Patent ID: 8711236

Claim:
A blur correction device comprising: a base body; a holder that holds an optical element and is movably associated with the base body along an optical axis defining an optical axis direction, a x-axis defining a x-axis direction and a y-axis defining a y-axis direction, the optical axis, the x-axis and the y-axis perpendicularly intersecting one another at a common reference point; a drive section that moves the holder with respect to the base body in the x-axis and y-axis directions and relative to the common reference point; and a plate spring having an elastically-deformable first urging portion, an elastically-deformable second urging portion and an elastically-deformable third urging portion serially connected together as an integral construction, the plate spring disposed between and coupling the holder and the base body together, wherein, the elastically-deformable first urging portion urges the holder in the x-axis direction towards the common reference point when the drive section moves the holder relative to the base body in the x-axis direction, the elastically-deformable second urging portion urges the holder relative to the base body in the y-axis direction towards the common reference point when the drive section moves the holder relative to the base body in the y-axis direction and the elastically-deformable third urging portion urges the holder and the base body together along the optical axis when the holder and base body move apart from one another in the optical axis direction.