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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6970304 | Lens driving mechanism and image capture apparatus This prevents biting and miniaturizes an entire mechanism. There is provided a lens driver including: a driver having a frame that holds a lens and a bearing for receiving a guiding axis to move the lens in an optical axis direction, a lead screw in which a screw to... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970301 | Lens driving mechanism and image capture apparatus This prevents biting and miniaturizes an entire mechanism. There is provided a lens driver including: a driver having a frame that holds a lens and a bearing for receiving a guiding axis to move the lens in an optical axis direction, a lead screw in which a screw to... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970305 | Lens barrel A lock pin is inserted into a hole of a lens holding frame in order to lock a blur correction lens when blur correction is not executed. An optical axis of the blur correction lens and an optical axis of a photographic optical system match when the blur correction l... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970299 | Lens driving mechanism and image capture apparatus This prevents biting and miniaturizes an entire mechanism. There is provided a lens driver including: a driver having a frame that holds a lens and a bearing for receiving a guiding axis to move the lens in an optical axis direction, a lead screw in which a screw to... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970302 | Lens driving mechanism and image capture apparatus This prevents biting and miniaturizes an entire mechanism. There is provided a lens driver including: a driver having a frame that holds a lens and a bearing for receiving a guiding axis to move the lens in an optical axis direction, a lead screw in which a screw to... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967787 | Lens driving mechanism and image capture apparatus This prevents biting and miniaturizes an entire mechanism. There is provided a lens driver including: a driver having a frame that holds a lens and a bearing for receiving a guiding axis to move the lens in an optical axis direction, a lead screw in which a screw to... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967786 | Lens driving mechanism and image capture apparatus This prevents biting and miniaturizes an entire mechanism. There is provided a lens driver including: a driver having a frame that holds a lens and a bearing for receiving a guiding axis to move the lens in an optical axis direction, a lead screw in which a screw to... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967785 | Lens driving mechanism and image capture apparatus This prevents biting and miniaturizes an entire mechanism. There is provided a lens driver including: a driver having a frame that holds a lens and a bearing for receiving a guiding axis to move the lens in an optical axis direction, a lead screw in which a screw to... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967788 | Lens driving mechanism and image capture apparatus This prevents biting and miniaturizes an entire mechanism. There is provided a lens driver including: a driver having a frame that holds a lens and a bearing for receiving a guiding axis to move the lens in an optical axis direction, a lead screw in which a screw to... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967793 | Lens assembly with externally adjustable lens spacing, and method for its assembly A lens assembly includes a housing having a housing body, a cylindrical bore in the housing body with an internal bore surface and a cylindrical housing axis, at least one access window through the housing body that permits external access to an interior of the hous... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967789 | Lens driving mechanism and image capture apparatus This prevents biting and miniaturizes an entire mechanism. There is provided a lens driver including: a driver having a frame that holds a lens and a bearing for receiving a guiding axis to move the lens in an optical axis direction, a lead screw in which a screw to... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965821 | Tilt in reverse mirror A system and method are provided for selectively tilting side mirrors located on the driver and passenger sides of a vehicle. The system has a mirror selection switch with a driver position and a passenger position. A control module receives a mirror selection signa... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6954313 | Optical apparatus and lens apparatus An optical apparatus is disclosed with which the correspondence between the movement of a movable lens and the position of an operating member can be maintained and the operability can be improved. The optical apparatus comprises a lens drive unit which drives a mov... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6950244 | Lens driving mechanism and image capture apparatus This prevents biting and miniaturizes an entire mechanism. There is provided a lens driver including: a driver having a frame that holds a lens and a bearing for receiving a guiding axis to move the lens in an optical axis direction, a lead screw in which a screw to... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947092 | Optical device This invention provides a lens device to be mounted on a television camera and capable of executing appropriate process even when it is used in combination with the cameras of different characteristics. The lens device has an interface circuit of which characteristi... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943963 | Collapsible lens barrel When a wheel is rotated, first inclined portions of end surface cams provided on the wheel push corresponding cam followers formed on a movable cylinder. Accordingly, the movable cylinder holding a photographing lens is extended. Then, when each of the cam followers... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940658 | Step-zoom lens A step-zoom lens includes two movable lens groups; a lens group support unit; and a cam ring having a cam groove. The cam groove includes a finite number of focal-length steps, so as to perform a focusing operation between infinite and closest photographing position... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937394 | Device and method for changing the stress-induced birefringence and/or the thickness of an optical component A device serves the purpose of changing the stress-induced birefringence and/or the thickness (d and D, respectively) of an optical component by elastic deformation caused by means of stress. The optical component is gripped on a circumference, arranged at least app... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6930842 | Optical element holding device for exposure apparatus An optical element holding device includes a ring body for accommodating an optical element and a drive mechanism for driving the optical element. The ring body has an inner ring portion, which engages with a peripheral edge of the optical element, and an outer ring... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6927921 | Power transmission device, lens barrel, and image pickup apparatus A multiplying mechanism is arranged between a drive source and a mechanism that transmits a rotary output from the drive source to a driven portion. A rotation information detecting unit that outputs rotation information is rotated in synchronism with the multiplyin... