JP3125916U - Support plate for pan head mounting - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a support plate that allows a camera to be attached to a pan head with a simple operation.
A support plate is bonded to the bottom surface of a camera with a double-sided tape. The support plate 100 is provided with an index 6 for the position of the guide groove 13 and a guide groove 13 for guiding the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 of the camera base 22. An operator looking at the camera 20 and the support plate 100 from the + X side and above the camera 20 holds the camera 20 in his hand and straddles the guide groove 13 at the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23. When the camera 20 is further slid in the + X direction, the camera fixing screw 23 moves relatively along the guide groove 13 and is fitted into the female screw hole 21 on the camera bottom via the through hole 2. To come. That is, if this support plate is used, the operator can easily attach the camera 20 to the pan / tilt head without looking at the female screw hole 21.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a platform mounting support plate, and more particularly, to a platform mounting support plate for supporting a camera mounting operation on the platform.

As a method for mounting the camera on a tripod, the following two methods are mainly used.
(1) In the first method, after attaching the pan head to the tripod, for example, as shown in FIG. 5, the camera fixing screw 23 protruding from below the camera base 22 constituting a part of the pan head, This is a method in which the camera is directly attached to the camera platform by screwing into a female screw hole 21 provided on the bottom surface of the camera 20. In this method, the operator grips and operates the head of the camera fixing screw 23 of the camera cradle 22, that is, the knob 24, so that the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 is screwed into the screw hole 21. Must be manually aligned to the mouth.
(2) The second method is a method of attaching the camera to the pan / tilt head via an accessory shoe as a commercially available camera mounting accessory. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the accessory shoe includes a camera mounting base 25 and a mounting base receiving body 26. In this method, first, the mounting base receiving body 26 is screwed to a pan head attached to a tripod through a screw hole 28, and the camera mounting base 25 is screwed to the camera using a camera fixing screw 27. deep. Then, the camera mounting base 25 attached to the camera and the mounting base receiving body 26 attached to the camera platform are slid relative to each other in the X-axis direction to be slid.

  In general, the camera is quite heavy even if it is small. In addition, accessories such as a telephoto lens may be attached to the camera, and in this case, the entire camera becomes heavier. In order to support a heavy camera stably without causing camera shake, a tripod or pan head (and accessory shoe) that is robust and has a large area to support the camera is used. Has been.

  However, the first and second methods described above have the following disadvantages.

  The screw hole 21 is generally arranged near the lens (−X side) on the bottom surface of the camera 20. Therefore, when the first method is used, the area of the camera pedestal 22 that supports the camera is set to be large, and it is difficult to mount the camera while looking at the bottom of the camera. In such a case, for example, confirmation of the fitting state between the camera fixing screw 23 and the camera bottom screw hole 21 must be performed with one eye instead of both eyes. The operation of aligning the screw and the screw hole performed with only one eye is a burden on the operator, and there is a possibility that considerable trial and error is repeated in the mounting operation. When trial and error are repeated, the screw may rub against the bottom of the camera and damage the bottom. In addition, when a camera that has become heavier, such as a telephoto lens is mounted, the burden on the operator for the alignment work is further increased, and there is a possibility that the scratches generated on the camera bottom may be deeper.

  Further, if the second method is used, it is not necessary to perform the screw positioning operation, and the camera can be attached to the pan head relatively easily. However, according to this method, the weight, the number of parts, and the cost are increased by the presence of an accessory shoe that is robust and has a large camera support area.

  Further, the accessory shoe shown in FIG. 6 has a two-stage configuration, and the position of the camera is higher than the designed position as compared with the case without the accessory shoe. In this case, if the position of the camera is moved by the tilt operation, there is a disadvantage that the position of the lens changes more than necessary. The accessory shoe is essentially unnecessary for the photographing operation itself, but rather it is desirable that it is not.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a support plate for facilitating mounting of a camera on a pan head.

  The invention according to claim 1 is a platform mounting support plate for supporting the mounting operation of the camera to the platform, an adhesive portion having an adhesive surface that adheres to the camera, and the camera adhered to the adhesive surface A through hole disposed at the same position as the screw hole, a guide groove provided to guide the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw of the pan head to the through hole, and the guide groove And a position indicator provided so that the position can be confirmed from the outside.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a first thin plate having a surface on which a tip of a threaded portion of the camera fixing screw is slidable, and a first thin plate that is bonded to the first thin plate and has elasticity. 2, the adhesive portion is formed on the first thin plate, and the through hole is formed so as to penetrate the first thin plate and the second thin plate, and the guide groove Is formed by a part of a bonding surface of the first thin plate with the second thin plate and a notch portion of the second thin plate.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, the first thin plate is provided with a convex portion for positioning the camera, the position index is provided on the convex portion, and the convex portion is the first thin plate. A part of the thin plate of 1 is formed by bending.

