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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7226223 | Camera with motorized film advancement A camera (2) has a main body (4) defining a pair of film chambers on opposite sides of an exposure opening (18) comprising a first chamber (14) for receiving a film cassette having a central spool to which film is secured and a second cha... | 06/05/2007 |
| 6965134 | Image pick-up unit including an image pick-up device and optical filter layers An image pick-up unit includes an image pick-up device; and a plurality of optical filters which are cemented together in layers and positioned in front of the image pick-up device. At least two optical filters among the plurality of optical filters, which have diff... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6814325 | Film-winding device for camera There is a film-press spring for pressing a photographic film on a take-up spool in a take-up chamber. The film-press spring has a main body for guiding a leading end of the photographic film at the beginning of the film winding and a plate bended in U-shape against... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6665493 | Camera film feed device and film feed method A camera film feed device is provided for enabling freely loadable placement of a film magazine which has a takeup shaft on which a film is wound and which has a film leader protruding from a film feeding opening. The camera film feed device includes a ma... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6526229 | Camera having a filmstrip holdfast spaced apart from a film path and transportable camera intermediate In a camera frame assembly, a frame includes a film return chamber, a film roll chamber spaced apart from the film return chamber, and a midsection extending between the chambers. The midsection has a pair of film guide surfaces that define a film path be... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6526228 | One-time use camera assembly process having filmstrip anchored during camera frame assembly transport In a film camera production method, a leading portion of a filmstrip is draped across a midsection of a camera frame. The camera frame has a film roll chamber joined to the midsection. A free end of the leading portion is lodged in the film roll chamber a... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6507712 | Camera A camera in which a magazine can be loaded into a magazine chamber in the direction along a winding shaft thereof in a state in which a film leader is wound thereon. During such magazine loading, the film leader is inserted along the outer periphery of a ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6461060 | Camera A cassette chamber, a take-up chamber and a battery room are formed on a main body. A rear cover is attached to the main body. The rear cover is molded from plastics and integrated with an outer cover section and a frame section. In the frame section, a l... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6361224 | Film transport device and camera A film transport device includes a spool arranged to take up and wind thereon a film pulled out from a film cartridge, a motor disposed within the spool, a spool gear arranged to have an output of the motor transmitted thereto and to drive the spool, the ... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6328486 | Camera A camera includes a camera body having formed integrally therewith a film-travel guide part in a film exposing position and a fixed photo-taking lens barrel, and a photo-taking image frame forming member mounted in the film exposing position on the camera... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6283645 | Camera with film debris catching comb A camera has a rear backframe (exposure) opening, including a pair of spaced opposite ends across which successive sections of a filmstrip are moved for each section of the filmstrip to be advanced over the backframe opening. A pair of parallel film rails... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6276846 | Film platen retracted from over backframe opening in camera to uncover film support deployed to guide film leader A camera comprising a cartridge receiving chamber for a film cartridge with a filmstrip having a protruding film leader, a film door that opens and closes to uncover and re-cover the chamber, a backframe opening for exposing successive sections of the fil... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6186678 | Film guide structure in camera body A camera body includes an aperture unit, having a picture-taking opening and guide rails for defining the position of a film in the direction of an optical axis with respect to the picture-taking opening, a cartridge chamber unit connectable with one end ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6138941 | Flange for hollow article The invention relates to a flange for a hollow article which can be easily separated from an end of the hollow article such as a paper tube, after a roll of photosensitive material or the like is used up. A flange 20, detachably attached to an end of a ho... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6106163 | Film transporting device A windup reel is formed at a step reel which has a small diameter section and a large diameter section. The large diameter section is formed in such a direction as to press a lower edge of photographic film against a guide pin. When a leader section of tr... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6033128 | Rolled film backing paper with cinch tabs The present invention is a photographic roll film which includes a photographic film strip and a light shielding paper secured to the photographic film strip. The backing paper has a leader which includes at least one cinch tab extending out of a plane of... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5988894 | Guide arrangement for facilitating insertion of film leader into easy-load camera An easy-load camera comprising a cartridge receiving chamber for receiving a film cartridge with a protruding film leader that has one longitudinal edge extending straight from a reduced-width forward-most leader portion to a full-width leader portion fol... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5984535 | Camera and film winding device of camera The present invention is related to a camera having a film wind spool with an insertion slot for receiving a film leader, a counter roller at a film supply side of the film wind spool, and a film winding device having a plate-shaped guide member between t... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5940650 | Film transporting device having guide members at predetermined locations A windup reel is formed at a step reel which has a small diameter section and a large diameter section. The large diameter section is formed in such a direction as to press a lower edge of photographic film against a guide pin. When a leader section of tr... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5940643 | Guide arrangement for facilitating insertion of film leader into easy-load camera A camera comprising a cartridge receiving chamber for receiving a film cartridge with a filmstrip having a film leader, a backframe opening at which the filmstrip is to be exposed during picture-taking, and a guide arrangement located to facilitate moveme... