Strobe device
AssigneesNissin Industries Ltd., Chikara Goto
InventorTak Wah Shum
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Abstract
In an electrically-operated zooming strobe device of a lens moving type, to prevent damage to the zooming drive device even if an external force acts on the lens holder in the front-rear direction, a lens holder (26) having a lens (68) on a front side thereof is mounted on a strobe main body 24 having light emitting part (36) such that the lens holder is movable in the front-rear direction, and the strobe main body (24) is provided with a zooming drive device (47) including a movable member (44) driven by an electric motor (48) in the front-rear direction, wherein the movable member (44) and the lens holder (26) are connected to each other by a magnetic force of magnet pieces (62, 78) attached to the movable member (44) and the lens holder (26).
Claims8
A strobe device comprising a strobe main body having a light emitting part, and a lens holder mounted on the strobe main body so as to be movable in a front-rear direction and having a lens on a front side thereof, characterized in that the strobe device comprises:
- a zooming drive device provided in the strobe main body and including a movable member driven by an electric motor in the front-rear direction;
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- a magnet piece(s) attached to at least one of the movable member and the lens holder to connect the movable member and the lens holder to each other by a magnetic force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.