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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7955005 | Roll rotation mechanism In a roll rotation mechanism (1) for continuously causing a film-rolling roll to rotate at a constant rate, an Oldham coupling (4) is interposed in a transmission path between a wave gear reduction mechanism (3) and a roll (10). The Oldha... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7918613 | Switching mechanism for camera A switching mechanism for a camera includes: a control unit; a driving device coupled with and actuated by the control unit; a first gear set coupled with the driving device; a second gear coupled with the first gear set and centrally provided with a rotary shaft ha... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7397955 | Digital camera and method of controlling same Whether a portrait photography mode has been set is determined. A first threshold value is set when the portrait photography mode has been set and a second threshold value that is smaller than the first threshold value is set when the portrait photography mode has n... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7223197 | Reduced twist carrier An epicyclic gear train includes a sun gear rotatable about a central axis, a concentric outer ring gear, and a plurality of gears mechanically intermediate the sun gear and the ring gear, and which are in meshing engagement therewith. An epicyclic carrier assembly ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7215374 | Camera module having geared lens barrel A camera having a housing, an imaging array positioned in said housing, and a lens assembly is disclosed. The lens assembly includes a fixed portion attached to the housing and a moveable portion connected to the fixed portion by a threaded coupling. The lens is pos... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7111998 | Adjustable camera with belt tensioning apparatus A camera assembly including first and second rotating members and a motor assembly defining a first axis and operably coupled to first rotating member to drivingly rotate first rotating member. A flexible member operably couples first and second rotating members suc... | 09/26/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6751408 | Lens-fitted photo film unit and method for reusing the same An anti-reverse claw is in mesh with a winding dial of a lens-fitted photo film unit. The anti-reverse claw has a pair of welded pieces. The welded pieces go behind a rear cover of the lens-fitted photo film through a pair of holes formed in the rear cover. After as... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6722796 | Camera A camera equipped with an accommodating chamber which constitutes a periphery including a film spool spindle and which accommodates a film cartridge having a recess at one longitudinal end thereof, includes: a protruding surface portion which is provided in the acco... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6678472 | Camera A camera having a transport device for stepwise transport of a film in each case by the length of a respective picture, wherein the transport device includes a film take-up shaft which is driven by way of a winding reel on which a pull element, preferably... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6603930 | Camera In a camera, a main body is provided with a rotating member, which is rotated along a guide of the main body, and the rotating member is connected with an operating device for rotating the rotating member. A focusing screen is mounted to the rotating memb... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6497520 | Compact camera A film transport gear mechanism is mounted on an upper portion of an internal body frame of a camera, and held rotatably from the top by a gear holding plate (51). The gear holding plate is integrally formed with a finder frame (50) that holds a viewfinde... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6480674 | Lens-fitted film unit and production method thereof A lens-fitted unit includes a photographic film loaded in advance, a shutter, a taking lens, an exposure counter plate that is provided with numerals indicating the number of exposures or the number of exposed frames, and is moved in one direction for eac... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6450705 | Cartridge accommodating device of camera, and cartridge chamber lid of camera A cartridge accommodating device of a camera includes a fork arranged to fit into a spool shaft of a film cartridge, a key member arranged to be movable back and forth with respect to a key way provided in the spool shaft and to transmit a film transport ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6386769 | Apparatus having device for opening and closing cover of film cartridge chamber A camera arranged to automatically open and close the cover of a film cartridge chamber includes a gear member having a gear part arranged to rotate for feeding and rewinding a film by engaging a supply spool of a film cartridge, a revolving member arrang... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6377754 | Driving force transmission switching apparatus A driving force transmission switching apparatus for a camera in accordance with the present invention includes: a drive source that generates a driving force; a worm gear that receives the driving force to rotate; a driving force transmission gear device... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6371666 | Camera having a safety lock mechanism A hook of a cartridge-chamber lid is engaged with one end of an engagement lever to be kept in a closed position. The other end of the engagement lever is engaged with an intermediate lever attached to an upper face of a cartridge chamber. When a photo fi... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6363219 | One-time-use camera with belt-drive connection between manual film winder and film winding spool A one-time-use camera includes a film cartridge with a film winding spool that is rotatable to wind a filmstrip into the film cartridge, a manually rotatable film winding thumbwheel having an axis that is parallel to an axis of the film winding spool, and... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6360061 | Camera with a device for locking the film feed A camera comprises a film feed device (9) for feeding a light-sensitive film arranged in the camera, a shutter release device (300) for releasing a photographic shutter (10) of the camera for the image-forming exposure of the film, and a feed locking devi... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6343880 | Camera loadable with photo film cassette A camera has a spool drive shaft disposed to project from an inside of a cassette holder chamber, connected with a spool of a photo film cassette coaxially, to feed a photo film from a cassette, and to wind the photo film back into the cassette. A sun and... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6336751 | Film feeding device, and optical apparatus including the same A film feeding device includes a driving source, a spool gear, provided on a film wind-up spool, to which a driving force of the driving source is transmitted, a cartridge-spool driving gear for transmitting the driving force of the driving source to a ca... