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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:
Aug. 16, 1988
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Makoto Ando, Sakai, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350255 ;
Abstract
A lens barrel has a lens barrel body, a movable lens unit accommodated in the lens barrel body and movable in a direction of an optical axis, a moving operational mechanism for moving the movable lens unit and a handling load change mechanism provided between the lens barrel body and the moving operational mechanism. The handling load change mechanism includes a moving operational member sliding contact portion and a lens barrel sliding contact portion which support handling loads through a fluid lubricant and a change operational member for changing the area of mutual contact by relative motion between the sliding portion.