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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:
May. 28, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3541491 ; 3541451 ; 35414911 ;
Abstract
A flash device for a camera comprises a plurality of flash light emitting portions having different flash illumination angles. A single common electric charge storage supplies energy to each of the flash light emitting portions. Each of a plurality of triggers corresponds to one of flash light emitting portions. In response to the focal length of a taking lens disposed in the camera, a controller determines which of a plurality of the flash light emitting portions to be fired and trigger the appropriate trigger corresponding to the flash light emitting portion to be fired.