G03B 17/425
Motor drive cameras
Official title: {motor drive cameras}
G03B17/425 (Motor drive cameras) appears on 744 US grants and 35 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03B- Granted patents
- 744
- Published applications
- 35
- Assignees
- 66
- Inventors
- 679
- Latest grant
- 23 Jun 2026
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| 2024 | 3 | 2 |
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Light shielding unit and lens barrel equipped with the same23 Jun 2026US 12,663,693 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Optical element driving device1 Apr 2025US 12,267,572 B1Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
- Optical element driving device, camera module, and camera-equipped device31 Dec 2024US 12,184,962 B2Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
- Light shielding unit and lens barrell provided with same9 Apr 2024US 11,953,820 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Fin shaped underwater camera housing and system incorporating same9 Jan 2024US 11,871,096 B2
- Light shielding unit and lens barrel equipped with the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277076 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Optical element driving device13 Mar 2025US 2025/0088725 A1Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
- Fin Shaped Underwater Camera Housing and System Incorporating Same2 May 2024US 2024/0147034 A1
- Light shielding unit and lens barrel equipped with the same21 Mar 2024US 2024/0094604 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Optical element driving device, camera module, and camera-equipped device15 Jun 2023US 2023/0185170 A1Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Camera113US 5,107,290 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1992
- Control device for use in a camera having a consecutive picture taking mode and a single picture taking mode99US 4,956,656 AMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha · 1990
- Control device for use in a camera system96US 4,763,153 AMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha · 1988
- Electronically controlled camera with automatic release mode and interval time setting91US 5,345,288 AAsahi Kogaku Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994
- Means for controlling driving of a driving fork and take-up spool for automatic feeding and rewinding of a film in a camera62US 5,543,877 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1996