Patent ID: 8521018

Claim:
A built-in flash pop-out mechanism of a camera, comprising: a shaft member linearly movable along a first axis; an arm member where one end is pivotally fixed at a tip end of the shaft member about a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis; a flash support member that is pivotally fixed at the other end of the arm member about a third axis that is parallel to the second axis; a first biasing member biasing the shaft member along the first axis; a second biasing member biasing the arm member about the second axis against the shaft member; a third biasing member biasing the flash support member about the third axis against the arm member; and the built-in flash being extended from a camera body with coplanar motions that pop out the built-in flash to increase its distance from an optical axis of a lens, the motions comprising a translation of the shaft member along the first axis by the first biasing member, a rotation of the arm member about the second axis by the second biasing member and a rotation of the flash support member about the third axis by the third biasing member.