more stator iron cores on one side, thereby reducing magnetic leakage, and improving the efficiency.
In this specification, descriptions with the terms “certain embodiments”, “an embodiment”, “another embodiment”, “some embodiments”, “other embodiments”, and the like mean that specific features, structures, materials, or conditions described with reference to the embodiment(s) are included in at least one of embodiments of the present disclosure. In this specification, exemplary descriptions of the foregoing terms may not necessarily refer to a same embodiment. In addition, the specific features, structures, materials, or conditions described above in this specification may be combined in any one or more of the embodiments in an appropriate manner.
Some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a photographing device, where the photographing device may use the shutter device 1 or 2 in any one of the foregoing embodiments.
The photographing device in some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure has a beneficial technical effect similar to that of the foregoing shutter device 1 or 2, and therefore will not be described again herein.
It should be noted that the relational terms herein such as “first” and “second” are used only to differentiate an entity or operation from another entity or operation, and do not require or imply any actual relationship or sequence between these entities or operations. The terms “comprise”, “include”, or any other variant thereof is intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, so that a process, a method, an article, or an device that includes a list of elements not only includes those elements but also includes other elements which are not expressly listed, or further includes elements inherent to such process, method, article, or device. In absence of more constraints, an element preceded by “includes a . . . ” does not preclude existence of other identical elements in the process, method, article, or device that includes the element.
The motor, shutter device, and photographing device provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail above. Specific examples are used in the specification to describe the principles and implementations of the present disclosure. The description of the foregoing embodiments is only intended to help understand the method and core idea of the present disclosure. Contents of the specification should not be understood as limitations on the present disclosure. In addition, any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, or the like may be made by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the idea of the present disclosure to the specific implementations and the application scope of the present disclosure, which shall all fall within the scope of the claims of the present disclosure.
This application is a continuation application of PCT application No. PCT/CN2019/093100, filed on Jun. 26, 2019, and the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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Parent | PCT/CN2019/093100 | Jun 2019 | US |
Child | 17120492 | US |