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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2012
Makoto Iikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Niwa, Saitama, JP;
Yuji Kogure, Saitama, JP;
Takahiro Kobayashi, Saitama, JP;
Masahiro Inazuka, Saitama, JP;
Ichiro Taguchi, Saitama, JP;
Kosei Kosako, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Iikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Niwa, Saitama, JP;
Yuji Kogure, Saitama, JP;
Takahiro Kobayashi, Saitama, JP;
Masahiro Inazuka, Saitama, JP;
Ichiro Taguchi, Saitama, JP;
Kosei Kosako, Tokyo, JP;
RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A camera body includes body-side bayonet lugs concentric with lens-side bayonet lugs, circular-arc openings, a circular arc protrusion positioned inside the camera body and projecting forward and concentric with the body-side bayonet lugs, body-side contact portions provided and arranged on the front end surface of the circular arc protrusion and come into contact with lens-side contact portions which are provided on the lens barrel, and rearward biasers provided immediately behind two of the body-side bayonet lugs to bias and move the lens-side bayonet lugs rearward, wherein two of the body-side contact portions located at both ends in the lengthwise direction and the two rearward biasers lie on radial-direction extension lines of the circular arc protrusion, respectively, as viewed in an optical axis direction.