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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. 12, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3541491 ; 35414911 ;
Abstract
A camera having a pentagonal prism including a flash light emitting portion above the pentagonal prism and a driving force generator for generating a driving force to move the flash light emitting portion located beside the pentagonal prism. The driving force is transmitted to the flash light emitting portion by driving force transmitting means for moving the flash light emitting portion to change flash coverage.