JP2005071426A - Photographing device using disk-shaped record medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate a trouble that a disk opening and closing lid cannot be opened completely by a hand strap provided on an outer package case at the time of attaching and detaching a disk-shaped recording medium in a photographing device using a disk-shaped recording medium such as a disk type photographing device. <P>SOLUTION: A disk opening and closing lid 9 is made rotatable around one pivotal point with respect to a disk housing chamber 8 with respect to the outer package case 7 of the disk type photographing device, or made slidable with respect to the outer package case 7. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a photographing apparatus using a disc-shaped recording medium capable of recording and / or reproducing information signals with respect to the disc-shaped recording medium, and more particularly to a disc-shaped recording medium using the disc-shaped recording medium as a video information storage medium. The present invention relates to a photographing apparatus using a recording medium.

  As a conventional imaging device using a disk-shaped recording medium that can be recorded and / or played back using a disk-shaped recording medium as a storage medium, there is a device described in Patent Document 1, for example. This Patent Document 1 discloses a video camera with an optical disk configured such that an optical disk such as a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is inserted into a disk storage portion while being stored in a cartridge.

  5 (a) to 5 (e) show the configuration disclosed in Patent Document 1, and FIGS. 5 (a) to 5 (e) are specific examples of the means for inserting / ejecting the disk cartridge 53 in the disk deck 51. FIG. 5A to 5E, 51 is a disk deck section, 52 is a viewfinder, 54 is a lens section, and 55 is a liquid crystal monitor. FIG. 5A is a disk deck section. The disc cover 51c of 51 can be opened and closed, and a cartridge storage portion having a cartridge insertion port 51b is provided inside the disc cover 51. In this case, by operating an eject button (not shown), the disc cover 51c is opened as shown. After the disc cartridge 53 is inserted from the cartridge insertion slot 51b, the disc cover 51c is closed and the DVD is mounted on the disc deck portion 51 by pushing with a finger.

  FIG. 5B shows the cartridge insertion port 51b provided on the end surface on the back side of the disc deck 51. FIG. 5C shows the cartridge insertion port 51b provided on the end surface on the front side of the disc deck unit 51. 5 (d) shows the cartridge insertion port 51b provided on the upper surface of the disk deck portion 1, and FIG. 5 (e) shows the cartridge insertion port 51b provided on the bottom surface of the disk deck portion 51. The disc is inserted into the disc deck 51 by manually pushing the disc cartridge 53 from the cartridge insertion slot 51b. By operating an eject button (not shown), the disc cartridge 53 to which the DVD has been attached is inserted into the cartridge. It is ejected from the insertion port 51b.

  In the case of the video camera having the above-described configuration, the DVD is housed in a cartridge and loaded into the video camera. However, the optical disk such as a DVD is mounted on the video camera or the like while being bare. In the mounting method, the recording surface of the optical disk is soiled, which is particularly problematic in a video recorder or the like in which recording / reproduction is performed with a DVD or a blue laser with a high recording density.

  The present applicant has filed a patent application for a photographing apparatus using a disk-shaped recording medium that allows an optical disk such as a DVD to be mounted on the photographing apparatus main body while being bare. The configuration of the photographing apparatus using such a recording disk-shaped recording medium will be described with reference to FIG.

  An imaging apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 4 shows an example of an imaging apparatus using a disk-shaped recording medium. A DVD is used as a specific example of a disk-shaped recording medium that is an information storage medium, and an optical image is displayed. Is converted into an electrical signal by a CCD (solid-state imaging device), recorded on a DVD, and displayed on a display device such as a liquid crystal monitor (hereinafter referred to as a “disc type imaging device”).

  As shown in FIG. 4, the disc type photographing device 1 includes a disc drive device 3 for recording and writing (reading) and reproducing (reading) information signals by rotating a DVD 2 that is detachably mounted, and the disc drive. A control circuit for controlling the drive of the apparatus 3 takes in an image of a subject provided in the exterior case 7 as light and guides it to the CCD, an exterior case 7 in which the disk drive apparatus 3 and the like are housed, A disk opening / closing lid 9 is rotatably attached to the outer case 7 and can cover the disk storage portion 8 so as to be opened and closed.

  The outer case 7 is disposed in front of and behind the disk side panel 12 and the rear side substrate side panel 13 combined with the disk drive device 3 or the like sandwiched from both sides, and the lens device 6 in the optical axis direction. The front panel 14 and the rear panel 15 combined with each other constitute a hollow, substantially rectangular parallelepiped casing. The lens device 6 is fixed to the upper part of the outer case 7, and the objective lens passes through the upper part of the front panel 14 forward and is exposed to the front surface. In the exterior case 7, a CCD is disposed behind the lens device 6, and a viewfinder 17 is disposed behind the CCD.

