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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kanehiro Tada, Tokyo, JP;
Eiji Ohshima, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359823 ; 359694 ; 359696 ;
Abstract
A lens barrel is composed of a shaft located in a lens barrel parallel to the optical axis thereof, a movable lens frame installed in the lens barrel having a bearing to receive the shaft and holding a lens therein to be moved therewith along the direction of the optical axis via the bearing and the shaft, and a cantilever made from a elastic material of which one end is fixed to the bearing and another end is pressed to the shaft, the cantilever being extended along the direction of the optical axis. The cantilever may be a flat spring formed of synthetic resin.