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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 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 a body-side bayonet lug, wherein a lens-side bayonet lug of a lens barrel is positioned immediately behind the body-side bayonet lug when the lens barrel is mounted to the camera body; an opposed surface formed on the rear surface of the body-side bayonet lug and positioned immediately in front of the lens-side bayonet lug; a body-side mount surface positioned in front of the opposed surface and with which the lens-side bayonet surface comes into contact; and a body-side contact portion, the front end of which contacts the rear end of the lens-side contact portion when the opposed surface faces the lens-side bayonet lug, the front end of the body-side contact portion being positioned in front of the opposed surface and behind the body-side mount surface.