Camera provided with electromagnetic drive source
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuaki Date, Yoji Sugiura, Ryoichi Suzuki, Takashi Uchiyama
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Abstract
In a camera provided with an electromagnetic drive source when energized producing an electromagnetic force by which the shutter is driven to move, the above-described electromagnetic force of drive source is used only as the power of driving the shutter, while an electromagnetic device which is controlled by a shutter closing signal is provided, so that an initiation of returning movement of the mirror and automatic diaphragm and of lock releasing operation of the film transporting mechanism is controlled by said electromagnetic device.
Claims9
A camera with an electromagnetically driven shutter, comprising:
- (a) electromagnetic drive sources for opening and closing said shutter by electromagnetic forces, said electromagnetic drive sources being used only as the drive source for the shutter;
- (b) an automatic diaphragm device for performing a closing down operation and its returning operation, said device performing the closing down operation in response to a release actuation;
- (c) control means for performing drive control of said electromagnetic drive sources, said means operating in response to a release actuation;
- (d) signal forming means for producing a signal in response to a closing operation of the shutter;
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- (e) an electromagnetic device of which the operation is controlled by the signal from said signal forming means, said electromagnetic device causing the returning operation of the automatic diaphragm device to be initiated.
A single lens reflex camera with an electromagnetically driven shutter, comprising:
- (a) a shutter leading member and a shutter trailing member;
- (b) a first electromagnetic drive source for moving said shutter leading member;
- (c) a second electromagnetic drive source for moving said shutter trailing member;
- (d) control means for driving said second electromagnetic drive source in a certain time interval from the driving of the first electromagnetic drive source, said means being actuated in response to a release actuation;
- (e) automatic diaphragm device for performing a closing down operation and its returning operation, said device performing the closing down operation in response to the release actuation;
- (f) mirror drive control means for performing an upward movement and a returning movement of the mirror, said means performing the mirror up operation in response to the release actuation;
- (g) signal forming means for producing a signal in response to an actuation of the shutter trailing member;
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- (h) an electromagnetic device of which the operation is controlled by the signal from said signal forming means, said electromagnetic device initiating a returning operation of the automatic diaphragm device and the mirror drive control means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.