US 12,216,395 B2
Optical unit
Shinji Minamisawa, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION, Nagano (JP)
Appl. No. 17/298,028
Filed by NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION, Nagano (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 15, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/016101
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 28, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/110338, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-224926 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0091477 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G03B 5/06 (2021.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC G03B 5/06 (2013.01) [H05K 1/028 (2013.01); G03B 2205/0015 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical unit comprising:
a movable body comprising an optical module having an object side;
a fixed body, having an extended part extended from an inner side to an outer side along a first intersecting direction that intersects an optical axis direction;
a support mechanism which turnably supports the movable body with respect to the fixed body with one or a plurality of directions intersecting the optical axis direction as a direction of a turning axis;
a flexible circuit board whose one end is connected with a connection part provided in the movable body and which is disposed on the extended part at the inner side in the first intersecting direction intersecting the optical axis direction with respect to the movable body;
a positioning part which is disposed on the extended part at the outer side in the first intersecting direction with respect to the movable body and positions an other end of the flexible circuit board in the optical axis direction; and
a cover, which covers at least a part of the flexible circuit board,
wherein
the flexible circuit board is folded so as to be overlapped with each other when viewed in the optical axis direction;
a position in the optical axis direction of the turning axis is located within a range from the connection part to the positioning part;
the cover, which is the extended part, includes a first wall part, a second wall part and a third wall part that cover the at least a part of the flexible circuit board in three directions other than an opposite side to the object side;
the positioning part is integrally formed with the fixed body;
the fixed body is provided with the positioning part which positions the flexible circuit board in a Z-axis direction that is the optical axis direction;
the positioning part is a plate-shaped member which is attached to the first wall part so as to form a space and the other end of the flexible circuit board is positioned in the Z-axis direction by passing the other end through the space;
the first wall portion is configured to cover the connection part of flexible circuit board, the positioning part and a region between the connection part and the positioning part.