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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Satoshi Okuno, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/514 ; G02B 7/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/514 ; G02B 7/02 ;
Abstract
The invention is aimed to miniaturize an angle adjustment mechanism of a mirror barrel and simplify the structure thereof. A ball joint mechanism in which a spherical portion provided to the base end of a mirror barrel is joined to a spherical portion support table provided to a main chassis by a joint ring is constructed, and the rotation of the mirror barrel in three axial directions around the center of the spherical portion can be performed.