JP6597745B2 - Support device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus for assisting operation of a member to be operated that is out of reach of a user.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an external device having a configuration in which an imaging device is attached to one end of a rod-shaped member and an operation member for operating the imaging device is provided on the other end of the rod-shaped member in order to capture an image at a user-desired angle of view Yes (see Patent Document 1).

Utility Model Registration No. 3184252

  However, the configuration described in Patent Literature 1 is insufficient for the user to perform a desired operation on the operation target, and there is a concern that the user's convenience may be impaired.

  The subject of this invention is improving the convenience of a user in the operation member provided in the rod-shaped member provided with a to-be-operated object at one end.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides:
A support device that can be coupled to a rod-like member having an imaging device at one end,
Operates the imaging device, the operating member comprising a display means for displaying the image captured by the imaging device, a first fixing member for removably fixed to the support device,
A second fixing member for removably fixing the support device to the rod-shaped member;
In the state where the first fixing member and the second fixing member overlap with each other, the operation member is arranged with respect to the axial direction of the rod-shaped member around the first rotation axis perpendicular to the rod-shaped member. A first rotating member that rotates in a separating direction;
Said operating member in a rotational position of the by Risho constant in rotation around said first axis of rotation of said first rotary member, a plane formed from an axial direction of said first rotary shaft and the bar-like member A second rotating member that rotates around a second rotation axis perpendicular to the plane at the position rotated to the predetermined rotation position;
It is characterized by providing.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, a user's convenience can be improved in the operation member provided in the rod-shaped member provided with an operation target at one end.

It is the top view which shows the structure of one Embodiment of the rod-shaped member and electronic device to which this invention is applied, The figure (a) of the state which shortened the rod-shaped member, and the figure (b) of the state which extended the rod-shaped member. FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the relationship between the imaging device and the operation member in FIG. 1, and a plan view (a) when the connection between the imaging device and the operation member is released, and the imaging device and the operation member are rotated in a connected state. It is a side view (b) when made to do. It is the enlarged view (a) of the state which removed the imaging device of Fig.1 (a), and its side view (b). It is the figure which expanded the support apparatus side of FIG.3 (b), and showed the method of fixing an operation member. It is an expansion perspective view by the side of the operation member of FIG.1 (b). FIG. 6 is an enlarged side view of the operation member part of FIG. It is the figure which showed the tilting operation | movement of the operation member part of FIG. FIG. 5A shows a state in which the operation member of FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 is raised by 45 degrees, FIG. 5B shows a state in which the operating member is rotated by 90 degrees, and FIG. FIG. 4D is a diagram illustrating a 90-degree rotation state with the 90-degree tilt.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
(Embodiment)
FIG. 1 shows a configuration of an embodiment of a rod-like member 1 and an electronic apparatus to which the present invention is applied. Reference numeral 2 denotes an imaging device (an object to be operated), and 3 denotes an operation member.

As shown in the figure, the rod-shaped member 1 includes a hand portion 11 and a telescopic portion 12, and the electronic device includes an imaging device 2 that is an operation target and an operation member 3 that operates the imaging device 2. .
In addition, the imaging device 2 is detachably fixed to the distal end of the expansion / contraction part 12, and the operation member 3 is detachably fixed to the hand 11 side end of the expansion / contraction part 12.
FIG. 1A shows a state in which the expansion / contraction part 12 is contracted, and the imaging device 2 and the operation member 3 are arranged close to each other as illustrated.
FIG. 1B shows a state in which the telescopic portion 12 is extended, and the imaging device 2 and the operation member 3 are largely separated as shown in the figure.

  FIG. 2 shows the relationship between the imaging device 2 and the operation member 3 in FIG. 1. As shown in the figure, the imaging device 2 including the lens unit 21 and the operation member 3 including the display unit 31 are detachably connected. Yes. In the connected state, the imaging device 2 and the operation member 3 can be rotated by the hinge coupling member 4.

