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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. 19, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428 369 ; 428 3691 ; 359694 ; 359700 ; 359819 ; 359823 ; 411307 ; 411308 ; 411312 ;
Abstract
An inner barrel includes a male helicoid, and an outer barrel includes a female helicoid which can engage with the male helicoid of the inner barrel. The included angle of trapezoidal threads of the male helicoid are identical to an included angle of trapezoidal grooves of the female helicoid in a section perpendicular to a direction of an extension of the threads.