  The viewfinder 17 is exposed at the upper part of the outer case 7 and is configured to be able to turn the rear part up and down with the front side as the turning center. As a result, the viewfinder 17 can be adjusted to an arbitrary angle within a predetermined angle range from a horizontal state parallel to the optical axis of the lens device 6 to an upward state in which the rear portion is lifted upward. Furthermore, an accessory shoe 18 to which a video light, an external microphone, and the like are detachably attached is attached to the front side of the viewfinder 17 on the top of the exterior case 7. A stereo microphone 20 is incorporated below the lens device 6 on the front panel 14.

  A battery housing portion in which a power battery is detachably mounted is provided at a substantially central portion of the rear panel 15 of the outer case 7. The battery housing portion is opened on the upper surface and the rear surface of the outer case 7, and the power battery can be inserted and removed from the rear obliquely upward. Further, the rear panel 15 is provided with two mounting brackets 25 for hanging straps. Of the two mounting brackets 25, one mounting bracket 25 is disposed at the upper portion on the right side, and the other mounting bracket 25 is disposed at the lower portion on the left side (see FIG. 3).

  A display device 27 is attached to the substrate side panel 13 on the rear surface side of the outer case 7 so that the posture can be changed. The display device 27 (see FIG. 3) includes a flat liquid crystal monitor, a panel case in which the liquid crystal monitor is accommodated, and a panel support mechanism that supports the panel case with respect to the exterior case 7 so that the posture can be changed. Has been.

  The disk side panel 12 of the outer case 7 is provided with a disk storage chamber 8 having an opening for exposing a part of the disk drive device 3. A turntable of the disk drive device 3 is disposed at a substantially central portion of the disk storage chamber 8, and the disk drive device 3 is supported by an outer case 7. The disk storage chamber 8 is covered with a disk opening / closing lid 9 so as to be opened and closed.

  The disc opening / closing lid 9 has a shape commensurate with the shape of the disc storage chamber 8, and includes a flat portion covering the flat side of the disc storage chamber 8 and a side cut of the disc storage chamber 8 continuously to a part of the flat portion. It has the side part 9b which covers a notch part. Further, a pair of bearing portions 9c, 9c are provided on both sides of the lower end of the disk opening / closing lid 9, and a support shaft 38 is rotatably inserted into these bearing portions 9c, 9c. Both ends of the support shaft 38 protrude outward from the respective bearing portions 9 c, and the protruding ends are fixed to the disk side panel 12. As a result, the disk opening / closing lid 9 is rotatably supported by the disk side panel 12 via the support shaft 38.

  A torsion spring 39 is mounted on the support shaft 38, and a spring piece at one end of the torsion spring 39 is locked to the disk opening / closing lid 9, and a spring piece at the other end is locked to the disk side panel 12. . As a result, the disk opening / closing lid 9 is always urged in the direction to open the disk storage chamber by the spring force of the torsion spring 39. Further, a link mechanism 40 that limits the opening amount of the disk opening / closing lid 9 is spanned between the disk opening / closing lid 9 and the disk side panel 12. The link mechanism 40 includes a lid side link 41 rotatably supported by the disk opening / closing lid 9 and a panel side link 42 rotatably supported by the disk side panel 12. The parts are connected to each other so as to be rotatable.

  The disc opening / closing lid 9 is configured to be lockable in a state in which the disc storage chamber 8 is closed by a lid locking device 44 disposed at a portion farthest from the support shaft 38. The lid locking device 44 includes a slide member 45 slidably attached to the disk side panel 12. The lid locking device 44 is provided with a lock claw, while the slide member 45 is provided with a claw stopper that can be engaged with the lock claw. The claw stopper of the slide member 45 is arranged on the movement trajectory of the lock claw by the spring force of the spring member.

  Thus, by pressing the disk opening / closing lid 9 against the disk side panel 12 side, the lock claw engaged with the claw stopper moves the slide member against the spring force of the spring member. As a result, the claw stopper gets over the lock claw, and the claw stopper and the lock claw are engaged with each other. As a result, the disk storage chamber 8 is closed by the disk opening / closing lid 9, and the disk opening / closing lid 9 is locked to the disk side panel 12. This unlocking can be performed by sliding the slide member 45 in the unlocking direction against the spring force of the spring member.

