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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1996
Satoshi Ejima, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Inoue, Yokohama, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus comprising imaging devices for converting the light of a subject into electric signals, an image forming device for forming an image of the light of the subject on the imaging devices and a connecting device for connecting the image forming device to the imaging devices. In the imaging apparatus, the connecting device has at least three pins so inserted in holes bored in either the imaging devices or the image forming device as to be vertically movable and a biasing device for making the pins contact with a confronting surface of the image device or the image forming device. Heads of the pins are formed in configuration adaptive to point-contact with the confronting surface. The hole is bonded to the pin, and the pin is bonded to the confronting surface, respectively.