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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1977
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Thomas Hochreiter, Rochester, NY (US);
Fredric Alton Mindler, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354135 ; 354207 ;
Abstract
A camera having a self cocking shutter with a shutter actuating member for initiating exposures and a piezo-electric flash device with a flash firing spring that is cocked in concert with film advance, includes a double exposure prevention latch that disables the shutter actuating member when the flash firing spring is not cocked.