  The invention described in claim 4 is characterized in that the first thin plate is a hard stainless steel plate and the second thin plate is a hard cork plate.

  The invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that one side of the adhesive portion is an adhesive double-sided tape affixed to the first thin plate.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, in the support plate, when the camera is bonded to the camera via the bonding portion, the camera fixing screw through hole of the pan head is arranged so as to coincide with the screw hole of the camera. ing. The support plate is provided with a guide groove for guiding the camera base positioned on the basis of the position index and the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw to the through hole. Further, the support plate is provided with a position index provided to grasp the position of the through hole from the outside. As a result, the operator inserts the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw into the guide groove while referring to the position index from the outside without directly looking at the screw hole, and passes the through hole along the guide groove. (In other words, the screw hole at the bottom of the camera) can be guided, so that the camera can be easily fixed to the camera platform.

  According to the invention described in claim 2, the support plate is formed by bonding two thin plates (a first thin plate and a second thin plate). Further, the first thin plate has a surface on which the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw can slide, and the second thin plate has elasticity and has a notch. . A guide groove is formed by a part of the surface of the first thin plate and the cutout portion of the second thin plate. As a result, the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw can be smoothly guided to the screw hole of the camera, and the camera bottom screw generated when the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw contacts the camera bottom. Scratches can be prevented from occurring.

  According to the invention described in claim 3, the first thin plate is provided with a convex portion for positioning the camera, and the position index is provided on the convex portion. If it does in this way, it will become possible to adhere in the state where the camera was correctly positioned to the support plate. In addition, since the convex portion used for positioning the camera is exposed to the outside, if a position index is provided here, the operator can easily see the position index, and the camera fixing screw is inserted into the guide groove. It can be easily guided. Furthermore, if this index is formed into a projection, it can be searched with the tentacles at night and the camera can be loaded.

  In addition, according to this, since the convex portion is formed by bending the first thin plate, it is possible to improve the production efficiency of the support plate, and to connect the first thin plate and the convex portion. By integrating them, it is possible to eliminate these positional shifts and improve the positioning accuracy of the camera with respect to the support plate.

  According to the invention described in claim 4, the first thin plate is a hard stainless steel plate having a high surface slidability, and the second thin plate is a hard cork plate having elasticity, thereby being robust, lightweight, and A support plate with high work efficiency can be realized.

  According to the invention described in claim 5, since the adhesive portion is a double-sided adhesive tape, the entire support plate can be thinned.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows the appearance of a thin plate A constituting a support plate according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows the appearance of a thin plate B constituting a support plate according to an embodiment of the present invention. Has been. The support plate of this embodiment is composed of these two thin plates A and B.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the thin plate A is configured around a hard stainless steel plate 1 having a thickness of about 0.1 mm. The hard stainless steel plate 1 is a thin plate having an adhesive surface (+ Z side surface) having the same size and shape as the bottom surface of a camera (not shown in FIG. 1, see FIG. 4) to be attached to the camera platform. . That is, the hard stainless steel plate 1 is dimensioned so that the bonding surface has the same shape and the same area as the bottom surface of the camera described later. The + X axis end portion of the hard stainless steel plate 1 is bent to the + Z side. In the following, the part bent up and raised up at a right angle (convex part) is referred to as a right-angled bending rising part 7. The height of the right-angle bend rising portion 7 is, for example, about 5 mm.

  On the adhesive surface of the hard stainless steel plate 1, a double-sided adhesive tape 4 with a release paper 3 is attached. When the bottom surface of the camera is bonded to the bonding surface, the release paper 3 is peeled off, and the back surface of the camera (the surface opposite to the lens side surface) is in contact with the right-angled bending rising portion 7. The surface comes into contact with the bottom of the camera.

