Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Tetsuya Hokamura

Takayuki Kawamura

Takashi Koike

Masami Nakagawa

Kazuhiro Nishikawa

Keita Kadowaki

Tsuneharu Nishikura

An object is to realize further size reduction in a lens barrel in which a barrel unit is rotatable in three axis directions. The lens barrel includes a support portion for supporting the barrel unit, a part of the support portion being fixed to an external member, an actuator including a drive base movable in a direction parallel to a surface passing through an optical axis of the barrel unit, and a universal joint mechanism portion for linking the barrel unit and the drive base of the actuator. The support portion supports the barrel unit rotatably about a pitch axis, a roll axis, and a yaw axis with respect to the optical axis direction, and the actuator drives the barrel unit about the pitch axis, the roll axis, and the yaw axis by moving the drive base.

Lens barrel and imaging device

A video printing apparatus feeds sheets of printing media from the lower front portion of the apparatus housing and ejects the print media at the upper front portion of the apparatus housing. The apparatus comprises a feed tray to be loaded with printing media, a feeding unit to feed the printing media into the inside of the apparatus, a transport unit to transport the printing media fed by the feeding unit, a switching unit provided between the feeding unit and the transport unit to switch over the transport route of the printing media, at least one detecting unit provided between the switching unit and the transport unit to detect the printing media, a printing unit to transfer printing onto the printing media, an ejection unit to eject the printing media after they have been printed by the printing unit, and an ejection tray to store the printing media ejected by the ejection unit. The feed tray is positioned at an angle with respect to the apparatus housing such that the printing media are at a downward angle in the direction of transport.

Video printer

An image printer comprising: a printing member for printing dye on a recording medium; a dye medium take-up member for taking up a dye medium to which the dye is applied; a first power transmission member for transmitting power to the dye medium take-up member; a recording medium transporting member for transporting the recording medium; a drive member for driving the dye medium take-up member and the recording medium transporting member, which can be driven forwardly and reversely; a pivotal member which is pivotal in response to rotation of the recording medium transporting member; a second power transmission member for transmitting power from the recording medium transporting member to the first power transmission member, which is mounted on the pivotal member; an urging member for bringing the recording medium transporting member into contact with the pivotal member so as to transmit driving force of the recording medium transporting member to the pivotal member; and a preventive member for selectively preventing the second power transmission member from coming into contact with the first power transmission member.

Image printer

A ribbon cassette for accommodating a length of inked ribbon for use with a thermal wax transfer printer. The cassette includes a generally cylindrical supply casing having a supply slot defined therein so as to extend parallel to a first longitudinal of the supply casing and rotatably accommodating therein a supply spool, a generally cylindrical take-up casing having a take-up slot defined therein so as to extend parallel to a second longitudinal axis of the take-up casing and also to the supply slot and rotatably accommodating therein a take-up spool, a length of inked ribbon having opposite ends engaged with the supply and take-up spools within the supply and take-up casings, respectively. The supply and take-up casings are connected together so as to extend parallel to each other by means of an elongated front plate secured at its opposite end portions to respective front open ends of the supply and take-up casings, and a slender bridge having opposite ends secured to respective rear ends of the supply and take-up casings. The take-up slot is located at a level generally aligned with a plane, containing the first and second longitudinal axes, and opening laterally outwardly so as to confront the supply casing. The supply and take-up slots is so positioned relative to each other as to permit a portion of the length of inked ribbon extending between the supply and take-up slots to extend diagonally upwardly from the supply slot towards the take-up slot.

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Osaka, Japan

Tetsuya Hokamura