Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Masaru Yanagisawa

Hideo Tamamura

Koichi Washisu

A fuel supply apparatus for supplying fuel to a fuel cell has a fuel supply unit and a water suction unit. When the fuel cell is mounted onto the fuel supply apparatus, the apparatus supplies fuel to the fuel cell and removes the water inside the fuel cell by suction.

Fuel supply apparatus

Fuel cell, fuel supply apparatus therefor, and fuel supply system therefor

The present invention relates to an optical apparatus such as an image-shake correcting device or a camera adapted to have a flash unit built therein or attachable thereto. The optical apparatus comprises an optical-axis deflecting assembly for varying a photographic area by deflecting the optical axis of a photographic optical system, and a control circuit for controlling the operation of the optical-axis deflecting assembly so that the photographic area of the photographic optical system is made to be substantially covered by an illumination area of the flash unit. According to the above-described arrangement, if a subject is located at, for example, a closest-distance position and is not completely positioned within the illumination area of the flash unit, the photographic optical axis is deflected so that the optical axis of the flash unit and the photographic optical axis intersect each other on a closest-distance side, whereby it is possible to position the subject within the illumination area of the flash unit at all times.

Optical apparatus having flash-illumination-area controlling device

A camera system which is controllable with a remote-control device is arranged to detect the incoming flight direction of a signal sent from the remote-control device, to adjust the facing direction of the camera to the incoming flight direction of the signal, and to be capable of shifting the facing direction of the camera to a given direction according to an instruction signal coming from the remote-control device after the facing direction of the camera is adjusted to the incoming flight direction of the signal.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masaru Yanagisawa