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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ryoji Okuno, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 1/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 1/12 ;
Abstract
A film transport device includes a spool arranged to take up and wind thereon a film pulled out from a film cartridge, a motor disposed within the spool, a spool gear arranged to have an output of the motor transmitted thereto and to drive the spool, the spool gear being arranged to be coaxial with the spool and to drive the spool only by the rotation in one direction thereof, and a film cartridge driving mechanism arranged to transmit the output of the motor to a film cartridge through the spool gear.