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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tadanori Okada, Tochigi, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lens barrel including: a base lens barrel; and a lens holding frame configured to hold a lens and be movably held in an optical axis direction relative to the base lens barrel, in which the base lens barrel has a first contact surface, and the lens holding frame has a second contact surface, in which the first contact surface and the second contact surface abut on each other in an image pickup state and separate from each other in the optical axis direction in a retracted state, in which the lens barrel includes a biasing member configured to bias the base lens barrel and the lens holding frame in a different direction from the optical axis direction such that the first contact surface and the second contact surface abut on each other.