Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lens barrel and image pickup apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 镜筒和摄像装置
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Application No.: US12292993Application Date: 2008-12-02
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Publication No.: US07751126B2Publication Date: 2010-07-06
- Inventor: Satoshi Shirakata
- Applicant: Satoshi Shirakata
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC
- Priority: JP2008-009819 20080118
- Main IPC: G02B15/14
- IPC: G02B15/14

Abstract:
An addendum of a gear portion and a tip end of a first cam follower are located on similar-diameter cylindrical planes centering at a center axis of a cam ring. A gear housing recess is provided in an inner peripheral surface of a fixed ring. A bottom surface of a first-cam-ring-movement cam groove engaging with the first cam follower, and a bottom surface of the recess are located on similar-diameter cylindrical planes centering at a center axis of the fixed ring. A release portion is provided at the inner peripheral surface of the fixed ring to provide communication between a protruding position cam groove portion of the first-cam-ring-movement cam groove and the recess. At the protruding position of the cam ring, a portion of the gear portion near the first cam follower passes through the release portion and is located inside the protruding position cam groove portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090185286A1 Lens barrel and image pickup apparatus Public/Granted day:2009-07-23
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