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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/22 (2006.01); G02B 7/10 (2006.01); G02B 15/14 (2006.01); G03B 5/00 (2006.01); G03B 17/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 7/10 (2013.01); G02B 7/102 (2013.01); G02B 15/14 (2013.01); G03B 5/00 (2013.01); G03B 17/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
A lens barrel includes a barrel body, an optical system disposed inside the barrel body, a zoom motor, a focus motor, a zoom lever switch disposed on the outer circumference of the barrel body and configured to transmit a user's operation instruction to the zoom motor, and a focus lever switch disposed on the outer circumference of the barrel body and configured to transmit a user's operation instruction to the focus motor. The zoom lever switch and the focus lever switch are arranged in a region formed of first and fourth quadrants of the lens barrel.