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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7270397 | Modular elongate image processing device A modular image processing device includes a camera module configured to capture images to be printed. A flash module is configured to generate a flash on operation of the camera module. A printer module configured to receive image data from the camera module and to... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7253575 | Industrial optical shutter A highly versatile optical shutter for industrial and scientific applications is disclosed. The has a aperture which defines a light path through the shutter, and a shutter vane or blade that is moved into and out of the light path using a precision, microprocessor ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7178999 | Shutter-opening/closing and shutter-flash synchronization driver for dual-blade shutter in camera A flash camera has a single-piece shutter-opening/closing and shutter-flash synchronization driver that translates in one direction to pivot a pair of shutter blades away from one another and simultaneously push a movable switch contact of a normally open shutter-fl... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7168865 | Preventing shutter-rebound in camera A normally closed shutter in a camera has at least one blade that is moved to open and close the shutter. A movable blade-driver in the camera has a supporting connection with a fixed support to support the blade-driver for movement, and has a driving connection wit... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7128423 | Illumination apparatus, and image capturing apparatus and projector apparatus using this illumination apparatus An illumination apparatus comprises a plurality of luminous bodies as light sources, luminous body drive portions configured to drive to light each of the plurality of luminous bodies, an optical member configured to lead and apply light exiting from a luminous body... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7106962 | Synchronizing shutter and flash in camera with switch closing member capable of elastic deformation A camera with a built-in electronic flash has a spring-driven high energy lever that is pivoted for initiating shutter opening and for translating a switch closing member to close a normally open shutter-flash synchronization switch. When the switch reopens, it tran... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7070343 | Sector drive assembly for camera A sector drive assembly for a camera with reduced power consumption has a base plate having an aperture, one or more sectors capable of opening and closing the aperture, an electromagnetic actuator for driving the sectors, a drive force transmitting mechanism for tr... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6941065 | Camera interlocks that ensure proper movement of film The camera of this invention has a film cassette compartment, a film spool (13), a film exposing area, and an interlock that prevents moving exposed film from the film cassette. With the camera, a film cassette (2) is loaded into the film cassette comp... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6741806 | Lens-fitted photo film unit and method for manufacturing lens-fitted photo film unit A stop lever is rotatable on a light shielding tunnel with an exposure aperture. When the stop lever is at a fast shutter speed position, a support pad is located below a lower metal plate of a synchronization switch of a flash circuit. The support pad holds the low... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6701077 | Exposure control system and camera having same In a first aspect of the present invention, a camera exposure control system is provided. The camera exposure control system has a shutter movable during an exposure period through a path of travel between a first position and a second position and a dete... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6490416 | Focal plane shutter having synchronous contact member A focal plane shutter for a camera has a synchronous contact member that produces less chattering than conventional synchronous contact members. One end of an opening electromagnet and one end of a closing electromagnet are separately connected to the hig... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6418278 | Camera shutter system The camera of this invention includes an improved shutter system that has the same shutter waveform when a flash is employed and when a flash is not employed. In a preferred embodiment, the shutter system includes a shutter that is rotatably mounted to th... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6389234 | Camera incorporating a focal-plane shutter There is described a camera incorporating a focal-plane shutter. The camera includes a lens, an image window having an aperture to bound a light coming through the lens in a plain perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens, a focal-plane shutter and a p... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6337953 | Strobe device of lens-fitted film unit and production method of the strobe device A strobe device, including: a strobe circuit board; a connecting conductor composed of a wire member; and a strobe emitting portion which includes; a) a light emitting tube, having electrode terminals on its both ends, b) a reflector for reflecting strobe... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6253030 | Camera shutter A shutter for a camera has a film advance mechanism for advancing film past a shutter opening and a stroboscope for emitting light. The shutter has a base plate having the shutter opening, opening sectors for undergoing opening movement in an operational ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6236812 | Lens-fitted photo film unit having IC A write control IC is incorporated in the photo film housing, for writing information to EEPROM. A battery supplies the flash circuit and the write control IC with power. A charge control signal generator or BUSY terminal is disposed in the write control ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 5913084 | One-time-use camera with shutter, flash, and optical film encodement synchronization A camera comprises flash circuit board, a shutter-flash synchronization contact conductively connected to the flash circuit board for synchronizing shutter opening and flash illumination, a shutter blade conductively connected to the flash circuit board a... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5899588 | Shutter device of a camera A shutter blade is rotatably attached between a base member and a cover member which constitute an exposure unit. An engaging shaft of the shutter blade emerges from a hole formed in the cover member. The cover member is integrally formed with a covering ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5721985 | Shutter and flash synchronization assemblage A shutter and flash synchronization assemblage comprising a flash circuit board having a shutter-flash synchronization contact, an electrically conductive shutter blade supported for movement between a lens covering position spaced from the synchronizatio... