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Title:
LENS DRIVER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2002162556
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a lens driver with which prescribed zoom values and arbitrary aperture values are combined and set, using a simple constitution.

A lens barrel 1, into which this lens driver is built, has a cam ring 3 which is fitted turnably to a stationary frame 2, first and second group lens frames 4 and 5 which are fitted advanceably and retreatably into the cam ring 3 and an aperture ring 6 which is turnably supported at the first group lens frame 4. The cam ring 3 is provided with diagonal cam grooves, which drive the lens frames 4 and 5 to stepwise zooming positions, circumferential cam grooves which are held in the respective zoom positions and the aperture cam grooves which drive the aperture ring 6. The lens frames 4 and 5 turn the cam ring 3 in a state of being fixed and positioned to the respective zoom positions and turn the aperture rings 6, thereby enabling setting the aperture value of a photographic lens.


Inventors:
TAKANASHI TATSUO
ITO JUNICHI
Application Number:
JP2000361714A
Publication Date:
June 07, 2002
Filing Date:
November 28, 2000
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO
International Classes:
G02B7/08; G02B7/02; G02B7/04; G02B7/10; G03B9/02; G03B9/06; H04N5/225; H04N5/232; (IPC1-7): G02B7/08; G02B7/02; G02B7/04; G02B7/10; G03B9/02; G03B9/06; H04N5/225; H04N5/232
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Susumu Ito