  A hand strap 46 is attached to the disk side panel 12 so as to surround the disk opening / closing lid 9. The hand strap 46 supports the back portion of the user's hand that holds the disc opening / closing lid 9 portion, which is the holding portion of the outer case 7, and prevents the disc-type photographing apparatus 1 from being removed.

The hand strap 46 includes a support belt 46a whose both ends are fixed to the disk side panel 12, and a protective pad 46b that is attached to the support belt 46a and abuts against the back of the user's hand. One end of the support belt 46 is fixed to a mounting bracket 47 fixed to the front lower portion of the disk side panel 12, and the other end is inserted inward from a through hole provided in the rear middle part of the disk side panel 12. It is being fixed to the mounting bracket provided in.
JP 2003-111877 A

  According to the above-described disc type photographing apparatus 1 of FIG. 4 proposed by the present applicant, the disc opening / closing lid 9 is centered on the support shaft 38 pivotally attached to the bearing portions 9c and 9c in a normal use state. 3 can be turned to the open state by rotating from the closed state shown in FIG. 3 in the direction indicated by the arrow A in the direction opposite to the paper surface.

  However, the outer surface of the disc opening / closing lid 9 comes into contact with the protective pad 46b of the hand strap 46 used when the disc opening / closing lid 9 clips the disc type photographing apparatus 1 at the time of photographing, and is approximately 45 ° from the opening surface of the disc storage chamber 8. Only open to the extent. For this reason, it is difficult to attach or detach the bare DVD 2 to or from the turntable of the disk drive device 3, and attach the DVD 2 to the turntable with the hand strap 46 removed from the mounting bracket 47. There was annoyance that had to be withdrawn.

  The present invention has been made to eliminate the above problems, and the problem to be solved by the present invention is that the DVD 2 can be easily stored in the disk storage chamber 8 even if the protective strap 46b of the hand strap 46 is provided. An object of the present invention is to obtain a disc type photographing apparatus which can be attached to and detached from a turntable constituting the apparatus 3.

  The first aspect of the present invention is such that a disc-shaped recording medium is detachably mounted in a disc storage chamber without being obstructed by a hand strap provided in an imaging apparatus using the disc-recording disc-shaped recording medium.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a photographing apparatus using a disk recording disk-shaped recording medium having an openable / closable lid provided on a disk side panel having a hand strap of an outer case body for detachably mounting the disk-shaped recording medium. The open / close lid is configured to be slidable with respect to the opening portion of the outer case in which the disc-shaped recording medium is mounted. The photographing apparatus using the recording disc-shaped recording medium is thus provided.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a photographing apparatus using a recording disk-shaped recording medium having an openable / closable lid provided on a disk-side panel surface having a hand strap of an outer case main body for detachably mounting the disk-shaped recording medium. Taking an image using a recording disk-shaped recording medium, wherein the opening / closing lid is configured to be rotatable about one point as a pivot with respect to an opening of the outer case body in which the disk-shaped recording medium is mounted. It is a device.

  The fourth aspect of the present invention is a photographing apparatus using a disk-shaped recording medium, which has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, has a photographing lens on the front surface, a viewfinder on the rear surface opposite to the front surface, and connects the front surface and the rear surface. A disk-shaped recording medium device having a support belt on the side of the disk and a disk-shaped recording medium device inside, and holding one side by hand with the support belt and visually confirming an image taken by the photographing lens with a viewfinder In a photographing apparatus using a disk-shaped recording medium configured to record on, the support belt is attached to the lower part of one side so as to connect the front part and the rear part of the photographing apparatus, and the disk-shaped recording medium apparatus is bare. The disc-shaped recording medium can be mounted in a state substantially parallel to one side, and an opening / closing lid is provided on one side, and the disc-shaped recording is performed with the opening / closing lid opened. A disc-shaped recording medium characterized in that the body is configured to be detachable from the disc-shaped recording medium device, and the open / close lid is configured to open and close by moving relatively in parallel with respect to one side surface. This is a photographing apparatus used.

  According to the disc type photographing apparatus of the present invention, a disc-type recording medium such as a DVD can be exchanged by opening and closing the disc opening / closing lid without being obstructed by the hand strap provided on the disc opening / closing lid side.

  Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state in which a disk opening / closing lid of an image-taking apparatus showing an embodiment of an image-taking apparatus using the disk-recording disk-like recording medium of the present invention is opened, and FIG. 2 is a disk recording disk-like recording medium of the present invention. It is a perspective view which shows the state which slid the opening-and-closing lid | cover which shows the other example of an imaging device using A.

