Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Konica Corporation

Other

Michio Yagi

Kazuo Shiozawa

Koji Watanabe

Kazuhisa Aratame

Haruji Ishihara

Ryushi Shimokawa

Yasutsugu Nakagawa

Kijiro Suzuki

Seiichi Isoguchi

Satoshi Harada

Masami Fujita

Shin Isozaki

Kunio Nakajima

Kohji Matsushima

Satoshi Haneda

Yasushi Hoshino

Toyoaki Sugaya

Kaneo Saito

Takashi Tsutsumi

Eiji Ito

Haruhiko Momose

Toshiaki Takahashi

Yasuo Uchida

Hiroshi Sawano

Masaru Nagai

Takehiko Hamaguchi

Sizuo Ishii

Yoshihiro Higuchi

The color image forming machine such like a color printer or a color copier for forming a color image on a recording sheet. The image forming machine includes a photoreceptor belt; a belt driver for rotating the photoreceptor in a longitudinal direction; a laser beam scanner for repeatedly scanning the photoreceptor in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, with the laser beam, so that the latent image is formed on the photoreceptor; a developer for developing the latent image with plural color toners; a measuring unit for determining a rotation time of the photoreceptor; and a controller unit for controlling a scanning frequency of the laser beam scanner so that one scanning time of the laser beam scanner is set to the result of dividing the rotation time of the photoreceptor, while the photoreceptor rotates one round, by an integer.

Color image forming apparatus with improved color image registration

A mechanism for supporting a pair of magnetic core heads for reading and writing magnetic codes of a flexible disk having magnetic coatings thereon while the disk is rotating. Each of the heads is disposed on either side of the disk. The head supporting structure allows one of the heads to rock about a radial axis with respect to the disk, i.e., pitching, and to rock about a circumferential axis with respect to the disk, i.e., rolling, as well as to move in the direction normal to the disk face. On the other hand, the other head is allowed to pitch and move normally to the disk face but prevented from rolling. Thus, it is possible to minimize the radial dislocation of the head core with respect to the recording tracks, while effectively ensuring follow-up characteristics of the head.

Head supporting structure in disk drive system for double sided flexible

The present invention relates to the improvement of an exposure control device in a camera having a centralized control system that has a built-in control circuit such as a microprocessor etc. and employing a shutter wherein an optimum exposure is obtained in a way that the exposure is given to the film between the gradual opening of the shutter and the closing thereof and the correlation between the shutter apertures and their corresponding lapse of time form a triangle on the graph. If further relates to the improvement of the exposure control means for flash photographing in a camera employing aforesaid shutter and a built-in strobe flash light source.

Camera

The present invention relates to a mechanism for carrying a pair of magnetic core heads for reading and writing magnetic codes on a flexible disk having magnetic coatings thereon while the disk is rotating. Each of the heads is disposed on either side of the disk. The head carrying mechanism allows one of the heads 1 to rock about a radial axis with respect to the disk, i.e. pitching and to rock about a circumferential axis with respect to the disk, i.e. rolling as well as to move in the direction normal to the disk face. Further, the head carrying mechanism allows the head 0 to pitch about a radial axis with respect to the disk face but not to roll about an axis parallel to the circumferential direction with respect to the disk.

Supporting structure for dual magnetic head

The present invention relates to the improvement of an exposure control means in a camera having a centralized control system that has a built-in control circuit such as a microprocessor etc. and employing a shutter wherein an optimum exposure is obtained in a way that the exposure is given to the film between the gradual opening of the shutter and the closing thereof and the correlations between the shutter apertures and their corresponding lapse of time form a triangle on the graph. It further relates to the improvement of the exposure control means for flash photographing in a camera employing aforesaid shutter and a bulit-in strobe flash light source.

A camera device wherein a one-way clutch or a friction clutch is provided between a driving power source and a winding spool, a one-way clutch or a friction clutch is provided between a rewinding shaft and a rewinding spool, said driving power source and a sprocket, or a one-way clutch or a friction clutch is provided between a shaft of said sprocket and the same sprocket. The speed of revolution in a rewinding direction of said driving power source during a rewinding operation is set to a level not lower than a speed of revolution of said winding spool rotated in the rewinding direction by a film being rewound. The winding power source and the rewinding shaft both of which are adapted to be rotated positively at different speed ratios.

