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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2007
Applicants:
Hiroaki Imagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Keita Takahashi, Sagamihara, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroaki Imagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Keita Takahashi, Sagamihara, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Imaging Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A lens barrel of the present invention is of a retractable type. After one frame is retreated from a photographing optical path, another frame moves in an optical axis direction to a position where the one frame has been disposed. The one frame is, for example, a lens frame, and the other frame is, for example, a shutter frame. The present invention can be understood as the invention of a method of switching the lens barrel to a stored state (a retracted state).