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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1998
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A camera has at least one motor, a spindle gear (i.e. a gear having a spindle) for rewinding and thrusting a film, a cam that rotates together with the spindle gear when the spindle gear is rotated in a film-rewinding direction and that remains at rest when the spindle gear is rotated in a film-thrusting direction, a direction-limiting mechanism for permitting the spindle gear to rotate in the film-rewinding direction only when the motor is rotating in a forward direction, and a transmission mechanism that comes into contact with the cam when the motor is rotating in a reverse direction and that, when the cam is in one of predetermined rotation positions, engages with and thereby transmits a driving force of the motor to a corresponding one of driven members provided one for each of the predetermined rotation positions. In this camera, paths for transmitting the driving force of the motor are switched by first rotating the spindle gear in the film-rewinding direction to bring the cam into one of the predetermined rotation positions and then reversing a rotation direction of the motor.