Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Copal Company Limited

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kenta Namioka

Michio Cho

Hiroshi Ohmura

Seimei Ushiro

Kimiaki Nakada

Tokuji Sato

Kunio Arisaka

Takeshi Watanabe

Tsutomu Kimura

Yoshihiro Fujita

Yoshiaki Sakamoto

Ko Aosaki

Nobuyoshi Inoue

Takashi Kubo

Yasuhiro Nishitani

Masaaki Nomura

Minoru Shiiba

Fumio Kikutzugi

Hirofumi Kino

Koji Takanose

Shoji Inaba

In a camera battery charger, a solar battery is provided upon a lid of a camera case, and a charging circuit for charging the in-camera battery by the solar battery or an external battery. When a camera is stored in a main body of the case, the in-camera battery is electrically connected to a power supply output terminal of the charging circuit, and is normally charged by the solar battery. When high-speed charging is necessary, the in-camera battery is charged at high speed by an external battery in an external battery adapter set in the main body of the case, or an external battery stored in an external battery storage part integrated with the main body of the case.

Combination solar and external battery powered camera battery charger

An overhead projector has a stage on which original material is placed. The stage has a Fresnel mirror. An electrostatic attracting structure is integral with the Fresnel mirror. The attracting structure includes a conductive membrane of ceramic and a resinous dielectric/protective layer. The conductive membrane consists of a pair of comb-shaped electrodes, which interfinger in coplanar fashion, and are covered by the dielectric/protective layer for insulation and protection. A power supply device applies a high voltage of direct current to the electrodes. The original material is attracted electrostatically by the electrodes, and can be kept flat on the stage. In a preferred embodiment, the power supply device incorporates a self-starting blocking oscillator, which is adapted to boost the voltage sufficiently for electrostatic attraction.

Overhead projector

An electonic copying machine for making a hard copy of a remote original comprises a housing and an image pick-up unit pivotally mounted on the housing for vertical swinging movement between a raised use position and a lowered non-use position. In the housing, there are a scanner for scanning the remote original with a line of light projected through a transparent window plate, a recording head and image recording paper. In the image pick-up unit, there are a lens for forming a line image of the scanned remote original on the recording paper, a line image sensor for reading the line image formed thereon by the lens to provide line image signals according to which the image recording head records and image on the recording paper, shifting the line image sensor by a predetermined pitch in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the line image sensor. When the image pick-up unit is folded down, the transparent window plate is covered by the image pick-up unit and the lens is received in a space formed in a corner of the housing and the electronic copying machine then has the shape of a generally rectangular box.

Electronic copying machine

An optical apparatus having a base table on which an original is placed and an image forming unit with an optical system which projects an image of the original onto a remote screen for showing the same to a number of viewers. A foldable structure is provided, having a support structure mounted on a base table for movement between a lowered position covering the base table and a raised position wherein the image forming unit is located above the base table so as to form and project the image of the original onto the remote screen. A linkage interconnects the image forming unit and the support structure for causing a movement of the image forming unit relative to the support structure upon movement of the support structure between the folded and unfolded positions, thereby placing the image forming unit above the base table when the supporting means is in the raised position and flush with the support means so as to cover the base table when the support means is in the lowered position.

Foldable optical apparatus

A copying machine for making a hard copy of an original comprises an image sensor for reading an image of the original to provide image signals, a memory for memorizing the image signals after or before processing the image signals for necessary corrections, and a printer for printing an image on a copying sheet according to the image signal after image processing. Preferably, a thermal printing head and a heat sensitive sheet are used. The copying machine is compact and either is incorporated in a portable overhead projector or is used as a writing board copy machine. In the former case, the image sensor is disposed in a supporting arm for supporting an image projection lens assembly above a base section of the overhead projector on which a transparent original is placed. The image sensor reads a reflecting original to provide image signals and the thermal printing head prints a mirror image of the reflecting original on a transparent heat sensitive sheet according to the image signals provided by the image sensor, thereby providing a transparent secondary original instantly for projection. In the latter case, the machine includes a pattern projector for projecting a light pattern which will be deformed on the remote original according to position of the copying machine, whereupon a correcting circuit provides a correction signal. The heat sensitive sheet is formed with indicia near front and rear diagonally opposite edges, symmetrically with respect to the center of the sheet, to indicate at least the surface of the sheet to which a heat sensitive material layer is applied.

Heat sensitive copying machine

An electric shutter device wherein an armature lever is attracted by an electromagnet by making a large current flow to the electromagnet only when the operation of a self-timer ends so that a normal exposure operation may be thereby started in order to minimize the power consumption during the operation of the electric self-timer. This electric shutter device is provided with a pair of shutter blades which are also diaphragm blades, a closing drive plate engageable with the armature lever to control the opening and closing of the shutter, an exposure time controlling circuit controlling the energizing time of the electromagnet to determine a proper exposure time, an exposure warning circuit and a flash controlling circuit.

Electric shutter device provided with an electric self-timer

A program type electric shutter wherein a shutter blade which is also a diaphragm blade and is made to be able to latch an exposure warning indicating device to be inoperative just before the beginning of the opening of the shutter blade and a diaphragm device which can open and close a window for a light receiving element are operatively connected with each other in order to prevent the mis-indication of the exposure warning indicating device. This electric shutter is provided with an electric self-timer device and a flash controlling circuit.

Program type electric shutter provided with exposure warning indicating

An electric shutter means which comprises a voltage checking circuit connected to an exposure time control circuit including an electromagnet for controlling the time of closing shutter blades so that, when the voltage of a power source battery for said exposure time control circuit has dropped to be below a predetermined level, the passage of electricity to said electromagnet may be forcibly interrupted by said voltage checking circuit.

Electric shutter means with battery checking circuit

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