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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024
Filed:
May. 10, 2021
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Uemura, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuhiro Izumi, Kanagawa, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lens barrel and an image pickup apparatus that can be downsized and have a high degree of freedom in design is provided. The lens barrel includes a fixed barrel, a guide barrel fixed to the fixed barrel, a cam barrel rotatably supported by the guide barrel, a driver that is supported by the fixed barrel and drives the cam barrel, and a deceleration mechanism that is disposed so as to connect the driver and the cam barrel and decelerates rotation from the driver to transmit the rotation to the cam barrel. The driver is disposed inside the cam barrel. At least part of the deceleration mechanism is disposed so as to overlap the cam barrel when viewed from a direction of an optical axis of an image pickup optical system.