Camera having label including optical component

• US 6,259,861 B1
• Filed: 07/26/1999
• Issued: 07/10/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Smith, Stephen J., Boyd, James D., Cramer, Michael P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gray, David M.
• Application Number:
  US09/361,637
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• Field of Search: 396/6, 396/373, 396/382, 396/529, 396/530, 396/531, 396/533, 396/535, 396/25, 396/26, 396/27, 396/29
• US Class Current: 396/6
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 19/04 Roll-film cameras

Abstract

A camera has a body defining a passage. A label has an attachment portion adhered to the body and an optical component joined to the attachment portion. The optical component is optically aligned with the passage.

Claims

1. A camera comprising

a body defining a passage;

a label including a compliant attachment portion adhesively adhered to said body and a centered optical component joined directly to said attachment portion, said centered optical component defining an optical axis optically aligned with said passage.

2. The camera of claim 1 wherein said optical component is inseparable from said attachment portion without damage to said optical component.

3. The camera of claim 1 wherein said attachment portion and said optical component are of one-piece.

4. camera of claim 1 wherein said optical component is adhesively adhered to said attachment portion.

5. The camera of claim 1 wherein said optical component has a power.

6. The camera of claim 1 wherein said optical component has fiducials.

7. The camera of claim 1 wherein said optical component is a fresnel lens.

8. The camera of claim 1 wherein said camera has a viewfinder frame surrounding said passage and said optical component is a viewfinder lens disposed in alignment with said viewfinder frame.

9. The camera of claim 1 wherein said passage has first and second opposed ends and said label includes first and second optical components, and optical components being disposed in respective said ends, said optical components having a common optical axis.

10. The camera of claim 1 wherein said passage has an inner end and an outer end, said body includes a film counter disposed at said inner end, and said optical component is a magnifier disposed at said outer end.

11. The camera of claim 1 wherein said passage has an inner end and an outer end, said body includes a flash reflector disposed at said inner end, and said optical component is a lens disposed at said outer end in optical alignment with said reflector.

12. A camera comprising

a body defining a plurality of passages;

label including a compliant attachment portion adhesively adhered to said body and a plurality of optical components optically aligned with respective said passages, at least one of said optical components being adhesively adhered to said attachment portion.

13. The camera of claim 12 wherein said body includes a film counter disposed interior to one of said passages, and one of said optical components is a magnifier optically aligned with said film counter.

14. The camera of claim 13 wherein said body includes a flash unit having a reflector, one of said passages extends to said reflector, and one of said optical components is a lens optically aligned with said reflector.

15. The camera of claim 14 wherein said camera has a viewfinder frame and one of said passages extends through said viewfinder frame, and a pair of said optical components are front and rear viewfinder lenses disposed in optical alignment with said viewfinder frame.

16. The camera of claim 12 wherein said camera has a viewfinder frame and one of said passages extends through said viewfinder frame, and a pair of said optical components are front and rear viewfinder lenses disposed in optical alignment with said viewfinder frame.

17. The camera of claim 12 wherein said body includes a flash unit having a reflector, one of said passages extends to said reflector, and one of said optical components is a lens optically aligned with said reflector.

18. The camera of claim 12 wherein at least one of said optical components has a power.

19. The camera of claim 12 wherein at least one of said optical components has fiducials.

20. A camera comprising

a body defining a passage;

a label including an attachment portion adhesively adhered to said body and an optical component joined to said attachment portion, said optical component being optically aligned with said passage;

wherein said optical component is adhesively adhered to said attachment portion.

21. The camera of claim 20 wherein said optical component has a power.

22. The camera of claim 21 wherein said attachment portion is compliant.

23. The camera of claim 20 wherein said label is compliant.

24. A camera comprising

a body defining a passage;

a label including a compliant attachment portion adhered to said body and an optical component joined directly to said attachment portion, said optical component having a power and defining an optical axis optically aligned with said passage.

25. A camera comprising

a body defining a passage;

a label including a compliant attachment portion adhered to said body and an optical component joined to said attachment portion, said optical component having a power, said optical component being disposed in said passage.

26. A camera comprising

a body defining a passage, said body having a cover;

a label including an attachment portion adhered to said body and an optical component joined to said attachment portion, said optical component being optically aligned with said passage and interior to said cover.

27. The camera of claim 26 wherein said optical component has a power.

28. The camera of claim 26 wherein said attachment portion is compliant.

29. The camera of claim 26 wherein said attachment portion and said optical component are of one-piece.