Abstract: A focal plane shutter for a camera comprises opening and closing blade units operable to open and close a shutter opening of the camera. Each blade unit has a leading blade and trailing blades in superposed relation to the leading blade. The leading blade and the trailing blades are supported by arm members through hollow pivot pins. The hollow pivot pins supporting the leading blade of each blade unit are covered by the trailing blades. Due to the use of hollow pivot pins, the overall weight and driving force of the blade units are effectively reduced to thereby make the shutter free of operational impact without light leakage.

Abstract: A focal plane shutter has at least one shutter blade group comprised of a leading blade and a set of trailing blades. A first parallel link mechanism is pivotally connected at two spaced locations to the leading blade to effect displacement of the leading blade relative to a shutter opening. A second parallel link mechanism is pivotally connected at two or more spaced locations to the set of trailing blades to effect displacement of the trailing blades relative to the shutter opening. The distance between the two pivotal connections of the first parallel link mechanism is greater than the distance between the at least two pivotal connections of the second parallel link mechanism.

Abstract: A focal-plane shutter for a camera includes two shutter blades each of which comprises two opaque plates. At least one of the two plates has a slit and is held at two points by two arms such that the plates move like a pantograph. The arms are pivotally mounted by eccentric pins to provide for adjusting the parallelism of the blades.

Abstract: A focal-plane shutter for use in a camera. The shutter has a driving lever which can be driven with a substantially uniform force. The shutter comprises a closing member for actuating closing blades, the driving lever that urges the closing member to perform an exposure operation, a tension spring connecting the driving lever with the closing member, a brake lever, and an anchoring lever. The brake lever has a retaining portion that retains the closing member in its exposure end position. The anchoring lever has an anchoring portion which, when the closing member is in its exposure end position, moves out of the operating range of the closing member.

Abstract: A camera system of the type having a lens shutter, a focal-plane shutter, an aperture defined by the lens shutter, and a camera lens, includes a selector circuit which sets an operation mode to either a lens shutter mode in which the lens shutter is operated as a programmed shutter or a focal-plane shutter mode in which the shutter speed is controlled by the focal-plane shutter and the aperture of the camera system is controlled by the lens shutter; a first driving system which controls the lens shutter; a second driving system which controls the time during which the focal-plane shutter is operated; a sequential control circuit which controls the timing of the first and second driving systems; a setting circuit which sets the focal length of the camera lens; an arithmetic circuit which produces an output signal in response to the brightness of the subject, the distance to the subject, the focal length of the lens and the sensitivity of the film; and a switching circuit which switches the operation mode to th

Abstract: A focal-plane shutter for a camera includes two shutter blades each of which comprises two opaque plates. At least one of the two plates has a slit and is held at two points by two arms such that the plates move like a pantograph. The arms are pivotally mounted by eccentric pins to provide for adjusting the parallelism of the blades.

Abstract: A focal plane shutter camera including a first chamber forming section having a baseplate with a shutter opening formed therein and which accommodates shutter blades and including a second chamber forming section which accommodates shutter controlling members. A lower plate structure member is assembled to a baseplate structure member and is provided with a lower plate for partitioning the first and second chambers.

Abstract: A camera having a focal plane shutter comprising two sets of blades which are movable to form a slit which opens a shutter aperture includes a body formed from a plastic material. A rail plate having a plurality of film guide rails is attached to the camera body. A plurality of drive shafts are provided on the camera body or the rail plate for supporting at least the blades. The camera body and the rail plate define therebetween a space in which the blades are housed.

Abstract: A focal-plane shutter base for use in a camera includes a base plate having a shutter opening. Two sets of blades, each of which consists of a plurality of sheets for blocking light, are mounted on the base plate at one side of the shutter opening. The blades are covered by a cover plate connected to the base plate. Driving members for driving the blades are supported on shafts connected to the base plate. The base plate has a shield portion extending along the outer periphery thereof for preventing unwanted light from entering from the sides of the base plate, and a frame portion surrounding the shutter opening for blocking unwanted light from reaching the shutter opening and for structurally reinforcing the base plate. The base plate, shafts, shield portion and frame portion are all integrally molded from plastic.

Abstract: A focal plane shutter for a camera comprising two sets of parallel blades positioned between the plane of a lens in the camera and the plane of a film set therein and in a parallel relation thereto. These sets of blades are movable in opposite directions between a first position in which they are unfolded to close a shutter aperture and a second position in which they are folded to form a slit to open the shutter aperture. Every two adjoining blades in each set of blades has a smaller overlapping width in their first position than in their second position. This overlapping width in the first position is smaller between two adjoining blades closer to the lens plane than between two adjoining blades closer to the film plane.

