Sony Corporation

Fujinon Corporation

Noriaki Sakata

Kazuyoshi Kiga

Tadasu Kobayashi

Takao Ozaki

Kazuhito Hori

Takuya Makino

Akio Sakashita

Takashi Mochizuki

A shooting system includes a main body, a recording/reproducing unit, and an interface box. The main body includes a first housing having a plurality of outer surfaces of different orientations. Two different outer surfaces of the first housing provide first and second attachment parts, each attachment part having main-body-side connectors. The recording/reproducing unit has a second housing which constitutes an exterior thereof and provides a recording/reproducing-unit-side attachment part attachable to both the first and second attachment parts. The recording/reproducing-unit-side attachment part provides recording/reproducing-unit-side connectors connectable to the main-body-side connectors. The interface box has a third housing which constitutes an exterior thereof and provides an interface-box-side attachment part attachable to both the first and second attachment part. The interface-box-side attachment part provides interface-box-side connectors connectable to the main-body-side connectors.

Shooting system and interface box

A movement preventing structure for a color separation prism prevents or reduces the movement in an optical axis direction of the color separation prism caused by the thermal expansion or contraction of a color separation prism supporting member. In the movement preventing structure for a color separation prism, in which the movement in an optical axis direction of the color separation prism is prevented by the thermal expansion or contraction of the color separation prism supporting member which supports the color separation prism arranged between a mount part, on which a lens apparatus is detachably mounted, and a solid-state image sensing element of a camera apparatus having the mount part and the solid-state image sensing element, the movement preventing structure has a color separation prism movement preventing member being formed of a thermally-expanding material, having a first fixing part fixed to the color separation prism and a second fixing part fixed to the color separation prism supporting member, and the length in an optical axis direction thereof being changed by thermal expansion or contraction; the color separation prism supporting member supports the color separation prism so that the color separation prism is movable in an optical axis direction; and the length in an optical axis direction of the color separation prism movement preventing member is changed by thermal expansion or contraction, and the color separation prism movement preventing member applies a force to the color separation prism fixed in the first fixing part, whereby the color separation prism is moved in the direction reverse to the direction of the movement of the color separation prism caused by the thermal expansion or contraction of the color separation prism supporting member.

Movement preventing structure for color separation prism

When the adjusting shaft is rotated, the rotation of the adjusting shaft is transmitted to the rotationally movable barrel. The rotationally movable barrel rotates so that the rotationally movable barrel moves forward and backward along optical axis while rotating due to the interaction between the female screw portion formed in the distal end of the rotationally movable barrel and the male screw portion formed in the second flange portion of the fixed barrel. The forward and backward movement of the rotationally movable barrel along optical axis causes the rectilinearly movable barrel connected to the connecting portion of the rotationally movable barrel through the groove, to move forward and backward along optical axis. Accordingly, the CCD fixed to the rectilinearly movable barrel through the CCD carrier moves forward and backward along optical axis, thereby correcting the flange-back length.

Image pick-up device and adjustment mechanism

A heat transport device has an evaporator and a condenser connected through a vapor phase channel and a liquid phase channel and has wicks of the condenser arranged symmetrically around an axis orthogonal to the direction of gravity. The flow of fluid in a liquid phase inside the wicks is not disrupted even when the heat transport device is tilted at any angle relative to the horizontal surface or the vertical surface.

Heat transport device and electronic apparatus

A controller uses image processing to detect any abnormalities in the shape and distance of the perforations of a motion picture film by means of image data obtained upon imaging the perforations of the running motion picture film by a video camera in a sensor unit arranged in the film running path. If any abnormalities are detected in the perforations in the motion picture film running in the film running path, an error output specifying such abnormalities is fed to a system controller that operates to stop the film drive system including stopping the intermittent film feed at the optical film gate and extinguishing the light source illuminating the film.

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Tokyo, Japan

Noriaki Sakata