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6331082 | Camera with combined film advance/rewind mechanism The camera of this invention preferably includes a combined film advance/rewind mechanism for advancing film from a film cassette to a film path and to a film spool and for rewinding film into the cassette after the film has been exposed within the film p... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6325555 | Camera with external combined crank and key for film pre-winding and limiting removal and reloading of film and method of accomplishing same A camera having means for pre-winding unexposed film, in non-darkroom conditions from a film cartridge to a take up spool and limiting removal and replacement of the film cartridge to those designated to do. A latching member includes a pair of slots stru... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6315466 | Clutch unit and camera A clutch unit according to the present invention includes a driving sleeve fixed to a driving shaft and a driven sleeve fixed to a driven shaft. A coil-like clutch spring is received on the driven sleeve, and a clutch sleeve is received on the driving sle... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6317568 | Camera with film winder retractable to facilitate film loading A camera includes a rotatable film winder that coaxially engages a film spool to rotate the film spool in order to wind a filmstrip onto the film spool and that is retractable from the film spool to facilitate film loading into the camera, is characterize... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6301445 | Dual wheel exposure counter A dual wheel exposure counter comprising a rotatable tenths counter wheel having a series of at least two spaced units, and a rotatable unit counter wheel having a series of ten spaced units and a rotating member which rotates the tenths counter wheel to ... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6270265 | Film-engaging sprocket drive A film-engaging sprocket drive for use with an edge-perforated filmstrip having successive uniform-pitch film perforations includes a set of two coaxial sprocket wheels each having a series of uniform-pitch film-engaging teeth that are similarly shaped to... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6270264 | Camera with film cartridge alignment feature A camera has a cartridge setting chamber in which a film cartridge is set. A fork is rotatably disposed in the cartridge setting chamber and is engagable with a rotary shaft of the film cartridge to feed a film in the film cartridge. A cartridge support m... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6263159 | Camera having resiliently biasing label and method A camera has a casing and a subsystem having a first mechanical element and a second mechanical element. The first mechanical element is movable relative to the casing, between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The mechanical elements are eng... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6233400 | Lens-fitted photographic film unit and method of manufacturing the same A lens-fitted film unit is preloaded with photographic film, and has an eight-toothed driven sprocket wheel in mesh with perforations on the film. When the photographic film is fed by one frame, the sprocket is caused to make one rotation. A shutter mecha... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6226457 | One-time use camera loading method In a method for loading a film cartridge in a one-time use camera, the film cartridge is placed in a film cartridge chamber of a camera frame assembly. An anti-backup subsystem is mounted on the camera frame assembly. The anti-backup subsystem has a first... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6222994 | Film unit with a lens attached A film unit is provided with an unexposed film chamber in which an unexposed film is accommodated beforehand; a photographing lens through which the unexposed film is imagewise exposed; a film wind-up chamber; a spool provided in the film wind-up chamber,... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6220769 | Rotation detection mechanism and an apparatus provided with same An apparatus comprising planet gears 3 which rotate in engagement with a pinion gear 2 that itself rotates integratedly with the rotating shaft 12a of a motor 12 such that the planet gears 3 rotate around the periphery of the rotating shaft 12a, a carrier... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6213655 | Camera with winding spindle expandable to rotationally drive film spool A camera includes a cartridge receiving chamber for receiving a film cartridge having a rotatable film spool with an accessible end cavity, and a winding spindle for rotationally engaging the film spool inside its end cavity to wind exposed film into the ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6205295 | Camera with film-door-lock indicator A camera comprising a cartridge receiving chamber for a film cartridge with a film leader that can be advanced from the film cartridge in preparation for film exposure and can be wound into the film cartridge after film exposure, a film door movable open ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6195506 | Photo film take-up spool and shaft A take-up shaft is adapted to taking up photo film from a photo film cassette having the photo film, and particularly used in a lens-fitted photo film unit. The photo film cassette includes a cassette spool on which the photo film is wound in a roll form.... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192195 | Camera with combination anti-back pawl and window for exposure counter A camera includes an exposure counter wheel that has a series of exposure count indicia and is incrementally rotated in a count direction to successively view the exposure count indicia, and an anti-backup pawl that engages with the exposure counter wheel... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6176625 | Camera and a method of loading a camera A camera (2) has a film-cassette chamber (12) for receiving a film cassette (13) having a spool therein on which film is wound and a film receiving chamber (14), the camera further comprises a film advance wheel (30) including means (32) for engaging the ... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6163650 | Camera with quietly operating manual film winder and anti-backup device A camera comprising a film winder manually rotatable in a film winding direction about an axis and having a continuous alternating series of teeth and spaces concentric about the axis, and an anti-backup device having a tooth that can be received in any o... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6160965 | Receiving device for a film cassette A receiving device for a film cassette, having a light-proof housing. The housing includes a film-advancing device which is assigned a gripping region for the start of the film projecting out of the film cassette. In order to facilitate insertion of the f... | 12/12/2000 |