Abstract: This invention relates to an electronic shutter of a camera provided with a fail-safe system. An electromagnet is connected to the output of an electronic delay circuit. An armature lever moves in the direction to separate from the electromagnet to effectuate the shutter closing operation when the electromagnet is demagnetized. A shutter regulating member starts operation as it is released from restraint in connection with a shutter release operation to cancel a force pressing the armature lever against the electromagnet and to effectuate the shutter opening operation. A stopping means is provided for the shutter regulating member and the armature lever. The stopping means is capable of interrupting the movement of the shutter regulating member and the armature lever before the shutter opening and the shutter closing operation is started.

Abstract: A camera shutter mechanism comprises a shutter actuating lever movable between a cocked position and a rest position to actuate a part of the camera shutter mechanism, and a cocking lever having an abutting portion for abutting the actuating lever to move the latter from the rest position thereof into the cocked position thereof. The cocking lever and the actuating lever together include a locking mechanism which releasably locks the actuating lever in the rest position. The locking mechanism and the abutting portion are arranged so that when the actuating lever approaches its rest position, it engages the abutting portion so as to rotate the cocking lever into a position in which the locking mechanism locks the actuating lever.

Abstract: In a shutter control device provided with shutter blades pivoted on a 1st base-plate with film exposure opening, a control mechanism provided on the side of the opening of said 1st base-plate, a 2nd base-plate having a supporting flat surface disposed with said control mechanism thereon, and an auxiliary base-plate covering said control mechanism disposed on said 2nd base-plate. At least one of the 1st and 2nd base plates is comprised of synthetic resin.

Abstract: In an automatic focusing camera, a shutter blade control device comprises a first movable actuating member for controlling a focusing member, a second movable actuating member for controlling a shutter blade control member and a delay device mounted on one of the two actuating members and engaged with the other actuating member to regulate the movement of the two actuating members with respect to each other. In operation, one actuating member is held stationary and the movement of the other is under the action of the delay device. Thereafter, the other actuating member is stationary and the one actuating member moves under the action of the delay device.

Abstract: A camera shutter has a control member movable when the shutter is released for successively actuating an opening member and a closing member to effect the taking of an exposure. A delay mechanism coacts with the control member to effect the selective setting of a range of exposure times including a minimum exposure time by which the control member actuates the opening and closing members without interaction of the delay mechanism, a next to the minimum exposure time by which the control member engages with the delay mechanism prior to actuating the opening and closing members, and one or more longer exposure times by which the control member actuates the opening member and then engages with the delay mechanism prior to actuating the closing member.

Abstract: In an automatic focusing camera having a shutter control member for controlling the shutter mechanism and a focusing member for regulating the position of the camera lens, an actuating member is provided for controlling the focusing member and the shutter control member. The actuating member is a single slidably mounted element which is movable between a charged position and a rest position and is biased into the rest position. The actuating member actuates the focusing member in the initial stage of movement from the charged position to the rest position and actuates the shutter control member in the final stage of the movement to the rest position.

Abstract: An automatic focusing camera capable of automatically focusing the photographic lens thereof by a system actuated by a signal produced by a focus detection circuit when the distance between the object to be photographed by the camera is detected includes an exposure control device comprising an exposure control circuit and an electromagnet. A photographic lens focusing member is movable in response to the shutter release operation and is stopped in response to the magnetizing of the electromagnet. An exposure device is actuated to open to start the exposure after the photographic lens focusing member is stopped, and is closed in response to the demagnetizing of the electromagnet which occurs upon the receipt thereof of the exposure completion signal generated by the exposure control circuit. In this way, a common electromagnet is used for both the focus control and the exposure control to simplify the construction of the camera and to reduce the cost thereof.

Abstract: A control device for the shutter of a camera comprises an opening member for opening a shutter aperture to initiate taking of an exposure, a closing member for closing the aperture to complete the exposure, and opening and closing pawls for respectively retaining the opening and closing members at their charged position. A control member actuated during the shutter release motion releases the engagement of the opening pawl from the opening member, and a governor is provided for delaying the operation of the control member. An interlock lever is actuated by the opening member to release the engagement of the closing pawl from the closing member, and an exposure time setting cam is provided for adjustably setting the motion of the governor so as to shift the interlock lever between its working position and rest position.

Abstract: An exposure time setting device is provided for effecting the exposure time for the shutter in response to the dial position of an exposure time setting dial disposed on an upper surface of a camera and movable in an operating plane. The device is provided with a control mechanism movable in a given plane perpendicular to the operating plane for opening and closing the shutter, a governor mechanism movable in the given plane for delaying operation of the control mechanism and an exposure time setting cam movable, in response to movement of the dial, within a plane parallel to the operating plane and perpendicular to the given plane.