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5708876 | One-time-use camera with combined shutter-flash synchronization contact and holder for flash capacitor and battery A camera comprises a shutter-flash synchronization contact, a pair of battery contacts, a flash capacitor, and a flash circuit board conductively connected to the shutter-flash synchronization contact, the pair of battery contacts and the flash capacitor.... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5640622 | Electronic flash apparatus of a camera An electronic flash apparatus of a camera incorporating a focal plane shutter has a capacitor for storing an electric charge, a flashtube for irradiating a subject with a flash of light by the electric charge stored in the capacitor and a setting unit cap... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5619737 | Encodement-on-film recording apparatus utilizes flash components in a camera A camera assembly comprises a plurality of encodement-on-film recording means adapted to receive electrical energy to provide various film encodements, an encodement-on-film selector movable to various selection positions to select one or more of the reco... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5579081 | Camera with built-in electronic flash An ever-flash exposure control system for a built-in flash camera regulates a triggering time T1 from the commencement of gradual opening of a program shutter at which an electronic flash is triggered and a flash duration time T2 for which the electronic ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5530320 | Flash fire control system for leaf shutter cameras A device for controlling the firing of one or more electronic flash units by a leaf type camera shutter. Flash synchonization is provided by switch selectible modes at shutter opening, at shutter closing, or with a plurality of electronic flash units, at ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5504554 | Automatic light emission control system for electronic flash An automatic light emission control system separately compensates the flashlight emission of each of a plurality of electronic flashes. A camera generates a first signal in synchronism with the opening of a shutter and generates a second signal when a TTL... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5432585 | Improved flash lockout A camera locks out an attempted flash photograph when the voltage of the flash charger is below a minimum voltage necessary for the flash to fire. Flash lockout may also take place when: the flash charger voltage is equal to or greater than the minimum fl... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5170199 | Lens-fitted photographic film unit A main body of a lens-fitted photographic film unit is provided with a film wind-up mechanism, a taking lens and a shutter mechanism. The main body with an unexposed film incorporated is covered by a front cover and a rear cover, which are directly attach... | 12/08/1992 |
| 4920371 | Camera control device A camera control device connected with an electronic still camera, a master camera and a strobo device, in which the shutter release operation of both camera is controlled so that, when a release switch of the camera control device is turned on, shutters ... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4868589 | Photographic camera A camera having, in addition to a real focal length photographing mode, a pseudo focal length photographing mode, namely, a photographing mode in which a part of a photographed image frame of a film is printed at an enlarging ratio different from an ordin... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4801957 | Disposable single-use camera and accessory re-usable electronic flash unit A disposable single-use camera is generally of the type wherein an inner camera part is pre-loaded with film and includes a taking lens, and an outer sealed pack contains the camera part and has an opening for the taking lens. According to the invention, ... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4769660 | Pin-hole type camera The invention relates to a pin-hole type camera in which the camera casing is divided into a plurality of light-tight sections, each of which is provided with a pin-hole, a shutter mechanism, a shutter release and flash means for exposing in random order ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4761666 | Camera capable of flash photography In a camera having a focal plane shutter, a magnet restrains the rearward shutter curtain in response to the supply of power to the magnet. A control device controls the period of power supply, and the restraint of the rearward shutter curtain is released... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4615604 | Circuit board for electrical instrument control A circuit board for electrical instrument control having patterns to which is applied a high voltage. In preventing the high voltage when appearing across the patterns from producing a faulty circuit operation, or damaging circuit elements by leakage, the... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4527876 | Exposure control shutter of a camera An exposure control shutter of a camera having an exposure opening, comprising first and second plane shutter blades, each shutter blade having a relatively large aperture and a relatively small aperture. The first and second shutter blades, one being dis... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4353632 | Electromagnetically driven shutter device In the disclosed device, an electromagnetic drive source in the form of a stator and rotor opens and closes shutter blades. A magnet sensor senses the displacement phase of the rotor, or any member operated by the rotor, to produce a timing signal at a pr... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4349259 | Exposure control mechanism for use with chemical flash An exposure control mechanism for use with chemical flash illumination includes a shutter having a primary shutter blade mounted for pivotal movement between a rest position wherein the shutter blade covers an exposure aperture, through an intermediate po... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4334747 | Device for preventing spring-back of shutter blade A device for preventing spring-back of the shutter blade of a camera wherein a plate spring projecting into the moving field of a shutter operation is provided with the motion of the shutter operation member being braked at its end phase by the plate spri... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4317070 | Circuits for flash equipment A circuit for flash equipment having a trigger control switch or an SCR with its gate lead connected to a condenser through a switching transistor which is rendered conducting when the main flash capacitor is charged to the normal firing voltage and when ... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4299461 | Exposure and flash fire control system A dual mode range responsive exposure and flash fire control system operates as a function of the photographic subject being located in either a near distance or a far distance range from the camera. For photographic subjects located within a near camera-... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4295722 | Camera for daylight and flash photography A flash unit triggering arrangement that cooperates with a shutter control mechanism or circuit of a camera for permitting the firing of a flash lamp of the flash unit in a time period during which the entire area of a film aperture of the camera remains ... | 10/20/1981 |
