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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 1997

Filed:

Oct. 19, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:

Minoru Ishiguro, Saitama-ken, JP;

Jun'ichi Iwamoto, Saitama-ken, JP;

Assignee:

Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd., Saitama-ken, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396 86 ; 396 87 ;
Abstract

A drive control apparatus of lens housing for camera, comprises a camera body, a lens housing, a drive unit, signal generating means and a control unit. The position detection of the lens housing is carried out only at a single reference position, and in each processing for moving the lens housing, the control for moving the lens housing to a first, second or third position is carried out based upon this single reference position after the lens housing is once moved to the reference position to execute position detection. According to the drive control apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to achieve a possibility of occurrence of detection error which is lower than those with conventional one requiring the position detection at at least three positions.


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