Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Camera body and imaging apparatus including an unlocking mechanism
- Patent Title (中): 相机主体和包括解锁机构的成像设备
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Application No.: US12938753Application Date: 2010-11-03
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Publication No.: US08638390B2Publication Date: 2014-01-28
- Inventor: Junichi Shinohara , Ryota Kaga , Takashi Tada , Shu Kambe
- Applicant: Junichi Shinohara , Ryota Kaga , Takashi Tada , Shu Kambe
- 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: JP2009-255924 20091109
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225

Abstract:
A camera body to which an image pickup unit including an optical system, an image pickup device, and an image-pickup-unit connector is detachably attached, includes a recess to which the image pickup unit is freely detachably attached and which includes a back wall, an upper wall, and a side wall to be opened on a lower side, a lateral side, and a front side of the camera body. The back wall faces a rear of the image pickup unit, the upper wall is located on an upper side of the camera body in a normal use state. The camera body includes a locking mechanism to control a movement of the image pickup unit placed in the recess in a direction in which the image pickup unit moves away from the side wall, a first unlocking mechanism provided to be exposed from the camera body and configured to unlock a locked state made by the locking mechanism in response to an unlocking manipulation, and a second unlocking mechanism provided to be enclosed inside the camera body and configured to unlock the locked state made by the locking mechanism in response to an unlocking manipulation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110109790A1 CAMERA BODY AND IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-05-12
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