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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. 02, 1990
Filed:
May. 11, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3541451 ;
Abstract
An accessory shoe for mounting an electronic flash device on a camera, which is provided at a top portion of the camera and has a plurality of terminals for circuitry of the camera arrayed in a direction in which the electronic flash device is inserted into the accessory shoe. Of the plurality of terminals, a terminal which leads to an X contact and outputs a signal indicative of a situation of the X contact is located at a position closest to an insertion opening of the accessory shoe and is connected to a terminal on an electronic flash device for inputting the signal at the end of a mounting procedure of the electronic flash device.