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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
May. 01, 1996
Katsumi Motomura, Saitama, JP;
Keiji Uchiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuyuki Kameyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Imamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuyoshi Mochida, Tokyo, JP;
Yukitsugu Hata, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Takagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A lens-fitted photo film unit has an electronic flash device with a flash circuit board. The flash device includes a flash-emitting section for emitting flash light toward a photographic field, and a main capacitor for storing charge to be discharged in the flash-emitting section. The flash-emitting section and main capacitor together constitute a flasher/capacitor unit. In one embodiment, a detachable connector, providing both the electrical connection and the mechanical support, connects the flasher/capacitor unit to the flash circuit board. In another embodiment, a securing portion comprising a pair of rails disposed on the flasher/capacitor unit, secures the flasher/capacitor unit to the flash circuit board, where the rails ride along opposite sides of a projecting portion of the flash circuit board.