Kyocera Corporation

Kazuo Ishikawa

Masao Tsujimura

Toshikatsu Atsuta

Takayuki Kubodera

Takayoshi Morooka

Mamoru Akiyama

Hirotaka Shiroshita

Eiichi Mochizuki

Seiji Yoshikawa

Nobuaki Murai

Masaki Noda

Masamichi Hirooka

Naohiro Hisamoto

The present invention relates to a lens mount assembly for use in photographic camera, video camera and other various optical instruments. Usually, electric drive units for focussing and zooming, respectively, are gear-coupled to such lens mount assembly and drive torque from these drive units often causes deviation, deflection and eccentricity of the lens mount assembly, and additionally causes unreliable gear-coupling of the drive units and deteriorated image forming capability of the optical systems. The present invention provides a barrel supporting mechanism adapted to slidably support a front section of the lens mount assembly in order to overcome these problems. The present invention further provides the lens mount assembly with a simplified dust-proof mechanism utilizing a floating ring.

Lens mount assembly

An autofocus camera has a photographing lens, a shutter normally urged in a shutter opening direction and arranged to be opened and closed after it has once been closed prior to a photographing operation, a mirror movable between a view position which allows light passing through the lens and the shutter to be transmitted to a viewfinder optical system and an exposure position which allows light passing through the photographing lens and the shutter to be transmitted to the surface of a film, and an automatic focus adjustment apparatus for automatically adjusting the position of the lens. The autofocus camera has a motor-drive control circuit arranged to close the shutter prior to a photographing operation, move the mirror from the view position to the exposure position, cause the shutter to be opened and closed for exposure of the film, cause the film to be wound immediately after completion of the operation of the shutter, move the mirror from the exposure position to the view position, cause the shutter to be opened after the winding of the film has temporarily been stopped, and restart the winding of the film.

Autofocus camera having automatic focus adjustment apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuo Ishikawa