Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lens barrel, camera and mobile information terminal
- Patent Title (中): 镜筒,相机和移动信息终端
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Application No.: US11913266Application Date: 2006-10-17
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Publication No.: US07864241B2Publication Date: 2011-01-04
- Inventor: Tetsuya Iwasaki
- Applicant: Tetsuya Iwasaki
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2005-303744 20051018
- International Application: PCT/JP2006/320999 WO 20061017
- International Announcement: WO2007/046521 WO 20070426
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; G02B7/16 ; G02B15/00 ; G03B17/00 ; G03B17/14

Abstract:
A lens barrel includes: a lens frame retaining at least one portion of the plurality of lens groups; a first lens cylinder supporting the lens frame inside thereof and including a plurality of cam followers on an outer circumferential section thereof; and a second lens cylinder including a mutually parallel plurality of cam grooves in an inner circumferential section thereof and storing the first lens cylinder therein in the collapsed state, the plurality of cam grooves are engaged with the plurality of cam followers and configured to advance and retire the first lens cylinder in a direction of an optical axis by a relative rotation of the first lens cylinder, the plurality of cam grooves have a first cam grooves and a second cam grooves, the plurality of cam followers have a first cam follower and a second cam follower, the first cam follower and the second cam follower are engaged with the first cam grooves and the second cam grooves, respectively, and the first cam follower and the second cam follower are disposed in positions mutually different relative to the direction of the optical axis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090066829A1 LENS BARREL, CAMERA AND MOBILE INFORMATION TERMINAL Public/Granted day:2009-03-12
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