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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:
Jul. 21, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akira Satoh, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359700 ; 359701 ;
Abstract
A mechanism for the eye contact element of an optical device in which a cylindrical eye contact element is slidably engaged with an eyepiece holding barrel containing an eyepiece therein has a guide mechanism for shifting the eye contact element in the direction of the optical axis of the eyepiece with the rotation of the eye contact element about the optical axis when the eye contact element is rotatively operated, and a holding mechanism for holding the eye contact element at any shifted position.