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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:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toru Ito, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd., Saitama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396349 ; 396448 ;
Abstract
A camera includes a camera body and a retractable lens barrel. A lens barrier opens and closes the outlet for the lens barrel. A stopper is disposed slidable in the optical axis direction of the lens barrel. The stopper moves forward to lock the lens barrier when the lens barrel is moved forward, and moves backward to release the lens barrier when the lens barrel is moved backward.