Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Konica Corporation

Kenji Negishi

Keiji Uchiyama

Daisuke Mitsuhashi

Hidemi Sasaki

Takeshi Fujishiro

Osamu Noguchi

Mitsuro Kamata

Toshio Sata

Noboru Kawasaki

Akira Takimoto

Yoshiaki Kato

Kazuo Kamata

Takao Miyazaki

Kazuo Okoyama

Takayuki Katoh

Hirofumi Katsura

Hiroyuki Honda

Takashi Matsumoto

Shinsuke Aoshima

Yasunori Nishijima

Hiroya Kimoto

Nobuya Yamamoto

Yukito Suzuki

Sigenori Oosaka

A camera casing of the present invention is an integral two-color molded product whose case main body ( ) consists of a transparent rigid resin layer ( ) and an opaque rigid resin layer ( ). Essential parts of the camera are exposed through the transparent resin layer ( ), so the camera may be operated from outside the casing. The casing is collected and melted as a whole without discriminating between the transparent rigid resin and the opaque rigid resin, to be recycled as a material for the opaque resin layer ( ) when the case main body is newly formed by two-color injection molding.

Camera casing and recycling method therefor

An ink-jet printer comprises: a recording head to eject ink through a nozzle; a conveying element located so as to face the recording head and conveying a recording medium onto which an image is recorded employing the recording head; and a recording medium expansion and contraction-preventing means provided at a contacting portion where the conveying element contacts the recording medium.

Ink-jet printer

By pushing down a shutter release operation member ( ), that is mounted on a front of a waterproof case of a waterproof type lens-fitted photo film unit, a release lever ( ) is caused to rotate through a rotary shaft ( ) that is put through a front wall of the waterproof case. Thereby, the release lever directly pushes an arresting member ( ) through an opening ( ) provided on a front side of a unit body ( ), releasing a shutter drive member ( ) as having been arrested in a cocked position by the arresting member ( ), and thus causing a shutter blade ( ) to make an open-close movement. The waterproof case consists of a pair of case members that are put on the unit body from its front and rear sides, and are joined to each other by engagement. An elastic waterproof ring is force-fitted in a gap of the joint between the case members. The waterproof ring has a substantially semicircular sectional contour, and is provided with a ridge on a flat surface portion on the opposite side from a curved surface portion.

Film unit with waterproof lens and waterproof ring

A tablet shaped catalyst is disposed on an upper portion inside a waterproof housing. The catalyst, which is comprised of palladium, accelerates a chemical reaction for combining hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. The catalyst begins accelerating the chemical reaction just after contacting with hydrogen gas. By disposing said catalyst on an upper position inside the waterproof housing, hydrogen gas, lighter than the air, is effectively removed. This chemical reaction causes to generate water, so it is preferable to provide a water absorbent by the catalyst.

Waterproof type photographing apparatus and package for lens-fitted photo film unit

A lens fitted film unit having a film cartridge with a flat portion with a film egress/ingress slot, and a light-tight film unit case for receiving therein the film cartridge with the flat portion in alignment with a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of a taking lens of a film unit. This alignment of the flat portion of the film cartridge reduces the thickness of the film unit.

Lens fitted film unit with film cartridge alignment reducing thickness

A lens-fitted photo film unit has a cassette containing chamber and a photo film roll chamber. The cassette containing chamber contains a cassette. The cassette has a spool and a cassette shutter. A photo film is secured to the spool contained in the cassette in a rotatable manner. The cassette shutter is incorporated in a rotatable manner between a closed position to block a photo film passage port and an open position to open the photo film passage port. The lens-fitted photo film unit has a rotatable photo film winding wheel, of which a wheel portion is disposed above the cassette containing chamber, and externally rotated after a frame on the photo film is exposed. A first rotational shaft projects downwards from the wheel portion, and is engaged with the spool through a top wall of the cassette containing chamber. The wheel portion is rotated to wind the photo film into the cassette. A rotating member has a second rotational shaft, is connected with the cassette shutter through the top wall of the cassette containing chamber, and rotates the cassette shutter from the open position to the closed position. Arc-like ridges project on the top wall of the cassette containing chamber, and support the wheel portion thereon. The wheel portion is located away from the top wall of the cassette containing chamber. The rotating member is contained between the wheel portion and the top wall at least partially.

