Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Jvc Kenwood Corporation

Sysmex Corporation

Shigeru Yokota

Masahiro Yamamoto

Noboru Uchida

Tomoyuki Nose

Mitsuhiko Hara

Sayuri Tomoda

Yuki Wada

Satoshi Yonemitsu

Yasufumi Nakaaki

Toshiaki Shimizu

Hideki Samata

Etsuo Shima

Included are: a main body including an installation part in which a cartridge housing a liquid for treating a test substance contained in a specimen is installed and a detector configured to detect the test substance treated with the liquid within the cartridge installed in the installation part; a lid part arranged rotatably on the main body about a shaft so as to open and close the installation part; a biasing part biasing the lid part in an opening direction; and a plurality of regulators each generating resistance against a biasing force in the opening direction at different timing during an opening motion of the lid part.

Detection apparatus and damper structure

An image pickup apparatus has a camera-shake correction mechanism which performs camera-shake correction by moving an image pickup element with respect to a lens unit. The image pickup apparatus includes a z-plate provided slidably in a z-direction, an actuator for moving the plate in the z-direction, a z-shaft which guides the movement of the z-plate, and a rotating ball sandwiched between a base plate and the z-plate in a rotatable state. In a y-z plan view, an opening portion is provided between the z-shaft and the rotating ball, and the rotating ball is arranged outside the opening portion between one end and the other end of the opening portion in the z-direction.

Image pickup apparatus

A linear motion device includes a guide shaft. A to-be-moved member is supported on the guide shaft, and is linearly movable along the guide shaft. A lead screw extends parallel to the guide shaft. A clamper meshes with the lead screw. The clamper moves as the lead screw rotates. An intermediate member is provided between the to-be-moved member and the clamper. An urging member operates for urging the to-be-moved member toward the clamper and enabling the intermediate member to be seated between the to-be-moved member and the clamper in a manner such that an axis of the intermediate member is nonparallel to the guide shaft.

Linear motion device and lens drive device

A lens barrier deviceincludes a pair of lens barrier membershaving a pair of toggle-lever engagement bosses, a ringhaving a pair of recessesformed on its outer circumferential part, a pair of toggle levershaving a pair of triangular cam partand a base framesupporting the toggle levers, and a pair of torsion springsengaged with the toggle leversand the base frame. In assembling, the toggle-lever engagement bossesare freely fitted into the recesses, respectively. With forward-reverse rotating of the ring, by allowing the toggle-lever engagement bossesto slide along the triangular cam partwhile pressing the bossesthrough respective ends of the recesses, the pair of lens barrier membersare held in their closed or opened condition by the toggle leversand the torsion springs

Lens barrier device

A cassette loading device for a cassette recording/reproducing apparatus includes a cassette tray reciprocably movable between a first position in which the cassette tray is retracted into a body of the recording/reproducing apparatus for loading a cassette in a predetermined position, and a second position in which the cassette tray is ejected forwardly from the front panel of the body for attachment and detachment of the cassette relative to the cassette tray, a holder disposed in the cassette tray for holding the cassette, and a mechanism responsive to the movement of the cassette tray toward the second position for causing the holder to tilt its forward end upwardly.

Tray-type cassette loading compatible with two different sized cassettes

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Yokohama, Japan

Shigeru Yokota