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5790907 Compact photographic camera having lens slide  
A photographic camera of small, flat design, comprising a body shell, a taking lens, a viewfinder, a film chamber, a film transport apparatus, and a flash device. The body shell is configured...
5789044 Zeolite molecular sieves for packaging structures  
The invention relates to a method improving the storage qualities of a container or film holder comprising providing a container wherein at least a portion of the structure of said container...
RE35856 Light shielding apparatus  
A camera is provided having a film roll chamber for holding an unexposed roll of film, an exposure chamber into which ambient light enters through a taking lens to impinge on the film, and a light...
5784660 Mounting structure of a film passage forming plate for a photographic camera  
A photographic camera and method for assembling a photographic camera are disclosed. The photographic camera includes a novel mounting structure for a film passage forming plate, which may have...
5765042 One-time-use camera with matching indicia on camera exterior and film cassette  
A one-time-use camera comprises a film cartridge and a filmstrip, a lighttight camera body having an interior chamber for the film cartridge and an exterior cover portion for light-tightly sealing...
5758211 Compact flash camera with battery chamber  
A camera is provided in which the body is downsized as far as possible and which enables the incorporation of a large capacity power supply battery to be accomplished efficiently and compactly. A...
5754901 Apparatus to eliminate transverse in film  
A magnetic reading and/or recording apparatus comprises a magnetic reading and/or recording head for reading and/or recording information from/on a magnetic information track on a photosensitive...
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...
5754910 Camera having film contour aids  
A camera includes a body having a film roll chamber and a film cassette chamber which are oppositely disposed relative to an exposure chamber. A rear cover which lighttightly seals the camera body...
5752086 Lens-fitted photo film unit with supported film advance wheel  
A lens-fitted photo film unit has a cassette containing chamber and a photo film roll chamber. The cassette containing chamber contains a cassette. The cassette has a spool and a cassette shutter....
5745813 Camera provided with a rear surface switch  
A camera provided with a rear surface switch includes a pressure plate. The pressure plate maintains film in a flattened alignment within a film exposure region of the camera. An external cover...
5742431 Catadioptric lens system incorporating diffractive achromatization  
A catadioptric lens system may be operated in the telephoto mode to allow images of distant objects to be formed with large image plane magnification and be part of a camera body wherein a rear...
5740486 Camera having emergency cartridge taking-out function  
A camera, an apparatus, or a device adapted for the camera or the apparatus, arranged to use an image recording medium cartridge, is provided with a cover for closing an opening part from which the...
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...
5732302 Camera having deformable shock dampening members  
A camera such as a portable small-size camera includes a structural body composed of a plurality of integrally coupled functional components, including a lens barrel, an automatic focusing device,...
5729768 One-time use camera provided with frangible flash support destroyed by opening lighttight enclosure to remove exposed film  
A one-time-use camera comprises a film cartridge and a lighttight enclosure which contains the film cartridge and can be opened to remove the film cartridge. Further, the one-time-use camera has a...
5721963 Camera with specific exposure value and viewfinder field ratio ranges  
A camera including a photographing lens and a finder to provide a viewing image field through which an object can be observed. The field ratio of the viewfinder field to the photographed image...
5717967 Method and camera for writing hand-generated information on a filmstrip in the camera  
A filmstrip which has a substantially transparent magnetic layer is loaded into a camera. Successive sections of the filmstrip are moved inside the camera to locate corresponding sections of the...
5717969 Lens barrel with flexible printed circuit boards  
A lens barrel is provided with a lens group that can move against a camera main body, an electrical device that can move with the lens group, and a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards...
5717971 Photographic system film door locking mechanism and method  
A locking mechanism and method are provided for use in any photographic system which uses film cartridges. One embodiment includes a drive lever and an actuator which prevent movement of a slider...
5715486 Camera capable of interfacing with information input and display devices so to record information on a magnetic track of a film  
An advanced photo system (APS) camera includes a keyboard mounted on the inner surface of a rear cover hinged to the camera body. The camera also includes an LCD for displaying information entered...
D389848 Vehicular shaped camera  
5708898 Camera having a front cover  
A camera having a metallic front cover comprises a plastic inner cover to mount the front cover to a main body. The inner cover is provided with a step wall. Height of the step wall is more than...
5708897 Camera having a grip  
A camera having a front cover made of metal comprises a plastic inner cover to mount the front cover to a main body. The inner cover is provided with a grip portion integrally formed therewith. The...
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...
5708858 Photographic camera  
The photographic camera has a watertight housing (11, 12) in which a film transport and guide mechanism, a taking lens (15), a viewfinder (16), as well as a flash unit are accommodated. The novel...
5701531 Film feeding device  
A mechanism, for feeding a film with a photographing information magnetic recording area, of a camera. The camera including the mechanism has a cartridge holder inside which a film cartridge...