Lens-fitted photo film unit with supported film advance wheel

A magnetic head having a control portion provided integrally with an opposing surface located opposing the recording surface of a magnetic disc or a head mount for generating a negative pressure between the control portion and the magnetic disc to attract the magnetic disc towards the magnetic head, thereby generating an adequate and sufficient negative pressure in the vicinity of the magnetic head and achieving a good head touch. This configuration enables compact design of the mechanism and an increased recording area of the magnetic disc compared with the case in which a magnetic head and a negative pressure generation type stabilizing plate to attract the magnetic disc towards the magnetic head are separately disposed, and eliminates the need for procedures for separate positioning of the individual magnetic head and stabilizing plate, thereby achieving a considerable reduction in manufacturing steps and production cost.

Contact-type magnetic head having an integral control portion for

A lens-fitted photo film unit has a housing (2), in which a photo film roll chamber and a cassette containing chamber (8, 70) are formed. A cassette incorporates a port shutter (14) rotatable between a closed position of closing a photo film passage port and an open position of opening the passage port. The photo film is wound into the cassette as much as one frame each time one frame is exposed. The cassette is removed from the cassette containing chamber after winding the photo film entirely into the cassette. Through an exit opening, the cassette containing chamber is open externally. An openable bottom lid (7, 66, 75, 80) closes the exit opening, is opened for the removal of the cassette. A rotating mechanism (30, 76, 87, 93; 34, 78, 88, 90; 35, 50, 60, 72, 85) is engaged with the port shutter through a top wall (8a, 70a) of the cassette containing chamber, rotates the port shutter from the open position to the closed position in response to operation opening the bottom lid.

Lens-fitted photo film unit and method of producing the same

Magnetic head having a control portion for generating negative pressure

A mechanism for supporting a head carriage provided with a magnetic head to magnetically record still image information or the like into a magnetic disc or reproduce such information therefrom. In the support mechanism, the two ends of a lead screw having a threaded portion almost in the center portion thereof are respectively received by two bearings each having two, substantially perpendicularly intersecting surfaces, and the head carriage, which can be guided and moved by the lead screw, is also provided with two, substantially perpendicularly intersecting surfaces touchable with a shaft of the lead screw. By energizing the head carriage in a given direction by a spring, the head carriage two intersecting surfaces can be brought into contact with the lead screw and the lead screw can be brought into contact with the intersecting surfaces of the respective bearings.

Apparatus for adjustably supporting a head carriage

A mechanism for supporting a head carriage provided with a magnetic head to magnetically record still image information or the like into a magnetic disc or reproduce such information therefrom. In the support mechanism, the two ends of a lead screw having a threaded portion almost in the center portion thereof are respectively received by two bearings each having two, substantially perpendicularly intersecting surfaces, and the head carriage, which can be guided and moved by the lead screw, is also provided with two, substantially perpendicularly intersecting surfaces touchable with a shaft of the lead screw. By energizing the head carriage in a given direction by a spring, the head carriage's two intersecting surfaces can be brought into contact with the lead screw, and the lead screw can be brought into contact with the intersecting surfaces of the respective bearings.

Mechanism for supporting and guiding a head carriage

A method and a structure for mounting to a head carriage a magnetic head applicable to a magnetic recorder or reproducer in an electronic camera system wherein an object is electronically photographed and recorded into a rotating magnetic disc and an image is reproduced by a television system or a printer. In the method and structure, a pin is inserted through a through-bore in a head mount plate and is then brought into abutment with the head carriage. Adhesives are applied to clearances between the pin and the through-bore of the head mount plate as well as between the pin and the abutment surface of the head carriage to fill them up. In the method and structure, since the head mount plate is adhesively attached to the head carriage via the pin, the resultant adhesive layers are reduced in thickness, thereby preventing the magnetic head from shifting out of position when the adhesives are hardened.

Method for mounting a magnetic head

In this device for mounting a magnetic head, a block mounted thereto with the magnetic head is secured to a mount through magnets, so that the operations of mounting and removing the magnetic head can be easily carried out at a stroke. Furthermore, the magnets of the block and the magnets of the mount are shifted in position in a direction of setting the block aside, so that loosenesses between positioning holes formed in the block and positioning pins provided on the mount can be absorbed.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kenji Negishi