  The thin plate A is provided with a through hole 2 which is a cylindrical through hole. This through hole 2 is a hole for passing a camera fixing screw provided on a pan head (not shown in FIG. 1). The diameter is set to be slightly larger than the diameter of the camera fixing screw (for example, 6 mm), and is about 6.5 mm, for example. The through hole 2 is disposed so as to coincide with a screw hole on the camera bottom described later in a state where the thin plate A is bonded to the camera bottom surface.

  An index 6 is provided on the + X side surface of the right-angle bend rising portion 7. The Y position of the index 6 coincides with the Y position of the through hole 2 (that is, the Y position of the guide groove described later). Even when viewed from the + X side, the position of the guide groove can be determined by looking at the index 6. It is possible to grasp.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the thin plate B is configured around a hard cork plate 11 having a thickness of about 0.7 mm, for example. The hard cork plate 11 is measured so that the surface on the + Z side has the same shape and the same area as the surface on the −Z side of the hard stainless steel plate 1. A double-sided adhesive tape 10 with release paper 9 is attached to the surface of the hard cork plate 11 on the + Z side.

  The thin plate B is provided with a notch 12 at the center of the + X end. The innermost part of the notch 12 has a semi-cylindrical shape having a diameter substantially the same as the diameter of the through hole 2 (for example, 6.5 mm), and the thin plate A and the thin plate B are pasted without misalignment. When they are aligned, they match the position of the through hole 2. The notch 12 is formed so as to expand radially from the innermost portion in the + X direction. In addition, the width | variety of the X-axis direction of the + X end of the notch part 12 can be about 10 mm, for example. Such a notch 12 can be easily formed by cutting.

  FIG. 3 shows a state where the thin plate A and the thin plate B are bonded together. This figure is a view of the support plate 100 as viewed from the thin plate B side. As can be seen from FIG. 3, the support plate 100 according to the present embodiment has a two-sheet structure in which the thin plate A and the thin plate B are bonded together. After the release plate 9 of the thin plate B is peeled off, the adhesive tape 10 is used to remove the −Z side surface (the fabric surface side surface) of the hard stainless steel plate 1 and the + Z side surface of the hard cork plate 11 (the adhesive tape 10 is attached). 3 is pasted together, the state shown in FIG. 3 is obtained. As a result of the bonding, a guide groove 13 is formed by the notch 12 and a part of the surface on the −Z side of the hard stainless steel plate 1. Further, the position of the through hole 2 of the thin plate A coincides with the position of the innermost portion of the guide groove 13. The guide groove 13 is a groove for guiding a camera fixing screw on the camera platform side described later to the through hole 2 (that is, a screw hole on the camera bottom described later). Since the guide groove 13 is composed of the hard stainless steel plate 1 having a high slidability and the hard cork plate 11 having a high elastic force, the camera fixing screw on the pan head side is smooth without being damaged. It will be led to the screw hole of the camera.

<Camera mounting operation>
Next, a camera mounting operation using the support plate 100 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In the following description, it is assumed that the thin plate A and the thin plate B are already pasted together and the support plate 100 is formed. Here, it is assumed that the worker works from the position of + X side and higher than the camera while looking at the camera, the support plate, and the pan head.

  First, the operator peeled off the release paper 3 and then brought the lower part of the back surface of the camera 20 (the + X side surface opposite to the lens side) into contact with the right-angled bending rising portion 7 of the hard stainless steel plate 1. In this state, the + Z side adhesive surface of the support plate and the bottom surface of the camera 20 are attached. As a result, the camera 20 and the support plate 100 are integrated as shown in FIG. The camera 20 and the support plate 100 can be attached without being displaced by the positioning by the right-angle bend riser 7. That is, the right-angle bend rising portion 7 serves as a convex portion for positioning the camera 20 at the time of pasting. When the camera 20 and the support plate 100 are affixed without misalignment, the screw-through hole 2 of the thin plate A and the screw hole 21 provided on the camera bottom coincide with each other.

  Next, the operator moves the camera 20 with his hand so that the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 of the camera platform pedestal 22 approaches the guide groove 13 in the direction indicated by the thick arrow. . At this time, the index 6 of the support plate 100 is directed to the + X side, and the operator refers to the index 6 from the + X side and above the camera (+ Z side), and guides the guide groove 13 to the camera. It is possible to match the tip of the threaded portion of the fixing screw 23. With this operation, the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 enters the guide groove 13 and comes into contact with the surface of the hard stainless steel plate 1 constituting the guide groove 13.

