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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:
Jun. 25, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Neal Chaves, Newmarket, NH (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3152 / ; 3152 / ; 354147 ;
Abstract
A device for controlling the firing of one or more electronic flash units by a leaf type camera shutter. Flash synchonization is provided by switch selectible modes at shutter opening, at shutter closing, or with a plurality of electronic flash units, at both shutter opening and shutter closing. The flash fire control system for leaf shutter cameras makes possible a wide variety of photographic lighting effects and can be incorporated in a shutter mechanism, camera body, electronic flash unit or flash remote controller or configured as a self-contained accessory device.