  In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the same reference numerals are given to portions corresponding to FIG. 3 and FIG. 1 and 2 show a state in which the side of the exterior case 7 on which the liquid crystal panel 27 is disposed is on the bottom and the disk side panel 12 is on the top. As a carrier usable as a disk-shaped recording medium, an optical disk is used. Discs capable of recording audio and video information signals, such as magneto-optical discs, hard discs (HD) for HDDs (hard disc drives), CDs, CD-ROMs, MDs (mini discs), high density DVDs for DVDs and blue lasers A bare disk that can be photographed using a state recording medium can be mounted on the disk drive device 3, and pickup means corresponding to each disk is also mounted.

  1 and 2, as shown in FIG. 3, a battery housing portion 22 to which the power battery 21 is detachably attached is provided at a substantially central portion of the rear panel 15 of the outer case 7. The battery housing part 22 is opened on the upper surface and the rear surface of the outer case 7, and the power battery 21 can be inserted and removed from the rear obliquely upward. Further, the rear panel 15 is provided with two mounting brackets 25 for hanging straps. Of the two mounting brackets 25, one mounting bracket 25 is arranged on the upper part on the right side (upper surface side in FIGS. 1 and 2) in FIG. 3, and the other mounting bracket 25 is on the lower part on the left side (FIG. 1, FIG. 2 on the bottom side).

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a power switch 64, a recording button 65, and a mode switching dial 66 are arranged in the middle of the rear side of the disk side panel 12. A shutter button 67 and a zoom lever 68 are arranged on the upper rear side of the disk side panel 12.

  As a material of the outer case 7 having such a configuration, for example, ABS (acrylonitrile, butadiene, styrene resin) is preferable, but other engineering plastics can be applied, as well as aluminum alloys other than synthetic resins, etc. These metals can also be used.

  In the disc type photographing apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 1, the disc opening / closing lid 9 integrated with the notch 12a forming the side surface of the disc storage chamber 8 formed integrally with the disc side panel 12 of the outer case 7 is integrated. The side cut-out portion 9b and a flat portion 9a that covers the disc storage chamber 8 and has a shape corresponding to the shape of the disc storage chamber 8 are arranged on the lower portion of the disc-side panel 12 of the outer case 7 on the front panel 14 side. 70 is erected and pivotally attached to a bearing 71 formed integrally with the inner surface of the disk opening / closing lid 9 when the disk opening / closing lid 9 is formed. Here, a screw-shaped spiral guide is provided between the pivot 70 and the bearing portion 71, or the pivot is slightly inclined so that the disk opening / closing lid 9 is moved in the lateral direction when the lid 9 is rotated and opened. You may comprise. With this configuration, when the lid is closed, the disc opening / closing lid 9 and the disc-side panel 12 are brought into close contact with each other, so that dust or the like can hardly enter.

  According to the disk opening / closing lid 9 having the above-described configuration, the flat portion 9a of the disk opening / closing lid 9 is placed on the turntable of the disk drive device 3 by rotating clockwise about the pivot 70 (direction c). The disc opening / closing lid 9 can be opened substantially parallel to the main surface of the DVD 2 that has been made. Further, when the disc opening / closing lid 9 is rotated counterclockwise (c ′ direction) about the pivot 70, the disc opening / closing lid 9 is opened by contacting the protective pad 46 b of the hand strap 46 in this opened state. It will never be done. A closed state can be achieved when the side surface notch portion 9 b of the disk opening / closing lid 9 is fitted to the notch portion 12 a provided in the side wall portion of the disk storage chamber 8. Of course, the locking mechanism of the disc lid 9 in this case is configured so that the claw stopper provided on the slide member 45 is locked by the lid locking device 44 in the same manner as described in FIG. 4 so that the disc opening / closing lid 9 is not easily opened. Has been.

  Next, referring to FIG. 2, a disk type photographing apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention will be described. Note that portions corresponding to those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

  In the case of FIG. 2, the disc opening / closing lid 9 is slid toward the front panel 14 so that the disc storage chamber 8 can be completely opened.

  In FIG. 2, guide portions 73 having a convex section are formed on the bottom panel 77 side and the top panel 72 side that form the front and rear walls of the disk side panel 12 of the outer case 7, and the front and rear side walls 9 d and 9 e of the disk opening / closing lid 9 are formed. A synthetic resin similar to the outer case 7 is formed by forming a slide-shaped disc lid 9 formed of a flat portion 9a formed in a predetermined shape so as to cover the disc storage chamber 8 by forming a guide groove 75 having a concave cross section that fits into the guide portion 73. Mold with material.