  Thereafter, the operator slides the camera held in the hand to the + X side while the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 is fitted in the guide groove 13. In this way, the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 moves relatively along the guide groove 13 as indicated by the thick arrow, and finally reaches the innermost portion of the guide groove 13. To reach. When the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 reaches the innermost part of the guide groove 13, the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 passes through the through hole of the support plate 100, and the camera fixing screw 23 is The camera fixing screw 23 and the screw hole 21 come into engagement with the screw hole 21 on the bottom of the camera.

  In this state, when the operator operates the knob 24 of the camera base 22 and turns the camera fixing screw 23 to tighten the screw, the camera 20 is fixed to the camera base 22.

  The support plate 100 is very thin and the camera height can be ignored. The amount of movement of the camera generated by the pan head rotation operation with this camera attached is small, which is very different from the accessory shoe method in which the camera is attached to slide.

  As described above in detail, in the support plate 100 of the present embodiment, when the adhesive plate 4 is bonded to the camera, the camera fixing screw 23 of the camera base 22 is aligned with the screw hole 21 of the camera 20. Through-holes 2 are disposed. The support plate 100 is provided with a guide groove 13 for guiding the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 of the camera base 22 positioned with reference to the index 6 to the through hole 2. Further, the support plate 100 is provided with an index 6 provided to grasp the position of the guide groove 13 from the + X side and from above the camera 20. As a result, the operator refers to the index 6 from the + X side and from above the camera without directly looking at the screw hole 21, and the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 is inserted into the through hole 2 (that is, the camera The camera 20 can be easily fixed to the camera base 22 because it can be guided to the screw hole 21) at the bottom.

  That is, if this support plate 100 is used, the operator does not have to peek at the screw 21 on the bottom surface of the camera 20 from below and experience the pain of matching the tip of the camera fixing screw 23 with that. The camera can be mounted with high eyes. Such peeping becomes more difficult as the area of the camera bottom surface or the camera cradle 22 becomes larger. However, if the support plate 100 of the present embodiment is used, it is not necessary to perform such peeping. The camera can be easily attached regardless of various conditions such as the size and weight of the camera.

  Moreover, according to this embodiment, the support plate 100 is formed by bonding two thin plates A and B together. The thin plate A includes the hard stainless steel plate 1 and has a surface on which the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 can slide. Further, the thin plate B includes a hard cork plate 11 having elasticity and a notch portion 12. A guide groove 13 is formed by the surface of the thin plate A and the cutout portion 12 of the second thin plate. Thereby, the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 can be smoothly guided to the screw hole 21 of the camera 20, and the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw 23 is placed on the bottom surface of the camera 20. Generation | occurrence | production of the crack of the bottom face of the camera 20 which arises by contacting can be prevented.

  The support plate does not necessarily have a two-sheet structure, and may be integrally formed by casting, injection molding, or the like, or may be configured by three or more sheets.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, the thin plate A is provided with the right-angle bending upright portion 7 for positioning the camera 20. Thereby, it becomes possible to adhere | attach the camera 20 in the state positioned correctly with respect to the support plate 100. FIG.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, the index 6 is provided on the right-angle bend rising portion 7. Since the right-angle bending upright portion 7 used for positioning the camera 20 is widely exposed to the outside (+ X side), if an index 6 is provided here, the operator can easily see the index 6. The position of the screw hole 21 can be easily grasped, and the efficiency of the camera mounting operation is improved.

  In the present embodiment, the hard stainless steel plate 1 has the right-angle bent portion 7, but the present invention is not limited to this. That is, the right-angled bent portion 7 may not be provided. Even if the right-angle bent portion 7 is not provided, if the support plate is used, the mounting operation of the camera 20 is simplified. In this case, an index may be attached to the lowermost part of the back of the camera itself (upper guide groove 13).

  Further, according to the present embodiment, the right-angle bend rising portion 7 is formed by bending the hard stainless steel plate 1. In this way, the processing efficiency of the support plate 100 can be improved, and the positioning accuracy of the camera 20 with respect to the support plate 100 can be improved by integrating the thin plate A and the right-angle bend rising portion 7 together. However, the convex portion for positioning the camera and the portion for disposing the index may be formed by screwing or bonding.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, the thin plate A is the hard stainless steel plate 1 having a high surface slidability, and the thin plate B is the hard cork plate 11 having elasticity. In this way, the entire support plate 100 can be made robust, lightweight, and have high work efficiency.

