Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP
Camera accessory and camera
The camera accessory is attachable to a camera. The camera accessory includes an accessory mount to be detachably coupled with a camera mount). The accessory mount is provided with accessory bayonet claws and brought, by relative rotation with the camera mount, from a first state in which each of the accessory bayonet claws is inserted between camera bayonet claws provided in the camera mount into a second state in which the accessory bayonet claws engage with the camera bayonet claws to complete coupling of the accessory and camera mounts. The camera accessory is further provided with accessory contact surfaces arranged in a relative rotation direction of the mounts in the accessory mount. The accessory contact surfaces includes a first accessory contact surface used for indicating type of the camera accessory and is provided adjacent to the accessory bayonet claw.
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Azusa Yoshihiko Tatsuyuki Hiroshi Takashi Tetsuya
Sugawara Konno Tokunaga Kikuchi Hasegawa Nishio