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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:
Mar. 28, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354413 ; 354132 ; 362 17 ; 362 13 ; 3152 / ;
Abstract
A close-range lighting flash device comprising an electronic flash unit including a plurality of xenon tubes, an illuminator unit provided integrally in the flash unit and including a plurality of illuminator lamps, a light-transmitting panel arranged in front of both of the xenon tubes and the illuminator lamps, and a control device for energizing the illuminator unit. The light-transmitting panel has first and second portions aligned respectively with the xenon tubes and the illuminator lamps, the second portions having a light diffusing density smaller than that of the first portions.