  In the above embodiment, the hard stainless steel plate is used as the material of the thin plate A in consideration of the point of being hard and the ease of processing, but any other material may be used as long as it does not cause scratches on the camera bottom. The material can be adopted. For example, even if a chemical compound such as a polyprene resin, a metal plate, or a plating material is used, the surface of these materials has a slip effect. Can be prevented.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the hard cork board 11 was employ | adopted, it is also possible to employ | adopt another material. For example, instead of the hard cork plate 11, it is also possible to employ a synthetic resin that is hard and has a vibration proofing effect.

  In addition, according to the present embodiment, the support plate 100 is formed of a thin plate, and the adhesive portion with the bottom surface of the camera 20 is a double-sided tape, so that the entire support plate 100 can be thinned. it can. As a result, the height of the camera attached to the pan head is almost the same, so the amount of camera movement during the pan head rotation operation is small and can be halved compared to the case of using the accessory shoe (in the case of FIG. 6). The advantage is great.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, since the surface on the + Z side of the support plate 100, that is, the adhesion surface with the camera 20 has the same shape and size as the bottom surface of the corresponding camera, the support plate 100 and the camera 20 It is possible to reduce the positional deviation between the through hole and the screw hole when these are bonded together. However, as long as the support plate 100 and the camera 20 can be bonded together without any problem (without misalignment), they do not necessarily have the same shape and the same area.

  In addition, this invention is not restrict | limited to the kind and size of a camera. For example, even if the width of the camera is reduced, the effect of the present invention does not change. That is, when there is an accessory storage section or an electrical contact at the bottom of the camera, it is sufficient to make the shape avoiding this location, and there is no inconvenience.

  In addition, the support plate according to the present invention can be built in the camera itself. If it becomes clear that the function of the camera does not deteriorate from the standpoint of materials by incorporating the support plate, the present invention can be applied to the camera itself.

  In short, the present invention provides a support plate having a guide groove and an index for notifying an operator of the position of the guide groove, and its shape, structure and combination are limited to those of the above-described embodiment. is not. It suffices for the operator to fit the camera fixing screw into the guide groove and guide it to the screw hole on the bottom surface of the camera based on the index.

It is an external appearance perspective view of the thin plate A which comprises the support plate which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is an external appearance perspective view of the thin plate B which comprises the support plate which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is an appearance perspective view of a support board concerning one embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the attachment operation | movement of a camera. It is a figure for demonstrating the attachment method (the 1) of the conventional camera and a pan head. It is a figure for demonstrating the attachment method (the 2) of the conventional camera and a pan head.

Explanation of symbols

1 Hard Stainless Steel Plate 2 Through-hole 3 Release Paper 4 Adhesive Tape 6 Index 7 Right Angle Bending Standup (Convex)
9 Release paper 10 Adhesive tape 11 Hard cork board 12 Notch 13 Guide groove 20 Camera 21 Screw hole 22 Camera holder 23 Camera fixing screw 24 Knob 25 Camera mounting base 26 Mounting base receiving body 27 Camera fixing screw 28 Head screw Hole 100 Support plate A, B Thin plate

Claims (5)

A support plate for mounting the camera platform to support the camera mounting work on the camera platform,
An adhesive portion having an adhesive surface to adhere to the camera;
A through hole disposed at the same position as the screw hole of the camera bonded to the bonding surface;
A guide groove provided to guide the tip of the threaded portion of the camera fixing screw of the pan head to the through hole;
A position index provided so that the position of the guide groove can be confirmed from the outside;
A support plate for mounting the pan head. A first thin plate having a slidable surface at a tip of a threaded portion of the camera fixing screw; and a second thin plate bonded to the first thin plate and having elasticity,
The adhesive portion is formed on the first thin plate,
The through hole is formed to penetrate the first thin plate and the second thin plate,
The guide groove is formed by a part of a surface of the first thin plate that is bonded to the second thin plate, and a notch portion of the second thin plate. A support plate for mounting the pan head according to 1. In the first thin plate,
Protrusions for positioning the camera are provided,
The position index is provided on the convex portion,
The head mounting support plate according to claim 2, wherein the convex portion is formed by bending a part of the first thin plate. The first thin plate is a hard stainless steel plate;
The head mounting support plate according to claim 3, wherein the second thin plate is a hard cork plate. The adhesive portion is
5. The pan / tilt head support plate according to claim 1, wherein one surface is a double-sided adhesive tape affixed to the first thin plate.

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