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5930541 | Film guide for guiding film leader over metering sprocket in camera deployed when door to cartridge receiving chamber opened A camera comprising a cartridge receiving chamber for a film cartridge with a filmstrip including a film leader, a film takeup chamber, a backframe opening located between the cartridge receiving chamber and the film take-up chamber, a metering sprocket f... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5918083 | Camera for use with a roll photo film A camera is used with a Brownie photo film, which has a photo filmstrip on which plural frames are formable serially. A light-shielding leader is disposed on a front end of the photo filmstrip. A light-shielding trailer is disposed on a rear end of the ph... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5909601 | Film support for guiding film leader out of backframe opening in camera deployed when door to cartridge receiving chamber opened A camera including a cartridge receiving chamber for a film cartridge with a filmstrip including a film leader, a film take-up chamber, a backframe opening located between the cartridge receiving chamber and the film take-up chamber, a film platen located... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5878297 | Camera with guiderails shaped to provide film flatness in the image region In a camera using a cartridge (1) which includes flexible flanges (5), (6) having loose film wind preventive annular juts and being formed at both ends of a spool (3) in the cartridge, and in which pressing forces operate on film in a width direction of t... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5774757 | Camera with film deflector pivotable about inclined axis A camera comprising a backframe opening for exposing successive sections of a filmstrip in a film exposure plane, and a deflector pivotally supported at one end of the backframe opening to permit a leading edge of the filmstrip to pivot the deflector away... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5774756 | Camera with flexible film deflector A camera comprising a backframe opening for exposing successive sections of a filmstrip, and a deflector supported at one end of the backframe opening for movement to permit a leading edge of the filmstrip which is advanced against the deflector to move t... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5761557 | Film transport device One end of both pinch roller shafts of a pair of pinch rollers is arranged at the first bearing member, and at the second bearing member the other end is arranged. The first and second bearing members are supported rotatably around a supporting shaft prov... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5754905 | Camera with body and backside plate formed for film slit entry A camera according to the present invention is arranged to introduce the leading end portion of a film accommodated in a film cartridge into a slit portion formed between a pressure plate member and a camera body, by rotating the spool of the film cartrid... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5752110 | Apparatus that uses a photographic film An apparatus in which photographic film is fed out of a film cartridge and is led through a film path to a spool chamber to be wound on a take-up spool includes a film guide that extends from the end of the film path toward the spool chamber. The film gui... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5746383 | Film forwarding device The film forwarding device of the present invention includes: a take up spool which takes up a film upon a circumferential outer surface of the take up spool, the film having, upon a leading end of the film, a projecting portion a normal line to which is ... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5737653 | Camera capable of magnetic recording A camera capable of magnetic recording includes a pressing pad for a magnetic head. The pressing pad is secured to the camera body and the head is made movable in order to increase the proximity of the head to the film and to enable reliable application t... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5732300 | Mounting mechanism for film pressing roller of camera A mounting mechanism of a camera having a film take-up spool is provided for mounting a film pressing roller on a camera body. The mounting mechanism includes a back cover, a roller supporting arm, an elastic member and a pressing device. The back cover i... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5682566 | Film transport apparatus A contact position at which the photographic film sent out from a film cartridge first contacts a film guide means is determined in such a manner that the photographic film does not contact a film entrance of the film cartridge when a film winding diamete... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5666581 | Film initial-advance apparatus for camera A film initial-advance apparatus for a camera which enables the initial advance of a film by a reciprocating feeding claw, and in which a gear train for film feeding and driving members are disposed on the same side of a spool. A feeding member is dispose... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5619740 | Apparatus for preventing film perforation damage during loading A film loading apparatus for preventing the breakage or enlargement of a film perforation. The apparatus comprises a spool having catches each of which engages a perforation of film, and a film feeding member having a claw which reciprocatingly moves in s... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5530506 | Film take-up device in camera In a camera, a snag-and-drag web has one end portion secured to a take-up spool and an opposite free end portion provided with an integral hook. The web's free end portion initially protrudes into a cartridge-receiving chamber to be bent when a film cartr... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5530507 | Method of assembling one-time-use camera A method of assembling a one-time-use camera comprising the steps of placing one of a longitudinal series of edge perforations in a film leader of a filmstrip to be exposed in the camera onto one of an annular series of peripheral teeth of a metering spro... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5376982 | Film loading mechanism of a camera In a camera capable of changing a photographing frame size defined in a photographing aperture, frame size limit members are moved, at an initial stage of film feeding, to a position to form a frame size smaller than an ordinary frame size or to a positio... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5307101 | Camera using film cartridge A camera using a film cartridge having a shaft for winding a film and intercepting light, includes: a cartridge chamber for accommodating the film cartridge; a driving unit; a driving source for generating force for driving the driving unit; a transmittin... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5221940 | Film feeder for a camera A film feeder for a camera comprises a feeding out mechanism for feeding out film of a film cartridge wound around a spool shaft, by rotating the spool shaft of the loaded film cartridge; a winding up mechanism for driving a wind up spool to wind up aroun... | 06/22/1993 |
