Patent · US Expired

Zoom lens barrel and camera

US6459537B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 30, 2001
Grant dateOct 1, 2002
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Expiry dateJan 30, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B15/142
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A zoom lens barrel which is an integrated zoom and focus drive type zoom lens barrel that moves lens units on a single zoom line having plurality of focusing sections and plurality of zooming sections, wherein the single zoom line has characteristic that the “rate of change of the relative distance of the two lens units with regard to a barrel rotation angle” in each focusing section becomes smaller in the focusing sections of the telephoto side.

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