Class 396/540 - Ergonomic design

Subclass of Class 396 - Photography
Definition: Subject matter wherein the structure has a particular shape
No. of patents: 35
Last issue date: 11/01/2011

Number	Title	Issue Date
8050552	Ergonomic photographic device An ergonomic photographic device includes a camera and a shell. The shell has a front portion and a back portion, with the camera being disposed in the front portion. The back portion has a leaning portion which is capable of accommodating leaning of the palm of a u...	11/01/2011
7848641	Digital camera with left- or right-handed operation A digital camera has a housing and an exposure circuit in the housing. The digital camera further includes a locating post fixed on the housing, a rotatable assembly, and a shutter button electronically connected to the exposure circuit. The rotatable assembly has a...	12/07/2010
7831143	Electronic device An electronic device includes an operation member which is arranged within a range where a particular finger of right hand gripping the electronic device in a vertical orientation reaches and in which assigned functions can be customized, a storage unit adapted to s...	11/09/2010
7792424	Camera handle with plastic layer and protective film and method for manufacturing thereof A camera handle includes an underplate, a plastic layer and a protective film. The protective film enwraps the plastic layer and is fixed on the underplate. A method for manufacturing the camera handle includes the following steps: fixing a protective film on an und...	09/07/2010
7385647	Housing cover for image photographing apparatus A housing cover of an image photographing apparatus has a main body mounting therein a deck for recording and reproducing information on an image input through a camera unit and a circuit board. A housing is openably hinged on one side of the deck to mount and separ...	06/10/2008
7262906	Means for transporting a microscope A microscope includes a microscope arm having an interior and an exterior surface. The interior surface has at least one recessed portion disposed therein extending from the interior surface of the microscope arm to an inner recess surface of the microscope arm. The...	08/28/2007
6926453	Photography device having a lens barrier A photography device with a simple structure which is capable of implementing simple operations for opening and closing a lens barrier without risk of damaging or breaking the lens barrier or a lens barrel. When a grip switch is moved to an on position for turning p...	08/09/2005
6837630	Camera and a portable apparatus having a flat body A camera including a camera body having a substantially flat shape, a photographing optical system configured to perform a photographing operation and accommodated in the camera body, the photographing optical system having a photographing optical axis in a directio...	01/04/2005
6819868	Camera A camera is provided that includes a camera housing and a TFT panel, which permits verification of a formed image, located on the back of the camera housing. A strobe unit and an electronic viewfinder unit are located in the upper part of the camera housing. The ele...	11/16/2004
6778777	Camera An electronic camera having therein a CCD (image sensing device). A lens barrel is mounted on a camera body thereof. As focusing means, this camera has therein a ranging unit in an active AF manner and a contrast detector in a contrast AF manner using subject light ...	08/17/2004
6683653	Electronic camera and dial control device of electronic equipment When the interior of the electronic camera is seen from the back side, a battery is arranged at the part corresponding to the inside of a grip part arranged at the right side of the casing so that the long axis of the battery is along the right side of th...	01/27/2004
6655858	Camera with cover attachment movable to actuate operational device A camera includes a main body part, a pair of front and rear cover parts that house the main body part between them, and a cover attachment to the front cover part. An operational device is mounted on the main body part to be included within the front and...	12/02/2003
6567618	Camera A camera body has grip portions for right-handed users and the left-handed users provided respectively on the right and left sides thereof. A release button to be operated by the right hand is mounted on the side of the grip portion for right-handed users...	05/20/2003
6485201	Film back exchangeable camera A film back exchangeable camera is provided. The film back exchangeable camera has a camera body and a film back that can be attached to a rear portion of the camera body. The film back exchangeable camera includes a backward protrusion protruding backwar...	11/26/2002
6393225	Camera The present invention relates to a camera which gives, to the user, a suggestion of how the camera be hand-gripped readily and properly and can prevent camera shaking beforehand. The camera comprises a picture-taking lens for forming a subject image, a ca...	05/21/2002
6384863	Ergonomically designed digital camera capable of being held by one hand An ergonomically designed digital camera includes a hand grip that can be comfortably held by one hand and a lens assembly that is positioned above and connected to the hand grip by a telescoping and rotating device. The hand grip has one or more buttons ...	05/07/2002
6217235	Blur preventing device for camera A blur preventing device of a camera includes a base portion having a depressed portion on one side thereof to allow a nose of a user to be inserted therein; a sebaceous matter absorbing layer disposed on a surface of the base portion including the depres...	04/17/2001
