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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:
Dec. 02, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ichiro Taguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396175 ; 396176 ; 396177 ;
Abstract
A lens shutter type of camera with a retractable strobe device has a rectangular camera body with one side longer than the other. A mechanism pops the retractable strobe out from the shorter side of the camera body to an operative position. A mechanism varies an illuminating angle of the retractable strobe device in accordance with a zooming operation of a zoom photographing lens when the strobe device is in the operative position. The popping out mechanism and the illuminating angle varying mechanism are arranged such that the retractable strobe device pops out from the shorter side surface of the camera.