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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2003
Kaoru Hoshide, Tokyo, JP;
Minoru Kouchi, Tokyo, JP;
Kentaro Eto, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Ogata, Tokyo, JP;
THK Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a lens mounting mechanism, by rotating a ring member through touching lugs of the ring member and aligning grooves of a base member and recesses of the ring member in the circumferential direction, and then inserting a lens barrel into a hole portion, the lens barrel is moved to the hole portion without being interfered by projections of a barrel mounting member, so that the lens barrel can be inserted into the hole portion until a flange portion abuts against an opening end surface. Then, by touching the lugs of the ring member and rotating the ring member to displace the recesses from the grooves of the base member in the circumference direction, the projection of the barrel mounting member is locked by the ring member and the barrel mounting member is fixed to the base member, so that the lens barrel can be mounted to the apparatus body.