Patent ID: 7426339
Filing Date: 2008-09-16
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
1. A waterproof housing for storing a camera having a lens barrel comprising: a cylindrical lens barrel storage section for storing part of the lens barrel having a through hole which communicates the outside and the inside of the waterproof housing and a rotatable cylindrical operation ring supported on an outer periphery of the cylindrical lens barrel storage section and provided so as to enclose an outer periphery of a rotary ring on the stored lens barrel for rotating the same; a transmitting member provided in the through hole formed on an outer peripheral wall of the cylindrical lens barrel storage section to be connected to the rotary ring for directly transmitting rotation of the operation ring thereto; and a waterproof member provided between the outside of the cylindrical lens barrel storage section and an inner periphery of the operation ring for achieving waterproof between the inside and the outside of the cylindrical lens barrel storage section.