Patent ID: 8790023

Claim:
A movable mirror shock-absorbing mechanism of a camera, comprising: a movable mirror which is supported to be rotatable between a viewfinder light-guiding position, in which said movable mirror is positioned in a photographing optical path to reflect incident light from an object toward a viewfinder optical system, and a retracted position, in which said movable mirror is retracted from said photographing optical path to allow said object light to travel toward a photographic light-receiving medium; a first mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member which comes into contact with, and is pressed and moved by, said movable mirror when said movable mirror rotates from said viewfinder light-guiding position to said retracted position; a second mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member which supports said first mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member in a manner to allow said first mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member to relative to said second mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member, wherein, when said movable mirror rotates from said viewfinder light-guiding position to said retracted position, firstly said second mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member permits said first mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member to move solely in a pressing-moving direction in which said first mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member is pressed and moved by said movable mirror, and subsequently said second mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member is moved with said first mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member in said pressing-moving direction; a biaser which biases each of said first mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member and said second mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member in a direction opposite to said pressing-moving direction; and a holder which limits movements of said first mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member and said second mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member in a biasing direction of said biaser when said first mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member and said second mirror-retracting shock-absorbing member are pressed and moved in a direction opposite to said biasing direction of said biaser by said movable mirror which rotates toward said retracted position.