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924940 | Zoom lens unit and method of driving the same A drive control circuit executes a cycle at least once while a first movable part moves one pitch of an electrode of a plurality of groups of electrodes, the cycle including a first operation for attracting the first movable part to a driving electrode substrate, a ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6914729 | Lens barrel and picture taking apparatus having the same A lens barrel movable between a collapsed position and a photographing position, and a picture taking apparatus using the lens barrel. The lens barrel has lens groups movable along an optical axis, a deformable mirror supported in the lens barrel, the deformable mir... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912096 | Rear-focus zoom lens device and video camera A rear-focus zoom lens device includes a wide-angle direction rotation restricting unit and a telephoto direction rotation restricting unit for separately restricting rotations of a zoom ring in a wide-angle direction and a telephoto direction and for separately can... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6909464 | Zoom lens and a movable lens hood mounting mechanism of the zoom lens A zoom lens includes a plurality of lens groups, and a cam barrel having a cam groove formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof. The cam barrel includes a first barrel having the cam groove on an inner peripheral surface thereof, and a second barrel which is fit... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6903879 | Lens barrel The present invention provides a lens barrel in which all lens groups are attached to a leading cylindrical body. A movable lens group of the lens groups is moved by a driving source incorporated in the leading cylindrical body. The lens barrel is less likely to be ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6879446 | Viewfinder mechanism A viewfinder mechanism is provided for use with a zoom lens system. The viewfinder mechanism includes a set of pivoting levers driven by the linear motion of the zoom lens. In one particular embodiment, the pivoting levers drive the viewfinder lenses to approximate ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6879445 | Power/manual lens barrel having a manual operating ring A lens barrel includes a stationary member; a rotary input shaft; a manual operating ring rotatably supported by the stationary member and rotated by the rotary input shaft via a gear mechanism; an optical element movable along the optical axis by rotation of the ma... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6862145 | Positioning mechanism and positioning mechanism for film scanner A positioning mechanism includes a moving body which can be moved in accordance with a drive force supplied from a drive source, a stopper which defines a movement extremity of the moving body, and a biasing device which engages with the moving body when the moving ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6856469 | Lens driving device A lens driving device includes a moving body equipped with a lens and a driving magnet attached to the lens, and a fixed body that is equipped with a driving coil that forms together with the driving magnet a magnetic circuit and moves the moving body in an optical ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6853507 | Lens driving device The present invention relates to a lens driving device, more particularly, capable of adjusting an effective focal length determined by the relative distance of lenses in an optical device having a zooming function. In the lens driving device, a barrel unit has an i... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6825991 | Lens driving device A lens barrel incorporating a lens driving device is provided which includes a fixed frame, a cam ring inserted into the fixed frame in freely rotatable fashion, first and free forward and backward motion, and an aperture ring supported by the first group lens frame... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6822810 | Lens apparatus and image-taking apparatus A lens apparatus which is easy to assemble, provides high strength at the flange portion, and achieves high degree of design freedom, too, is disclosed. On the circumferential wall of a second barrel member, a first groove portion is disposed to guide a guide portio... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6822809 | Drive transmission device and optical apparatus using same The invention provides an apparatus including an optical unit that movably supports an optical member driven by a manual-drive member, an input member driven by an actuator, an output member for transmitting drive of the input member and driving the manual-drive mem... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6819500 | Lens device including orthogonally driven blur compensation lens actuators and axially driven lens actuator, and optical equipment using same A lens device comprises a movable compensation lens holding member holding a blur compensation lens, two blur compensation actuators for driving the movable compensation lens holding member to move in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens device to c... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6813092 | Zoom lens apparatus In the zoom lens apparatus, a lens frame for a variable-magnification lens or a correcting lens is configured of an inner frame and an outer frame, and any focus blurring due to variations in wavelength of subject light can be compensated for accurately by shifting ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6813441 | Lens drive system A lens drive system includes a lens frame having a lens element; a nut member secured to the lens frame, and which are both movable in an optical axis direction without rotating; a feed screw shaft having a male thread portion and a non-threaded portion, the male th... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6809884 | Zoom lens barrel assembly A zoom lens barrel assembly includes a first lens group including first and second sub-lens groups; a second lens group; a sub-lens group switching mechanism for moving the first or second sub-lens group away from the other in a short focal length photographing rang... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6798582 | Reduction gear mechanism A reduction gear mechanism includes at least first and second axes which extend parallel to each other; one of the first and second axes rotatably supports at least two gears arranged one after the other in the axial direction thereof, and the other of the first and... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6773117 | Feed screw device Both end parts of a feed screw device are movably supported through cushioning members, and an inertia force of the screw after a movable member moved by the screw has collided against a stopper is absorbed by a movement in an axial direction, so that an impact at a... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6766110 | Jumping zoom lens for digital still cameras A multifocal lens to be used for digital still cameras comprises a fixed first lens or a first group of lenses; a movable second lens or a second group of lenses; and a fixed third lens or a third group of lenses, wherein the second lens or second group of lenses mo... | 07/20/2004 |