The imaging device 2 is provided with a power button 22, a shutter button 23, a moving image shooting start / end button 24, and a connection release button 25 along the outer peripheral wall.
The housing of the imaging device 2 has a resin case on the side including the lens portion 21 and a peripheral wall portion, and a metal case on the opposite side, and an antenna (not shown) is built around the lens portion 21.

The operating member 3 is provided with a detachable slit (not shown) on one short side thereof, and a power button 32, a shutter button 33, and a moving image shooting start / end button 34 are provided on one long side. A connection release button 35 is provided on the other long side.
The imaging device 2 and the operation member 3 described above are connected by wireless communication. With this configuration, the support device of the present application has a feature that it is difficult to be subjected to physical restrictions such as limitation due to the length of the cable.

In addition, the hinge coupling member 4 is formed by connecting a resin ring-shaped cover 41 and a metal plate insertion member 42 in a foldable manner, and the ring-shaped cover 41 is detachable around the lens unit 21 side of the imaging device 2. Thus, the insertion member 42 can be inserted into the attachment / detachment slit 32 of the operation member 3.
When the ring-shaped cover 41 and the insertion member 42 are rotated and opened to 180 °, the hinge coupling member 4 is locked at both ends, and holds the 180 ° open state (hereinafter referred to as a straight state).

The ring-shaped cover 41 is joined to the imaging device 2 by a bayonet-type coupling that can be locked by a plurality of claws and stoppers (not shown), and the imaging device 2 can be attached and detached by rotating the ring-shaped cover 41.
Further, after the imaging device 2 and the ring-shaped cover 41 are joined, a lock is applied by a pin (not shown) provided in the imaging device 2 to prevent inadvertent dropout and to fix the lens angle of view (vertical and horizontal positions).
The lock is released by pressing the connection release button 25 of the imaging device 2, and the imaging device 2 can be disconnected from the ring-shaped cover 41.

The insertion member 42 is inserted into the attachment / detachment slit (not shown) of the operation member 3. As a result, the insertion member 42 is fixed by the locking function (not shown) provided in the operation member 3 in the horizontally long fixing slit 43, and is prevented from falling off the operation member 3.
The lock is released by pressing the connection release button 35 of the operation member 3, and the operation member 3 can be disconnected from the insertion member 42 as shown in FIG.

Furthermore, although not shown, a vertically long tripod fixing hole is formed in the insertion member 42 as a shape portion for fixing the imaging device 2 to a predetermined installation location (for example, a tripod).
In addition, the shape part for fixing to such a tripod and the shape part for fixing to the operation member 3 may be the same hole or slit, or different holes or slits.

In the joined state of the imaging device 2 and the operating member 3 by the hinge coupling member 4 described above, in the straight state of the imaging device 2 and the operating member 3, the lens unit 21 and the display unit 31 are on the same plane, and are suitable for selfies. It becomes.
For example, as shown in FIG. 2B, the imaging device 2 and the operation member 3 can be rotated to an arbitrary angle by the hinge coupling member 4.

  FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the state in which the image pickup device 2 of FIG. 1 is removed. As shown in the figure, an attachment member 5 for detachably attaching the image pickup device 2 is provided at the tip of the telescopic portion 12 of the rod-like member 1. An attachment 6, which is a support device that detachably fixes the operation member 3, is provided at the end of the telescopic portion 12 on the hand portion 11 side.

The attachment member 5 includes a screw 53 on an attachment base 52 attached to the distal end of the expansion / contraction part 12 via a rotation shaft 51 orthogonal to the rod-shaped member 1.
The imaging device 2 is fixed to the mounting base 52 by inserting the screw 53 into a tripod fixing hole (not shown) of the insertion member 42 of the hinge coupling member 4 integral with the imaging device 2 described above and tightening a nut (not shown). The

The attachment 6 is attached to a fixing base 61 in which the end of the expansion / contraction part 12 on the side of the hand part 11 is inserted into a through hole and fixed detachably by screwing, and is attached via a rotary shaft 62 orthogonal to the rod-shaped member 1. 1 rotation member 63, and a second rotation member 65 attached to the first rotation member 63 via a rotation shaft 64 orthogonal to the rotation shaft 62.
In addition, the fixing base 61 may be constituted by an upper and lower divided body, and may be an attachment structure in which the upper and lower divided bodies sandwich the end of the extensible part 12 on the hand part 11 side and are detachably fixed by screwing.

