ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,625, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Lens barrel and imaging apparatus" was invented by Ichiro Imaei (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to reduce the noise of a lens barrel, the lens barrel includes a plurality of diaphragm blades, a driver driving the plurality of diaphragm blades, a first opening member that holds the driver, a second opening member including a plurality of facing portions opposed to the first opening member in an optical axis direction, and a plurality of buffer members disposed between the first opening member and the plurality of facing portions, respectively, wherein the plu...