Patent ID: 7830448

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a power source; a power supply circuit connected to the power source and having power supply lines for supplying a positive voltage and a negative voltage; an image pickup element; plural drivers connected to the power supply circuit through the power supply lines, for generating multi-phase driving signals and applying the generated multi-phase driving signals to the image pickup element; a discharging circuit connected to a ground plane; a conducting circuit connected to the power supply line for a negative voltage, wherein the power supply line for a negative voltage is commonly connected to the conducting circuit and the plural drivers; and a controller for controlling the conducting circuit to discharge unnecessary charge accumulated in the power source through the power supply line for a negative voltage to the discharging circuit at the time when the power source is turned off; and wherein the conducting circuit is a driver which has the same circuit configuration as the plural drivers but is not used to generate a driving signal.