Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryoji Okuno

Hidetoshi Kei

Keita Iwai

Makoto Miyawaki

Jiro Yamamoto

Shingo Iwatani

Yasuhiro Toyoda

Harushige Yamamoto

Hideki Kawashima

Minoru Tanabe

Yasuhiro Morishita

Yuu Kobayashi

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 sheet storage cassette which contains a print sheet in roll form and is attached to a printing apparatus, comprises: a shaft which retaining the print sheet in roll form; and a support portion rotatably supporting the shaft, wherein an urging member protrudes from a maximum outer diameter of the shaft while the print sheet is not attached to the shaft, and urges the inner surface of a hollow portion of the print sheet while the print sheet is attached to the shaft, and a rib portion which continuously extends in a rotational direction and contacts a pickup guide, when the urging member rotates, the rib portion is provided to prevent the pickup guide from interfering with the urging member which rotates together with the shaft.

Sheet storage cassette and printing apparatus

A printer is provided that includes a conveyance unit configured to nip and simultaneously convey the roll recording medium; a print unit configured to print an image by sequentially transferring a plurality of color inks on the recording medium while nipping the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit; a decurling unit disposed between the conveyance unit and the print unit, and configured to include a raised portion that decurls the recording medium by contacting the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit; and a control unit configured to control the conveyance unit to convey the recording medium to a waiting position after ending the transfer of one color ink, wherein the waiting position is a position where an area on a leading edge side of the recording medium is in contact with the raised portion.

Printer and printing method which prevents a decurling unit from deteriorating a print quality

Ink ribbon cassette for printer

A film transport device includes a spool arranged to take up and wind thereon a film pulled out from a film cartridge, a motor disposed within the spool, a spool gear arranged to have an output of the motor transmitted thereto and to drive the spool, the spool gear being arranged to be coaxial with the spool and to drive the spool only by the rotation in one direction thereof, and a film cartridge driving mechanism arranged to transmit the output of the motor to a film cartridge through the spool gear.

Film transport device and camera

An apparatus having a film-cartridge-ID confirming funtion which is adapted to a film cartridge with an information recording portion includes a reading device that reads ID information for identifying the film cartridge from the information recording portion, an input device that inputs information from the outside, and an operation control device that performs an operation corresponding to whether or not the ID information read by the reading device and the information input to the input device is in a predetermined relationship.

Apparatus having a film-cartridge-ID confirming function

A camera for use with a film cartridge includes: an identification device for assigning individual identification information to a film cartridge loaded in the camera; a device for recording the individual identification information assigned by the identification device on one of the film cartridge and the film accommodated in the film cartridge; a device for storing the individual identification information and film use history information of the film accommodated in the film cartridge, such that the film use history information is identifiable based on the individual identification information; a device for detecting the individual identification information recorded on at least one of the film cartridge loaded in the camera and the film accommodated in the film cartridge; a device for reading out from the storage device film use history information corresponding to the individual identification information detected by the detecting device; and a device for controlling operation of the camera in accordance with the film use history information read out from the storing device by the reading device.

Camera and apparatus adapted to use a film cartridge

A power transmission device comprises a spool gear disposed at a film take-up spool and an output gear that outputs a driving force that has been transmitted to the spool gear. The spool gear acts both to drive a take-up spool in the course of film winding and to furnish power applied thereto in the course of film rewinding to a fork gear associated with a film cartridge.

Power transmission device wherein a film take-up spool gear also partakes in film rewinding

A film cartridge loading apparatus adapted to a camera, including (a) a slidable cover for film cartridge loading and (b) a motor for driving the cover.

Cartridge loading apparatus for a camera

An apparatus including a switching device for switching a power transmission system between first and second states. A holding device holds the switching device at least in the first or the second state. The holding device utilizes an operation device for operating an optical device. An apparatus also for use with a performing device for performing an action relating to at least one of loading and unloading actions of an image recording medium and to a moving device for moving the medium. The latter apparatus includes a transmitting device for transmitting a driving force to the performing device and moving device and a switching device for switching the destination of the driving force.

Apparatus having a power switch controlled by an operating device of an

A camera comprises a cartridge chamber for loading therein an image recording medium cartridge, an image recording medium accommodating chamber for accommodating therein an image recording medium sent out from the image recording medium cartridge, a lens barrel constituting a part of at least one wall of a wall constituting the cartridge chamber and a wall constituting the image recording medium accommodating chamber, and a positioning portion, molded integrally with a camera body, for positioning the image recording medium at a photo-taking aperture position.

Camera

A camera adapted to use an image recording medium cartridge having a cover for allowing an image recording medium to exit from or withdraw into the image recording medium cartridge. The camera includes operation unit for performing an operation related to at least one of loading and unloading of the cartridge with respect to the camera. A determination unit determines an operation state of the operation unit in accordance with a time.

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Yokohama, Japan

Ryoji Okuno