Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.

Fujinon Corporation

Yukio Okazaki

Haruo Onozuka

Minoru Ishiguro

Nobuyuki Kameyama

Yasuhiko Tanaka

Tatsuo Saito

Katsuji Ozawa

Takao Umetsu

Muneyoshi Sato

Tuyoshi Masaoka

A driving apparatus comprises: an electro-mechanical conversion element; a driving member that drives backwards and forwards in a straight line in response to extension and contraction of the electro-mechanical conversion element which are brought about by a drive signal being supplied thereto; a driven member, frictionally engaged with the driving member, that moves backwards and forwards in a straight line along the driving member by driving the driving member; and a drive control unit that divides a whole traveling area of one or both of an outgoing traveling path and an incoming traveling path of the driven member into a plurality of divided areas and supplies different drive signals to the divided areas so as to implement a drive control.

Driving apparatus

A flexible circuit board has a magnetic head interface IC soldered on a tongue-shaped portion, which is folded such that the magnetic head interface IC is put inside. A front and a rear side of the magnetic head interface IC is covered with shield patterns. After exposure, the magnetic head interface IC drives the magnetic head to record some information of photography to a recording area in a photo film. When an film cartridge is loaded, the information in the recording area is read out for finding an unexposed frame. In recording and reading, the shield patterns absorb magnetic waves generated nearby the magnetic head interface IC, so that recording and reading signals are not interfered.

Flexible circuit board

A battery operated camera having a zoom lens in which film advance is controlled by counting pulse signals generated by film perforations and a first film frame is automatically placed in an exposure aperture when the film is loaded. The camera is set to an initial operation mode upon the battery being replaced. The initial operation mode is cleared in cooperation with shutter release when the camera is in the initial operation mode, so as to avoid an advance of several frames upon replacing the batter. A switch is provided in association with the lens barrier, and conditions of the switch are read upon replacing the battery so as to retract the zoom lens when a switch condition indicating that the lens barrier is closed is read or to extend the zoom lens when a switch condition indicating that the lens barrier is open is read. A data recording unit is provided and consists of liquid crystal segments for forming digits to be recorded, the liquid crystal segments being controlled to make all the segments visible for a predetermined time period upon loading of a new battery.

Photographic camera

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Saitama, Japan

Yukio Okazaki