Lens barrel and imaging apparatus

Details Lens barrel and imaging apparatus Lens barrel and imaging apparatus

2007-12-18

2007-12-18

Perkey, W. B. (Department: 2862)

Photography

Folding or collapsible camera

Having axially moving lens

C359S703000

Reexamination Certificate

active

11099674

ABSTRACT:
A lens barrel including a base and a collapsible barrel provided so as to collapse into and expand out of the base, the barrel including a lens constituting an image-capturing optical system for introducing an image of an object, a lens frame for holding the lens, and an operational unit provided in the lens frame for performing an operation relating to image capture based on a control signal supplied thereto, the lens barrel including a flexible substrate provided within the lens barrel for supplying the control signal from an electric circuit provided outside the barrel to the operational unit; wherein the flexible substrate has a first interconnect section to which the control signal is supplied; and a second interconnect section provided separately from the first interconnect section and having an end connected onto the lens frame and another end electrically connected to a ground potential.

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patent: 2003/0184880 (2003-10-01), Kawanabe
patent: 2004/0067054 (2004-04-01), Ichikawa et al.
patent: 2002-357757 (2002-12-01), None
patent: 2002357757 (2002-12-01), None
patent: 2003-315888 (2003-11-01), None
EPO Search Report mailed Apr. 27, 2005.

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