The second rotating member 65 is formed with an attaching / detaching slit 66 on one short side as in the operation member 3 described above. An insertion member similar to the insertion member 42 described above is inserted into the attachment / detachment slit 66, and the insertion member is inserted into the second rotation member 65 in the horizontally long fixing slit, similarly to the operation member 3 described above. It is fixed by the provided lock function (not shown), and is prevented from falling off from the second rotating member 65.
The lock is released by pressing a connection release button (not shown) provided on the second rotating member 65, and the second rotating member 65 can be disconnected from the insertion member.

FIG. 4 shows how the operation member 3 is fixed by enlarging the attachment 6 in FIG. 3 (b). As shown in the drawing, the connection member 7 including a pair of parallel insertion members 71 and 72 is used. The operation member 3 is fixed to the attachment 6. The pair of insertion members 71 and 72 has the same configuration as the insertion member 42 described above.
That is, one insertion member 71 of the coupling member 7 is inserted into the attachment / detachment slit 66 of the second rotating member 65 and fixed, while the other insertion member 72 is inserted into the attachment / detachment slit of the operation member 3 and fixed.

Therefore, the second rotating member 65 also serves as a fixing member that fixes the operation member 3 to the attachment 6.
The coupling member 7 also serves as a fixing member that fixes the operation member 3 to the attachment 6.
And the fixing stand 61 is a 2nd fixing member which fixes the attachment 6 to the rod-shaped member 1 so that attachment or detachment is possible.

5 and 6 are enlarged views of the operation member 3 side of FIG. 1B, and the operation member 3 fixed to the second rotation member 65 of the attachment 6 by the coupling member 7 rotates with respect to the fixed base 61. The first rotating member 63 rotates integrally with the shaft 62 and tilts with respect to the fixed base 61 as shown in FIG. 7, and reaches a state where it is raised 90 degrees as indicated by a virtual line in FIG.
This tilting operation is performed step by step with a click feeling by a click mechanism (not shown) provided around the rotation shaft 62.

FIG. 8 shows each angle state and rotation state of the operation member 3 of FIGS. 5 and 6.
That is, for example, as shown in FIG. 8 (a), from the state where the operating member 3 is raised 45 degrees, as shown in FIG. 8 (b), the first rotating member 63 and the rotating shaft 64 are integrated. Thus, the second rotating member 65 rotates and the operating member 3 can be rotated by 90 degrees.
Similarly, as shown in FIG. 8C, from the state where the operating member 3 is raised 90 degrees, as shown in FIG. 8D, the first rotating member 63 is integrated with the rotating shaft 64. The operation member 3 can be rotated by 90 degrees by rotating the second rotating member 65.
This rotation operation is performed in stages with a click feeling by a click mechanism (not shown) provided around the rotation shaft 64.

  In this way, the operation member 3 including the display unit 31 is fixed to the attachment 6 attached to the proximal portion 11 side of the rod-shaped member 1, and the manipulation member 3 is raised on the proximal portion 11 side of the rod-shaped member 1 to 90 degrees. By tilting arbitrarily within the range, the screen of the display unit 31 can be viewed from any angle, and further, by rotating the operation member 3 in the vertical and horizontal directions, the screen of the display unit 31 can be always checked in an easily viewable state. Can do.

