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US 5,208,622 AGranted
Holding mechanism for a camera
AssigneeAsahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKiyoshi Kawano
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Abstract
In a camera provided with an operational unit including a plurality of operational components of the camera assembled therein and mounted on one side of a taking lens barrel of the camera, an opening portion for holding the camera is formed below the operational unit and extended to the a bottom surface of the taking lens barrel, and thus the taking lens, the heaviest component of all of the camera, can be surely supported at the lower portion thereof.
Claims11
A camera comprising:
- a camera body comprising means for receiving film;
- a photographing lens projecting forwardly from said camera body and defining a photographing lens barrel, said photographing lens barrel having bottom and lateral side portions;
- at least one operating element for operating said camera;
- integrated operating units positioned at a front portion of said photographing lens barrel such that a center of gravity of said camera lies between said camera body and the front portion of said photographing lens barrel;
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- a handhold in an area of the center of gravity, said handhold comprising a lateral opening for a vertically oriented thumb of an operator, said lateral opening projecting upwardly from said bottom portion of said lens barrel and extending inwardly from a lateral side of said lens barrel, a side of said lens barrel opposite said lateral opening comprising means for supporting said operating element to be within reach of remaining fingers of an operator's hand when the thumb is received within said lateral opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.