Patent
1978-05-04
1979-10-30
Griffin, Donald A.
G03B 1912
Patent
active
041726480
ABSTRACT:
A mirror mechanism for use in a single-lens reflex camera comprises a mirror descent mechanism having a support member rotatably supported and formed integrally with said mirror, said support member being adapted to cooperate with said mirror drive mechanism at the photograph-taking operation to displace said mirror from said image-viewing position to said photograph-taking position, a mirror pin provided on said support member and adapted to rotate integrally with said support member, a pin fixed on the camera body, and a suspended spring member which is rotatably supported at the ends thereof respectively by said mirror pin and said fixed pin, and which is charged, upon rotation of said mirror from said image-viewing position to said photograph-taking position, to develop a returning force for rotating said mirror in a direction opposite to said rotation from said photograph-taking position to said image-viewing position.
The center of said mirror pin when said mirror is in the photograph-taking position being positioned within an area defined between a line connecting the center of rotation of said support member and the center of said mirror pin when said mirror is in the image-viewing position and a line connecting said center of rotation of support member and the center of fixed pin whereby the descending torque of mirror resulting force of said spring member increases in the initial phase of rotation of mirror from the image-viewing position to the photograph-taking position and decreases in the latter phase of said rotation.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3221626 (1965-12-01), Fuketa
patent: 3646868 (1972-03-01), Sekida
patent: 3731609 (1973-05-01), Kobayashi et al.
Griffin Donald A.
Nippon Kogaku K.K.
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