In addition, about the imaging device 2 attached to the attachment member 5 at the front-end | tip of the expansion-contraction part 12 of the rod-shaped member 1, as shown in FIG.1 (b), in the front-end | tip of the state which extended the expansion-contraction part 12, via the rotating shaft 51, it is. The imaging device 2 fixed to the mounting base 52 attached by the insertion member 42 can be photographed by rotating the imaging device 2 to an arbitrary angle by the hinge coupling member 4 and changing the direction of the lens unit 21.
In addition, for example, with the imaging device 2 facing down and the rod-shaped member 1 standing in a direction perpendicular to the ground, the imaging device 2 is placed in the water to shoot underwater, or the lens unit 21 faces upward. You can also.

  In this manner, the imaging device 2 can be attached to the attachment member 5 at the distal end of the expansion / contraction part 12 of the rod-shaped member 1, and the direction of the lens unit 21 of the imaging device 2 can be arbitrarily changed to take an image.

  As described above, the maximum merit of the camera in which the imaging device 2 and the operation member 3 are separated can be used in an optimum state for photographing such as selfie photographing.

As described above, according to the embodiment, the attachment 6 that can be coupled to the rod-shaped member 1 including the imaging device 2 at one end is the fixing member (first member) that fixes the operation member 3 that remotely operates the imaging device 2 by wireless communication to the attachment 6. 2 and a first rotating member 63 that rotates the fixing members 65 and 7 in a direction perpendicular to the rod-shaped member 1.
Further, the fixing member that fixes the operation member 3 to the attachment 6 includes a second rotation member 65 that rotates the operation member 3 stepwise in a direction perpendicular to the rotation shaft 62 of the first rotation member 63. .

  Accordingly, in the operation member 3 provided on the proximal portion 11 side of the rod-shaped member 1 having the imaging device 2 at the distal end of the expansion / contraction part 12, the operation member 3 is arbitrarily set by the first rotation member 63 and the second rotation member 65, respectively. It is possible to improve the convenience of the user by rotating to the angle.

(Modification)
In the above embodiment, the object to be operated is the imaging device, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may be another electronic device such as a mobile phone including the imaging device.
In the embodiment, the operation device support device is provided on the rod-shaped member. However, a support device including the rod-shaped member may be used.
Furthermore, the shapes of the operation target, the operation member, the fixing member, the rotation member, and the insertion member are arbitrary, and it is needless to say that other specific detailed structures can be appropriately changed.

  Although the rotation operation by the first rotation member 63 and the second rotation member is configured to rotate stepwise with a click feeling by the click mechanism, it is configured to rotate smoothly without the click mechanism. Also good.

  The attachment 6 and the operation member 3 are configured to be fixed using a detachable slit. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and an arrangement may be adopted in which an arm is provided and fixed.

  Moreover, you may comprise so that the rod-shaped member 1 and the operation member 3 may be fixed directly, without passing through the attachment 6. FIG.

  In addition, the attachment 6 is configured to be detachably attached to the rod-shaped member 1, but the rod-shaped member 1 and the attachment 6 may be configured to be an integrated structure.

