US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 23 for "Image pickup apparatus with high heat dissipation performance" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,940, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus with high heat dissipation performance" was invented by Yuji Ueda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus having high heat dissipation performance. The image pickup apparatus comprises a board having an image pickup device, a sheet metal member disposed closer to a front surface side than the board and adjacent to the board in an optical axis direction, an electronic component board disposed closer to a back surface side than the board, and a battery chamber disposed near an outer edge of the board. The sheet metal member is th...