Drive apparatus, drive method, and optical device

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9869921
SERIAL NO

15152001

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Noise produced during phase-difference changes is minimized without decreasing the responsiveness of a vibration-wave motor. A lens-side MCU for a lens barrel controls a drive apparatus that applies a drive voltage to the vibration-wave motor by outputting an A-phase drive signal and a B-phase drive signal thereto. The lens-side MCU uses, for example, a drive-voltage setting unit and a duty-cycle change unit to change the drive voltage. Also, the lens-side MCU is provided with a phase-difference change unit that changes the phase difference between the A-phase drive signal and the B-phase drive signal. When driving the vibration-wave motor, the lens-side MCU changes the drive voltage to Vreg, and when the phase-difference change unit is changing the aforementioned phase difference, the drive voltage is changed to V1, V1 being greater than zero and less than Vreg.

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NIKON CORPORATION1-5-20 NISHIOI SHINAGAWA-KU TOKYO 140-8601

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ashizawa, Takatoshi Tokyo, JP 42 276
Morioke, Toshikazu Tokyo, JP 9 24
Nishihara, Shinji Tokyo, JP 55 778
Oone, Kazuyasu Tokyo, JP 12 74

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