Patents Examined by Chirstopher K Peterson
  • Patent number: 8400563
    Abstract: A digital camera of the present invention has: an optical housing having a bending optical system for reflecting photographic object light entering along a first optical axis to a second optical axis direction perpendicular to the first optical axis to form an image on an image pickup device; a camera main body having a containing portion for containing the optical housing slidably only in the second optical axis direction and having support portions for supporting the optical housing provided on each of both sides surfaces of the containing portion across the second optical axis of the bending optical system; and a shock absorbing unit provided between an inner surface of the containing portion of the camera main body in which the support portions are not provided and an outer surface of the optical housing facing thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventor: Shuhei Kaneko