  The guide groove 75 of the disk opening / closing lid 9 described above is fitted into the guide portion 73 formed in the outer case 7 and is slid in the direction of the arrow DD ′ in FIG. The DVD 2 can be taken out and loaded smoothly without contacting the pad 46b.

  In the above-described configuration, the case where the disc guide lid 9 is manually slid has been described. However, the disc opening / closing lid 9 is brought into the ejected state (the state shown in FIG. 2) or the closed lid state by operating the eject button using a plunger or the like. It can be done easily.

  Furthermore, although the case where the disk drive device 3 is provided on the exterior case 7 side has been described in the above-described configuration, it may be mounted on the disk opening / closing lid 9 side and the DVD 2 may be detached from the substrate side panel 13 side.

  The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above and shown in the drawings, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. For example, in the embodiment, an example in which the present invention is applied to a disk type photographing apparatus using a DVD as a recording medium has been described. However, a disk-shaped recording medium of another recording method such as a magneto-optical disk or a magnetic disk can be used. Furthermore, the present invention is applicable to electronic devices other than the disk type photographing device, for example, an electronic still camera, a personal computer with a camera function, and other portable electronic devices having various hand straps.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, an example in which the present invention is applied to an apparatus capable of recording as well as reproducing as a photographing apparatus using a disk recording disk-shaped recording medium has been described. Of course, the present invention can be applied to a recording apparatus.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a disc type photographing apparatus according to an embodiment of an photographing apparatus using a disc-shaped recording medium of the present invention, with a disc lid being opened. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a disc type photographing apparatus according to another embodiment of the photographing apparatus using the disc-shaped recording medium of the present invention, with a disc lid being opened. It is a perspective view which shows the state which closed the disk opening-and-closing lid | cover of the disc type imaging device concerning a prior application. It is a perspective view which shows the state which opened the disk opening-and-closing lid | cover of the disk type imaging device concerning a prior application. It is a perspective view for demonstrating the conventional disc insertion method.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Disc imaging device (imaging device using a disc-shaped recording medium) 2 ... DVD (disc-shaped recording medium), 3 ... Disc drive device, 6 ... Lens device, 7 ... Exterior case, 8 ... Disc storage chamber, 9 Disc open / close lid, 12 Disc side panel, 13 Substrate side panel, 27 Liquid crystal panel

Claims (5)

In an imaging apparatus using a disc-shaped recording medium having an openable / closable lid provided on a disc-side panel surface on the side having a hand strap of an exterior case body on which a disc-shaped recording medium is detachably mounted.
An imaging apparatus using a disk-shaped recording medium, wherein the opening / closing lid is configured to be slidable with respect to an opening portion of the outer case body in which the disk-shaped recording medium is mounted.   The disk-shaped recording medium is mounted in parallel to the disk-side panel surface of the outer case body, and the opening / closing lid is slidable in parallel to the main surface of the disk-shaped recording medium. An imaging apparatus using the disc-shaped recording medium according to 1. In an imaging apparatus using a disc-shaped recording medium having an openable / closable lid provided on a disc-side panel surface on the side having a hand strap of an exterior case body on which a disc-shaped recording medium is detachably mounted.
A disc-shaped recording medium characterized in that the opening / closing lid is configured to be pivotable about one point as a pivot with respect to the opening of the outer case body in which the disc-shaped recording medium is mounted. There was a shooting device.   The opening / closing that the disk-shaped recording medium is mounted parallel to the disk-side panel surface of the outer case body, and is pivotally pivoted to the opening so as to be parallel to the main surface of the disk-shaped recording medium 4. A photographing apparatus using a disk-shaped recording medium according to claim 3, wherein the lid is rotatable. An imaging device using a disk-shaped recording medium,
It has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, has a photographing lens on the front surface, a viewfinder on the rear surface facing the front surface, a support belt on one side connecting the front surface and the rear surface, and a disk-shaped recording medium device inside.
A disc-shaped recording medium configured to record on the disc-shaped recording medium device while holding the one side by hand with the support belt and confirming an image captured by the photographing lens with the viewfinder. In the shooting device used,
The support belt is attached to a lower portion of the one side surface so as to connect a front portion and a rear portion of the photographing apparatus,
The disc-shaped recording medium device is configured such that a bare disc-shaped recording medium can be mounted in a state substantially parallel to the one side surface,
An opening / closing lid is provided on the one side surface, and the disc-shaped recording medium is configured to be removable from the disc-shaped recording medium device with the opening / closing lid opened.
An imaging apparatus using a disc-shaped recording medium, wherein the opening / closing lid is configured to open and close by moving relatively parallel to the one side surface.

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