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US 6,324,348 B1Granted
Camera
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Terada
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Abstract
A camera body constructed in such a manner that a front board unit, a shutter unit, and a main body unit are attached to a body plate unit from a rear face of the body plate unit. The body plate unit is a rigid board in a plane substantially perpendicular to an optical axis of a taking lens unit, which taking lens unit is attached to the body plate unit from a front face of the body plate unit.
Claims2
A camera comprising:
- a rigid board;
- a main body unit formed of a molded plastic material, the main body unit being mounted on one side of the rigid board;
- a taking lens unit mounted on another side of the rigid board, wherein an optical axis of the taking lens unit is substantially perpendicular to the rigid board;
- a first casing unit for covering the main body unit, the first casing unit abutting the main body unit;
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- a second casing unit for covering the taking lens unit, the second casing unit being fastened to the first casing unit by screws and abutting the rigid board to prevent the rigid board from moving along an axis perpendicular to the optical axis of the photo-taking lens unit, wherein:
- a block including the rigid board, the main body unit and the taking lens unit is caught between the first and second casing units,
- the second casing unit includes a plurality of protrusions for engagement with the rigid board,
- the rigid board includes a plurality of bores, and
- the plurality of protrusions include:
- a plurality of bosses, each boss being received by a corresponding one of the plurality of bores, and
- a plurality of fitting projections for abutment against an opposing surface of the rigid board.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.