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- Subject: Re: How USM works?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.052440.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Nov20.190250.3825@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:24:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.190250.3825@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>, jhuang@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jian Huang) writes:
- > Can anyone give me a brief desciption on how the USM works.
-
- No
- > Is it a kind of step motor? What signals will I get from
- > USM lenes(e.g. positions of zoom and iris)? I also like to
- > get information on how I can get some of the technical
- > details on camera electronics(e.g. books, trade magazines).
- >
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- There is near zero on the EF lens interface arround yet. The VL video lens
- interface and the Canon EF lens glossy are starting points...
-
- AS to the motor... Go to your library and look in mech engines books for
- "Harmonic drive" Design oif Machne Elements 4th Ed, by virgil Faires p479 is
- one. It is a n tooth gear inside a n+2 tooth gear. The outer gear is flexed and
- a drive ratio of n/2 is abtained. n can easily be several hundred. The original
- used an eliptic drive member, Canon have used sequenced Pietzo elements. It is
- not a stepper.
-
- ~Paul
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