US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Nov. 4 for "Lens barrel and camera equipped with same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,331, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lens barrel and camera equipped with same" was invented by Fumio Shinano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens barrel (10) comprises a lens mount (23), a fifth lens group unit (17), a cam frame (13), a cam pin (17c), a cam pin holder (17b), a main shaft (17g), and an urging spring (17f). The cam frame 13 encloses the fifth lens group unit 17, and has a cam groove 13a. The cam pin 17c moves in the optical axis direction in a state of being engaged with the cam groove 13a. The cam pin holder 17b is provided to the fi...