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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2015
Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha, Chichibu-shi, JP;
Takahito Yoshizawa, Kawaguchi, JP;
Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha, Chichibu-shi, JP;
Abstract
A light-quantity control apparatus includes multiple light-quantity control blades each configured to overlap with at least another one of the light-quantity control blades so as to form a light-passing aperture and each configured to rotate to change a size of the light-passing aperture. Each of the multiple light-quantity control blades includes a thick portion and a thin portion. The thick portion forms an outer end portion on an opposite side to the light-passing aperture in a rotation direction of the light-quantity control blade. The thin portion is formed in an aperture side blade area that overlaps with the at least another one of the multiple light-quantity control blades so as to form part of a circular overlap of the multiple light-quantity control blades and that includes an inner edge forming an edge of the light-passing aperture.