5926653	Lens-fitted photographic film unit having a shaped outer case A lens-fitted photographic film unit includes a unit body having at least a curved surface, such as a semi-cylindrical grip protruding forwardly from a front wall of the unit body. The unit body is wrapped in an outer case made of a sheet material. The sh...	07/20/1999
5878284	One-time use camera A one-time use camera, including: mechanical members for photographing; a front cover member; a rear cover member, light-tightly joined with the front cover member, for covering the mechanical members; and a rear grip protrusion, accommodated to the rear ...	03/02/1999
5870645	Camera for use with a compact film cartridge A camera for use with a compact film cartridge having a battery arranged in the front end portion of a grip portion, and a cartridge chamber in which a compact film cartridge is stored is arranged at the boundary between the grip portion and a camera body...	02/09/1999
5742860	Instant camera A camera according to the present invention has an arrangement that a film is discharged to a side toward a subject after a picture has been taken, the instant camera comprising a grip portion formed on a right portion of a camera body when viewed in a no...	04/21/1998
5732304	Reduced width camera construction A camera and its components are arranged to reduce the overall camera width while avoiding an increase in height. The camera includes a cartridge chamber and a spool chamber positioned to surround the lens barrel. The chambers and the barrel are aligned i...	03/24/1998
5708896	Camera having a battery and a strobe condenser therein A camera having a strobe and a strobe condenser electrically connected to the strobe. The strobe condenser consists of a plurality of condensers, some of which are accommodated in a grip portion integrally formed with a camera body of the camera. The rema...	01/13/1998
5659803	Lens-fitted photographic film package A lens-fitted photographic film package with a flash unit and a viewfinder optical system, which is thin and contributes to effective and economical automatic recycling operations. The taking lens system of the film package is accommodated in a lens holde...	08/19/1997
5623712	Camera having a grip recess and a lens barrel recess which cooperate to provide a finger receiving recess The present invention provides a camera comprising an opening that is located in a camera body and defines a film screen, a lens barrel located in front of the opening and extended forward of the camera body, a projection located behind the opening, a gri...	04/22/1997
5563674	Camera having improved grip surface and method of making same The invention provides a camera body having an external surface for a photographers hand to grip the camera, the surface comprising a laminate of (1) an external first layer comprising a thermoplastic elastomer bonded to (2) a second layer comprising a th...	10/08/1996
5426478	Camera with a built-in strobe having a gripping section and a finger intrusion prevention screen A camera with a built-in strobe according to the present invention comprises a camera housing, an optical system located substantially in the center of the camera housing, a gripping section formed at an end of the camera housing in a direction that does ...	06/20/1995
5270761	Camera assembly A camera body has a pair of right-hand and left-hand symmetric openings for alternatively receiving a manually actuated camera device, such as a shutter release, thereby allowing the camera body to be tailored selectively for right-hand or left-hand use o...	12/14/1993
5227822	Camera A camera having a projecting portion disposed at the rear of an aperture portion for forming an image to be photographed on a film and a grip portion formed on the right side of a lens barrel, the left-hand portion of the projecting portion forming a subs...	07/13/1993
4918477	Camera housing with gripping recesses A generally rectangular still camera housing is provided with a pair of arcuate recesses in the front surface configured to accept the user's fingers in a variety of confortable gripping positions. The recess walls are configured to acceptingly guide the ...	04/17/1990
4866470	Camera A camera which can prevent a photographic objective in the camera from being covered with the fingers of a photographer. In the camera, around the photographic objective in the front surface of the camera, there is formed a projected portion, a recessed p...	09/12/1989
4857948	Camera A rearwardly bent camera has a holding portion adapted to be grasped by the right hand of a photographer. Preferably, the bending angle of the holding portion relative to the front surface of the camera body is in the range of 5 to 35 degrees....	08/15/1989
4801960	Mode selector member and finger recess in a camera A mode selector member and a recess are disposed in a relatively close relation on the front face of a camera to enable a finger of the user that operates the mode selector member to be readily transferred from the member to the recess, after the member i...	01/31/1989
4736219	Camera with a lens cover A camera having a lens cover is provided, at its one end portion, with a projecting portion which assists gripping of the camera. The lens cover is laterally slided to cover and uncover a front surface of an objective lens and is provided, on its front su...	04/05/1988
4349262	Automatic film winding device having a movable grip member An automatic winding device for a camera adapted to be operatively mounted on a camera body to perform film winding action includes a main body part adapted to be connected with the camera body and a grip part including a release button operably connected...	09/14/1982

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