Patent ID: 8605373

Claim:
A lens barrel constructed in such a manner that an electrical component disposed in the lens barrel is electrically connected to a circuit board of a camera body, comprising: a fixed cylinder; a tubular movable member held on the fixed cylinder and adapted to move a lens group in an optical axis direction; an FPC having an upstream end thereof connected to the electrical component, and a downstream end thereof connected to the camera body; and an FPC fixing member disposed radially away from the movable member and adapted to fixedly mount the FPC, wherein: the fixed cylinder includes a positioning portion for passing the FPC therethrough and adapted to position the FPC; the FPC includes: an attachment portion to be attached to a side wall of the FPC fixing member at a specified position closer to the downstream end than the upstream end, a first bending portion having an outer periphery thereof directed from the attachment portion toward the upstream end and bent in such a direction as to face the attachment portion, and a second bending portion bent in such a direction as to intersect the attachment portion at a specified position closer to the downstream end than the first bending portion, and guided to the positioning portion; and wherein the FPC is urged toward an object side at the positioning portion.