Patent ID: 6791604
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: B41J,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
A printer-incorporated electronic camera capable of printing an image of an image-captured object onto a printing paper and transporting the printed paper to the outside of a case of a camera main body, the electronic camera comprising:a paper exit opening for removing the printed paper provided on the upper surface of the case of the camera main body as viewed from the front side of the camera main body; a protection sheet having a base end fixed to the inside of the paper exit opening, with a free end excluding the base end revertible to a wound-up roll shape retracted inside the case, and capable of being extended by the front end of the printed paper when the printed paper is transported from the case to the outside so that the protection sheet covers the photosensitive surface of the paper; and an open-and-close lid having one end edge of a square plate axially supported to be rotatable to the case so that the paper exit opening is closed from the outside of the case when the protection sheet is retracted within the case in its wound-up roll shape.