Patent ID: 6157482
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
Binoculars comprising:a pair of body units having a lens, respectively, and relatively movable between a first position in which the body units are not used and a second position in which the body units are usable;lens cover members so provided as to be movable between a protective position in which, at the fronts of the body units, the lens is not exposed to an outside and a retracted position in which, at the fronts of the body units, the lens is exposed to the outside; anda lens cover member control mechanism which, when the body units are set to the not-used state corresponding to the first position, latches the lens covers to the protective position and, when the body units are moved from the first position to the usable position corresponding to the second position, releases the latching of the lens cover members in interlock with the movement of the body units to move the lens cover members to the retracted position.