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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2019
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Taku Ichikawa, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A lens barrelcomprises a first lens group framea rotating shafta plurality of barrier vanestoan annular barrier sliding frameand an annular stationary frameThe plurality of barrier vanestorotate around the rotating shaftand switch between an open state of exposing the surface of a first lens Lin an imaging state, and a closed state of covering the surface of the first lens Lin a collapsed state. The annular barrier sliding frameis disposed on the subject side of the first lens group frameand rotates the plurality of barrier vanestoupon rotating relatively around the optical axis with respect to the first lens group frameThe stationary frameis disposed between the plurality of barrier vanestoand the barrier sliding frameand fixed with respect to the first lens group frameand supports the plurality of barrier vanesa tofrom the opposite side from the subject.