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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1994
Filed:
May. 14, 1992
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A camera includes a flash unit as a built-in unit. The camera includes a motor disposed in a camera body, a moving mechanism for causing the flash unit to move from a non-projected position to a projected position, an illumination-angle switching mechanism for varying an illumination angle of the flash unit, the illumination-angle switching mechanism being driven by means of a rotation of the motor in one direction and being capable of stopping in any one of a plurality of specific illumination angle states, and an engagement mechanism arranged to engage to hold the flash unit at the non-projected position, the engagement mechanism being arranged to engage when the illumination-angle switching mechanism is stopped in any one of the plurality of specific illumination angle states, and to be disengaged by means of the rotation of the motor in the aforesaid one direction.