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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2000
Mitsuo Soumi, Asaka, JP;
Takahisa Kawando, Asaka, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A lever member integrated with a barrier member is rotatably and tiltably supported about a pin which is equivalent to a rotary shaft of a gear member, and a pin secured to the gear member is loosely attached to the lever member. The movement of the tiltable barrier member is regulated by guide rails in contact with the reverse of the barrier member and guide rails formed at the reverse side of a front cover in such a way as to contact with the obverse of the barrier member. A lens peripheral part has a spherical surface whose center is on a lens optical axis. Each guide rail is formed along the spherical surface. A driving force of a motor is transmitted to the gear member to rotate and move the barrier member on the spherical surface to thereby withdraw the barrier member into a space (open position) beside the taking lens and behind the closed position.