1993-07-06
1995-01-24
Gellner, Michael L.
G03B 1712
Patent
active
053846141
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed in a lens installing/removing apparatus for installing and removing a photographing lens including at least impingement surfaces and bayonet pawls or threads to and from a camera body, the apparatus comprising: a fixed mount unit, having an impingement surface which impinges on the impingement surface of the photographing lens, for placing the photographing lens in a predetermined position in the optical axis direction with respect to the camera body; a movable mount unit, so supported inwardly of the fixed mount unit as to be rotatable about the optical axis and having bayonet pawls or threads which engage with the bayonet pawls or the threads, for taking an installing position to install the photographing lens in the camera body and a removing position to remove the photographing lens from the camera body; and a driving means for rotationally driving the movable mount unit.
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Gellner Michael L.
Nikon Corporation
Tuccillo Nicholas J.
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