5697005 Cover assembly for apparatus  
A cover of an apparatus is composed of a metal part and a synthetic resin molded part. An edge part of the metal part located at a boundary between these cover parts is subjected to a brightening...
5697007 Apparatus provided with a cartridge indicating mechanism  
An apparatus is provided which comprises a cartridge chamber into which a film cartridge is loaded in the direction of its longitudinal axis, an eject member that can move between a housing...
5692221 Narrow profile lens-fitted film unit  
A lens-fitted film unit equipped with a built-in electronic flash device having a printed wiring board, formed with a flash circuit thereon and an aperture therein, which is located between a film...
5680650 Camera having internal support structure for red-eye prevention lamp  
An electronic part, specifically a red-eye prevention lamp, is suspended in a gap between immediately adjacent curved internal walls of a camera. The curved internal walls are those of a battery...
5678099 Small size camera assembly  
A small size camera assembly or micro-intelligent eye of the invention is formed of a spherical member operating as a rotor, a camera body embedded in the spherical member, and a driving device...
5678109 Camera interior light lock  
A camera includes a frame having a movably attached film engaging member including a metering pawl for engaging a contained filmstrip. A light locking cover attached to the frame prevents ambient...
5678110 Cartridge loading chamber of camera  
A camera loading chamber into which a film cartridge is loaded by dropping the cartridge into an opening of the camera against the urging force of an urging member. The film cartridge is held...
5671459 Camera cover guide mechanism  
A translatable cover coupled to a lighttight camera body is movable between a cantilevered open position and a closed position relative to the body. Guide pins provided on different surfaces of the...
5669024 Camera having a red-eye reduction lamp arranged with respect to a strobe light generating unit to provide a compact camera  
A camera including a built-in strobe light generating unit having a strobe capacitor and a red-eye reduction lamp to reduce red-eye phenomenon. The red-eye reduction lamp is positioned between the...
5669028 Camera effectively utilizing internal space for decreasing size  
A camera having a cartridge compartment therein loaded with a film cartridge having a spool shaft projecting from an upper portion of the film cartridge. A switch is located in a space formed by an...
5669027 Camera with light shielding barrel and stepped film chamber defining space for flash condenser  
A camera with a built-in flash light unit has a light shielding barrel of truncated cone shape and a stepped film cartridge chamber. The light shielding barrel is disposed to shield an optical path...
5666583 Camera having an automatically ejectable cartridge  
A cartridge holder engages with a cartridge holder driving gear driven by a driving force of an ejecting motor. The ejecting motor is controlled by a microcomputer so that ejecting is performed in...
5666582 Camera casing structure  
A camera casing structure for fixing thereto a tripod connecting member. A camera structure is described with a front cover having an inverted U-shaped first supporting member including a fitting...
5663762 Electronic viewer automatically adjusting magnification of a film image in accordance with position of the film image  
A cam cylinder is extended from a base member of a holder and is inserted into a guide cylinder secured to a main body. A lens mount including an optical system and a CCD is inserted into the cam...
5659825 Camera body  
A camera body adapted for use in a single lens reflex (SLR) camera which has a mirror box associated therewith and a mount to removably mount and slidably adjust the placement of the mirror box....
5659818 Camera having an illumination-angle varying mechanism for preventing a red-eye  
A camera has either a built-in flash unit or a removable attachable flash unit which is turnable between a retracted position and a projected position and which is provided with an...
5655171 Ultraminiature lens shutter camera and lens barrel thereof  
A lens shutter camera has light emitting and receiving sections for obtaining distance information. An optical section for performing photometry in an object field is disposed in a space between...
5655156 Apparatus and method for closing a camera body  
Apparatus is disclosed for closing a camera body of a type including a housing (10) for internal camera components, the housing including a cover part (12) and another part (14); and a plurality of...
5649235 Camera with molded resin and leather exterior  
A camera which has an exterior component formed into one piece from a leather material and a resin material. Further, on a surface portion of this exterior component, a groove having a depth in a...
5646712 Method and apparatus for opening a camera  
Apparatus (90) is disclosed for opening a camera of a type including a front cover part (12) and a back cover part (14), each of the front cover part and the back cover part having a top wall (34,...
5640638 Film feed mechanism for photographic camera  
A photographic camera has a magazine chamber in which a film magazine is loaded, a film take-up chamber and a lens barrel unit which supports a taking lens system and is disposed between the...
5640641 Camera cover release mechanism  
A camera includes a lighttight body portion and a cover having an interior recess sized for receiving an end of said body portion. The cover is coupled to the body portion and is movable in...
5640628 Photographic camera  
A photographic camera has a recording system which records an instruction on printing of each exposure frame of a photographic film in a predetermined area of a film. That a photographer's finger...