Patent ID: 8891005
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: G03B,G08B

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus that includes an impact absorbing mechanism, the imaging apparatus comprising: a dome cover; a lens unit covered by the dome cover and including a lens and an image sensor mounted in an image sensor mounting unit; a supporting unit having a drawing unit configured to elastically support the lens unit so the lens unit can perform a retreat operation in an opposite direction from a direction of a moving object external to the dome cover and along an optical axis direction of the lens unit, wherein during the retreat operation, the lens unit translates relative to a taper portion of the drawing unit; a base unit configured to support the supporting unit in a manner that can tilt; and a fixing base unit provided with the dome cover and configured to support the base unit, wherein the supporting unit is disposed so as that a projection surface of the image sensor mounting unit on a surface vertical to the optical axis of the lens unit is inside an outermost diameter of an orbit which is acquired by rotating the lens unit about the optical axis.