Camera

Details Camera Camera

2007-10-18

2010-12-14

Fuller, Rodney E (Department: 2862)

Photography

Camera detail

Body structure or housing

C396S540000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07853143

ABSTRACT:
A camera has an outer case member and a lens barrel unit having a movable lens movable along a straight line. The relation between the shape of the outer case member and the layout of the lens barrel unit is such that when the camera falls in the same direction as the straight line to contact with a flat surface for the first time, the camera contacts the flat surface at a portion other than directly below the center of gravity. Examples of the camera disclosed include a camera having the lens barrel unit disposed tilted in the outer case member, a camera whose outer case member has a wedge-like shape, and a camera having a projection formed at the outer case member.

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