As mentioned above, although several embodiment of this invention was described, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, The range of the invention described in the claim, and its equivalent range Including.
The invention described in the scope of claims attached to the application of this application will be added below.
The item numbers of the claims described in the appendix are as set forth in the claims attached to the application of this application.
[Appendix]
<Claim 1>
A support device that can be coupled to a rod-shaped member having an object to be operated at one end,
A first fixing member for fixing the operation member for operating the operation target to the support device;
A first rotating member that rotates the first fixing member in a direction away from the axial direction of the rod-shaped member;
A support device comprising:
<Claim 2>
A support device that can be coupled to a rod-shaped member having an object to be operated at one end,
A support device comprising: a first fixing member that removably fixes an operation member that operates the operation target to the support device.
<Claim 3>
The first fixing member includes an insertion member that can be inserted into the operation member,
The support device according to claim 1, wherein the operation member is fixed to the support device by the insertion member.
<Claim 4>
The support device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising a second fixing member that detachably fixes the support device to the rod-shaped member.
<Claim 5>
The first rotating member rotates the first fixing member in a direction away from the second fixing member in a state where the first fixing member and the second fixing member overlap each other. The support device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the support device is characterized.
<Claim 6>
5. The first rotation member tilts and rotates the first fixing member stepwise in a direction away from the axial direction of the rod-shaped member. 6. The support device as described.
<Claim 7>
The first fixing member includes a second rotating member that rotates the operation member in a direction perpendicular to a rotation axis of the first rotating member. The support device according to item.
<Claim 8>
The said 1st fixing member contains the 2nd rotation member which rotates the said operation member in steps perpendicularly | vertically with respect to the rotating shaft of the said 1st rotation member. Support device.
<Claim 9>
A rod-shaped member having an object to be operated at one end;
A fixing member that is provided on the rod-shaped member and fixes an operation member that manipulates the operation target to the rod-shaped member;
A rotating member that rotates the fixing member in a direction away from the axial direction of the rod-shaped member;
A support device comprising:
<Claim 10>
The fixing member includes an insertion member that can be inserted into the operation member,
The support device according to claim 7, wherein the operation member is fixed to the support device by the insertion member.
<Claim 11>
The support device according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the rotating member rotates the fixing member stepwise in a direction away from the axial direction of the rod-shaped member.
<Claim 12>
The support device according to claim 1, wherein the operation target includes an imaging device.
<Claim 13>
The support device according to claim 10, wherein the operation member includes display means for displaying an image captured by the imaging device.
<Claim 14>
The support device according to claim 1, wherein the operation target is detachably attached to the rod-shaped member.
<Claim 15>
The support device according to any one of claims 1 to 14, wherein the operation member is detachable from the operation target.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bar-shaped member 11 Hand part 12 Expansion / contraction part 2 Imaging device (operated object)
21 Lens unit 22 Power button 23 Shutter button 24 Movie start / end button 25 Connection release button 3 Operation member 31 Display unit 32 Power button 33 Shutter button 34 Movie start / end button 35 Connection release button 4 Hinge coupling member 41 Ring-shaped cover 42 Insertion member 43 Fixing slit 5 Mounting member 51 Rotating shaft 52 Mounting base 53 Screw 6 Support device 61 Fixing base (second fixing member)
62 Rotating shaft 63 First rotating member 64 Rotating shaft 65 Second rotating member (first fixing member)
66 Detachable slit 7 Connecting member (first fixing member)
71 Insertion member 72 Insertion member

Claims (6)

A support device that can be coupled to a rod-like member having an imaging device at one end,
Operates the imaging device, the operating member comprising a display means for displaying the image captured by the imaging device, a first fixing member for removably fixed to the support device,
A second fixing member for removably fixing the support device to the rod-shaped member;
In the state where the first fixing member and the second fixing member overlap with each other, the operation member is arranged with respect to the axial direction of the rod-shaped member around the first rotation axis perpendicular to the rod-shaped member. A first rotating member that rotates in a separating direction;
Said operating member in a rotational position of the by Risho constant in rotation around said first axis of rotation of said first rotary member, a plane formed from an axial direction of said first rotary shaft and the bar-like member A second rotating member that rotates around a second rotation axis perpendicular to the plane at the position rotated to the predetermined rotation position;
A support device comprising: The first fixing member includes an insertion member that can be inserted into the operation member,
The support device according to claim 1, wherein the operation member is fixed to the support device by the insertion member. 3. The support device according to claim 1 , wherein the first rotating member tilts and rotates the first fixing member stepwise in a direction away from the axial direction of the rod-shaped member . 4. The support device according to claim 1, wherein the second rotating member rotates the operation member stepwise about the second rotation axis . 5. The support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the imaging device is detachably attached to the rod-shaped member . The support device according to claim 1 , wherein the operation member is detachable from the imaging device.

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