US Patent Issued to NIDEC PRECISION, FUJIFILM on Sept. 22 for "Camera and switch" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,010, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NIDEC PRECISION Corp. (Tokyo) and FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Camera and switch" was invented by Yusuke Akamatsu (Tokyo), Tomihiro Wakayama (Tokyo) and Akihiro Hashiguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera includes a lens, and aperture blades. The aperture blades are movable between a minimum aperture position at which the aperture blades generate vignetting at a periphery of the photographing area and a maximum aperture position radially outward from the minimum aperture position. The camera further includes a switch including an operation lever movable through a user operation and ...