Camera having a miniaturized exterior shape
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshihiro Yokomae, Toshifumi Nakano
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Abstract
A camera is provided which has a back cover for opening and closing an aperture, a spool chamber and a cassette chamber. A battery chamber for housing a battery is disposed on a supporting shaft side of the back cover, and the aforementioned battery chamber is present obliquely behind the cassette chamber inside the camera when the back cover is in a closed state. A part of the battery chamber protrudes from the back face of the back cover. Therefore, the exterior shape of the camera can be miniaturized and downsized without hindering loading of a film cassette. Further, since the battery chamber portion protruding from the back cover can be made to function as a grip portion of the camera, a camera superior in portability and favorable in holdability is provided.
Claims19
A camera comprising:
- a cassette chamber adapted to house a film cassette;
- a cover member for opening and closing an aperture of said cassette chamber;
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- an electric component housing portion which is disposed on said cover member and which is adapted to house an electric component positioned within a trajectory of loading and unloading of the film cassette itself to and from said cassette chamber in a state where said cover member is closed,
- wherein said electric component housing portion is adapted to stay outside said trajectory in a state where said cover member is opened, and
- wherein said electric component housing portion is provided approximately rearward of said cassette chamber in the state where said cover member is closed.
A camera comprising:
- a cassette chamber adapted to house a film cassette in a state where a film pullout portion of the film cassette is at a prescribed inclination to an aperture of the camera;
- a cover member for opening and closing said cassette chamber, said cover member having an exterior surface formed approximately parallel to said aperture;
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- an electric parts housing portion provided on said cover member and disposed in a space defined by said exterior surface of said cover member, the film pullout portion of the film cassette housed in said cassette chamber, and a side portion of the camera,
- wherein said electric parts housing portion is positioned within a trajectory of loading and unloading of the film cassette itself to and from said cassette chamber in a state where said cover member is closed,
- wherein said electric parts housing portion is adapted to stay outside said trajectory in a state where said cover member is opened, and
- wherein said electric parts housing portion is provided approximately rearward of said cassette chamber in the state where said cover member is closed.
A camera comprising:
- a cassette chamber adapted to house a film cassette;
- a spool chamber of an approximately cylindrical shape for winding and housing a film in the film cassette housed in said cassette chamber;
- a cover member for opening and closing apertures of said cassette chamber and said spool chamber;
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- an electric component housing portion which is disposed on said cover member, and which is adapted to house an electric component,
- wherein said electric component housing portion is provided at a position so as to stay away from a tip position of the film upon said film being loaded into the film cassette when said cover member is in an open position, and
- wherein said electric component housing portion is provided approximately rearward of said spool chamber when said cover member is in a closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.