Camera device

Automatic focus adjusting device comprising a range finding means which generates a signal corresponding to a distance to an object to be photographed; means for setting a photographing lens to a position corresponding to the output signal from the range finding means; a primary judging means which judges whether or not a diaphragm setting is within the range in which fixed focus photographing is possible or not; and a secondary judging means which judges whether an output signal from the range finding means is at a level capable of operating an automatic focusing means, wherein the secondary judging means judges only when the primary judging means judges that a diaphragm setting is not within the range in which fixed focus photography is possible and the automatic focusing means is operated only when the secondary judging means judges the output signal is at a level capable of operating the automatic focusing means.

Automatic focus adjusting device

An automatic exposure control method and device has photometry means for detecting the brightness of a subject and providing an output signal in response thereto, a shutter, driving means for driving the shutter toward a full aperture, closing means for closing the shutter in accordance with the output signal from the photometry means, and adjusting means for adjusting the photometry means in a stepwise manner to provide the output signal variably in accordance with the light detected and the opening position of the shutter. In one embodiment, the driving means for opening the shutter engages a series of contacts for correspondingly short-circuiting photoelectric elements providing the electrical signal output, thereby varying in a stepwise manner the charging of a capacitor in a comparator circuit for disengaging a solenoid controlling the shutter closing means.

Programmed automatic exposure control

A variable illumination flash apparatus includes a main capacitor in parallel with a flash lamp and power source for normally supporting triggered discharge illumination of the lamp. A plurality of secondary circuits each containing a series-connected silicon controlled rectifier and secondary capacitor are disposed in parallel with the main capacitor and are individually selectively actuatable to store additional electric charge for further supporting lamp illumination. Each secondary circuit is actuated only when additional illumination is required for a subequent flash operation, thereby promoting efficient conservation of the power source in that no power is drawn from the source and stored in the capacitors unless needed for the immediately subsequent flash operation.

Variable electronic flash light equipment

A camera which includes a liquid crystal focusing screen and an exposure control circuit that measures light reflected from the subject to be photographed after its passage through the liquid crystal screen is further provided with a circuit for compensating the light value determined by the exposure control circuit when operating voltage is not applied to the focusing screen so as to thereby compensate the amount of light measured through the screen when the nonapplication of operating voltage to the focusing screen causes the screen to transmit light therethrough less readily than when operating voltage is applied thereto.

Camera having a liquid crystal focusing screen

A camera including a photoelectric focus detecting device, the focused condition judgement level of which can be changed in accordance with the range of depth of focus or field of a photographing lens, with the change in an aperture value or value of an iris diaphragm, with the change or difference in the focal length of the lens, or with the difference in the wide-open F-number of an interchangeable lens.

Camera with photoelectric focus detecting device

A film magazine is provided with a peripheral surface carrying at least one photoelectrically discriminatable strip-like mark indicative of the sensitivity of film contained within the magazine, and a photographic camera having a shutter operating circuit automatically adjustable in accordance with the sensitivity of photographic film contained within such a film magazine inserted into the camera includes photoelectric discriminating means located in the camera for discriminatably reading the at least one strip-like mark on the film magazine when placed in the magazine chamber.

Film magazine having an identity mark for identifying sensitivity of the

An automatic film feeding apparatus for a camera includes a first switch operable in response to the opened or closed position of the camera rear cover, a second switch operable in response to the position of a film counter, a third switch operable in accordance with the position of a film strip in a camera, and an electronic control circuit for operating a film winding motor drive mechanism in response to predetermined states of the first, second, and third switches.

Automatic film feeding apparatus for photographic camera

Battery voltage level warning is made according to the output signals of two detecting circuits. A first detecting circuit detects the power supply voltage having lowered to a value somewhat above the lower limit of the operation power supply voltage of an electronic system. The output thereof supplies weak battery warning. The second detecting circuit detects the power supply voltage having lowered to the lower limit level of said operation power-supply voltage. The output thereof prohibits the operation of said electronic system. Thereby, desirable battery-replacement times becomes clarified and the malfunction of said electronic system is prevented.

Battery level warning device

A camera in which the automatic exposure control is conducted on the basis of measured light information obtained in accordance with the illumination of an object to be photographed. In the camera, a type of exposure control information that is predetermined irrespective of measured light information is supplied as first exposure control information into an exposure control circuit including an analog to digital converter. Subsequently, measured light information obtained through the operation of a shutter release of the camera is supplied thereinto as second exposure control information.

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Hachioji, Japan

Michio Yagi