Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hidetoshi Kei

Ryoji Okuno

Keita Iwai

Takashi Yoshida

Jiro Yamamoto

Masayoshi Shibata

Shingo Iwatani

Yoichi Osada

A waterproof camera system that can easily perform underwater image pickup and overwater image pickup. The waterproof camera system includes an image pickup apparatus, a waterproof casing that hermetically stores the image pickup apparatus. The image pickup apparatus includes a first housing that includes a lens unit and a second housing that holds the first housing. The waterproof casing includes a first section that surrounds a circumference of the first housing and a second section that surrounds a circumference of the second housing. The waterproof camera system has buoyancy that floats the waterproof camera system on a water surface in both a first posture in which the first section of the waterproof casing is in an underwater side and a second posture in which the first section is in an overwater side in a state where the image pickup apparatus is stored.

Waterproof camera system and waterproof casing

A waterproof camera system that maintains a wireless connection state with an external device while floating on a water surface includes an image pickup apparatus equipped with a wireless module, a waterproof casing that hermetically stores the image pickup apparatus, and a float attached to the waterproof casing. An antenna unit of the wireless module is arranged at either a position with a height approximately equal to a water surface or a position separated from the water surface in an above water direction in each of a first position where the waterproof camera system floats on the water surface so that the image pickup apparatus can perform underwater image pickup and a second position where the waterproof camera system floats on the water surface so that the image pickup apparatus can perform above water image pickup.

Waterproof camera system

An electronic view finder unit provided in an image pickup apparatus is movable between a retracted state in which the electronic view finder unit is retracted in a main body and a projecting state in which the electronic view finder unit projects from the main body. The electronic viewfinder unit includes a viewfinder having a display device, an eyepiece portion, and a lens holder. The eyepiece portion is slidable between an inserted position and an extracted position in the optical axis direction of the lens. At the position where, in the projecting state, the eyepiece portion is extracted, the viewfinder is rotatable around an axis orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens. Both during the rotating operation of the viewfinder and in a state in which the rotating operation has completed, the movement of the eyepiece portion from the extracted position to the inserted position is limited.

Electronic apparatus

An image capturing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes first protrusion portions which are formed in a circumferential shape centered on a rotation axis of a lens barrel on at least one of an inside of an exterior case and an outside of the lens barrel, and in a cross section including a tilt axis, a protrusion amount of the first protrusion portions is determined in such a manner that a clearance between the exterior case and the lens barrel is smaller than a clearance between an inner circumferential surface of the dome member and an outer circumferential surface where an outermost lens of the lens barrel is formed.

Image capturing apparatus wherein impact applied to a dome is absorbed based on gap distancing

An image capturing apparatus includes an electronic viewfinder unit that can shift between a retracted state where the electronic viewfinder unit is retracted in a main body portion of the image capturing apparatus and an extended state where the electronic viewfinder unit is extended from the main body portion. The electronic viewfinder unit includes a holding cover that holds a pivoting unit where the pivoting unit can be rotated centering on a pivot shaft, and a pivot latch member that latches in a pivoting unit pivoting operation. The pivoting unit includes an electronic display unit, an eyepiece portion, an eyepiece window to cover the eyepiece portion, and a lens holder to hold a finder lens that guides light emitted from the electronic display unit to the eyepiece portion. When the pivoting unit is being rotated, the pivot latch member regulates shifting of the electronic viewfinder unit to the retracted state.

Image capturing apparatus

An image-capturing apparatus includes a main body and a finder unit configured to transition between a retracted state and a projected state. The finder unit includes a non-rotatable portion provided with a rotation shaft, a rotatable portion that is rotatable around the rotation shaft and has an eyepiece, and a restricting member that restricts a transition from a pulled-out state to the retracted state, the eyepiece has an engaging portion and the restricting member has an engaged portion having a convex shape, the engaging portion and the engaged portion being engaged with each other in a transition between the projected state and the retracted state, and an engagement between the engaging portion and the engaged portion is released when the rotatable portion is rotated in the pulled-out state.

Image-capturing apparatus

An image capturing apparatus includes an electronic viewfinder unit configured to move between a stored state stored in a main body and a projecting state projecting from the main body, wherein the electronic viewfinder unit is held to be able to turn in the projecting state and is held not to be able to turn in the stored state.

An imaging apparatus includes a finder unit including a finder rotation unit movable between two states, a retracted state and a protruded state. The finder rotation unit is rotatably held in the protruded state.

Imaging apparatus

A movable unit of an electronic apparatus is movable between an accommodated position within an apparatus body and a use position projected therefrom. The movable unit popped up by pop-up springs are further popped up by an assist lever and a toggle spring. The toggle spring urges the assist lever in a first arc direction and urges the same in a second arc direction opposite to the first arc direction after passing an inflexion point. The assist lever is brought into contact with a first latching pin when the movable unit reaches an end point of a movement stroke After the movable unit has reached the end point of the movement stroke, the assist lever is brought into contact with the first latching pin to urge the movable unit in the same direction as urged by the pop-up spring.

Electronic apparatus including movable display section

An image pickup apparatus that is capable of positioning and holding a movable part at both a housing position and a projecting position without adding a lock releasing member. The movable part has a latching pin and a slide part. A fixed part holds the movable part slidably between the housing and projecting positions and is fixed to an apparatus body. A first energizing member energizes the movable part in a projecting direction. A lever has an engagement part and a contact part, is energized by a second energizing member, and is held by the fixed part. The movable part is held in the housing position when the latching pin engages with the engagement part. The contact part abuts on the slide part and energizes the movable part in the projecting direction when the movable part is in the projecting position.

Image pickup apparatus having movable part that is movable between retracted position and projecting position

An electronic apparatus includes a main unit, a first display unit, and a second display unit. The first display unit is slidable with respect to the main body unit. When the main body unit and the first display unit are overlapped, the main body unit houses the second display unit in an area where the main body unit and the first display unit are overlapped. The second display unit moves to an area where the first display unit is not existed by a slide of the first display unit with respect to the main body unit and protrudes from an inside of the main body unit.

An electronic apparatus includes an operation member which can be rotated and operated in two directions from a neutral position, a holding member configured to rotatably hold the operation member, a rotation limiting member configured to limit a rotational range of the operation member by abutting the operation member, an elastic member having a first portion which is fixed to the holding member and a second portion which engages with a part of the operation member and configured to elastically deform by rotating the operation member from the neutral position, and an abutment member configured to abut the second portion of the elastic member before the rotation limiting member limits the rotational range of the operation member.

An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a frame member that encloses a periphery of the display unit, a window member that covers a display surface of the display unit, and a cover member including a window holder configured to hold an outer circumference of the window member. The frame member includes a window support configured to support the window member at a position apart from the display surface of the display unit. The window holder of the cover member exposes the window support of the frame member. The window support of the frame member directly supports the window member without intervening the window holder of the cover member.

An electrophotographic image forming apparatus to which a process cartridge is detachably mountable, the process cartridge can be positioned with high accuracy in a simple construction in an apparatus main body. The process cartridge is put on a cartridge tray, and the process cartridge is replaced by a front access. Furthermore, the process cartridge is moved in conjunction with opening/closing operations of a door member so that a photosensitive drum and a transfer belt are brought in contact with each other.

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Hidetoshi Kei