Patent ID: 6219495
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: G03B,H05K

Abstract:
A camera having a camera body in which an automatic focusing device, a flash device and a film feed device which feeds a film by an electric motor are housed therein, comprising:at least a planar first circuit board and a second circuit boards each having mounting surfaces on which control circuits for controlling said devices are mounted, wherein,said second circuit board is disposed so as to extend in a longitudinal direction of the camera body, and said first circuit board is disposed along an internal side surface of said camera body in such a manner that the mounting surface of said first circuit board is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of said camera body and faces inside the camera body, andsaid first circuit board comprises a first portion and a second portion which is wider than said first portion in a direction parallel to the mounting surface of said second circuit board and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the camera body, andsaid first and second circuit boards are electrically connected to each other by engaging an engaging portion formed on said second portion of said first circuit board with a complementary engaging portion formed on said second circuit board, andthe mounting surface and the complementary engaging portion of the second circuit are in the same plane.