Abstract:
A zoom lens barrel includes a linear guide ring; a moving frame having a male helicoid; a rotatable ring coupled to the linear guide ring; a female helicoid formed on the rotatable ring, and engaged with the male helicoid; a switching ring coupled to the rotatable ring; a switching member; and a switching-member moving groove including a first inclined section, a switching section, a second inclined section and an assembling section. The lead angle of the first inclined section is the same but has an opposite inclination to that of the female helicoid. The follower projection is inserted in the first inclined section. The switching section extends parallel to the optical axis. The second inclined section extends parallel to the first inclined section. The assembling section extends rearwards from a front end of the second inclined section to be parallel to the optical axis.
Abstract:
A step-zoom lens includes two movable lens groups; a lens group support unit; and a cam ring having a cam groove. The cam groove includes a finite number of focal-length steps, so as to perform a focusing operation between infinite and closest photographing positions at each focal-length step. The cam groove includes a wide-angle mode section, a telephoto mode section, and a mode switching section. The closest photographing positions in two adjacent focal-length steps and the infinite photographing positions in two adjacent focal-length steps are adjacent to each other, respectively. One focal-length step of the infinite photographing position at a longest focal length in the wide-angle mode section is provided at one end of the mode switching section, and another focal-length step of the infinite photographing position at a shortest focal length in the telephoto mode section is provided at the other end.
Abstract:
A lens distance-varying mechanism for varying a distance between first and second lens groups includes a first lens frame; a second lens frame rotatable relative to the first lens frame; a relative-moving mechanism for moving the first and second lens frames to change a relative position therebetween on an optical axis when the second lens frame is positioned at each of forward and reverse rotation extremities thereof relative to the first lens frame; a differential linking ring which rotates together with the second lens frame; a differential ring which is rotated relative to the differential linking ring by a first angle of rotation greater than a second angle of rotation of the second lens frame relative to the first lens frame; and a biasing member, positioned between the differential ring and the differential linking ring, for absorbing a difference between the first and second angles of rotation.
Abstract:
A cam mechanism for a lens barrel includes an annular member which is linearly guided along an optical axis, and having a cam follower on an outer peripheral surface; a cam ring having a cam groove on an inner peripheral surface including a photographing section and an accommodation section, the cam follower being engaged in the cam groove; and a biasing device for biasing the annular member forward to normally press the cam follower against a front cam surface in the cam groove. A rear end portion of the cam groove is open at a rear end surface of the cam ring to serve as the accommodation section, and the cam follower is disengageable from the front cam surface in the cam groove against a biasing force of the biasing device when the cam follower is engaged in the accommodation section.
Abstract:
A light shielding structure of a lens barrel including an inner ring and an outer ring, wherein the inner ring includes a through cutout portion, the light shielding structure including an inner flange wall provided with the inner ring; a first annular groove formed on an inner surface of the inner flange wall; a second annular groove formed on an inner peripheral surface of the outer ring; and a light shield ring, wherein the light shield ring includes a cylindrical portion centered about the optical axis, and an outer flange portion which extends radially outwards from a rear end of the cylindrical portion so that the cylindrical portion and the outer flange portion and inserted into the first and second annular grooves, respectively.