Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Sony Corporation

Yoshihiro Ide

Koichi Takahashi

Kazuo Okutsu

Hidero Mitsui

Kazumasa Harada

Yukio Ishida

Hiroshi Takei

Takashi Masuda

Nobuyuki Kameyama

Yasuhiko Tanaka

Yuji Morimiya

Yasuo Yamazaki

Takashi Kawaguchi

Shiro Hashimoto

Akio Ohmiya

Yoshisada Okayasu

Muneyoshi Sato

Masaharu Kanai

Takao Koda

Tetuo Nishizawa

Mitsuo Hoshino

Mitsuhiro Shimada

Yuichiro Nogo

Nobumasa Sakurai

Mitsuo Yokota

Masaya Nozawa

Masanoshin Komori

Yuka Tsutsumi

Imao Kakuno

A unified compact video camera and video cassette recording and/or reproducing apparatus (VCR) has a video camera unit and a VCR unit which includes a cassette holder arranged in a common hollow body at opposite sides of its median plane, and a grip strap extends along the body at the outside of the cassette holder so that the opposite side of the body is available for the positioning thereat of various control switches for operating the video camera and VCR units.

Unified compact video camera and VCR

A built-in camera type video tape recorder as disclosed that can be loaded on a connecting apparatus for connecting the built-in camera type video tape recorder having video signal, audio signal, and control signal terminals and a power supply connecting terminal to other electrical machinery and apparatus. It comprises a supporting member formed at one side wall of the built-in camera type video tape recorder and having a shutter member, the shutter member being opened in a ganged relation with a shutter which is opened when the built-in camera type video tape recorder is loaded on the connecting apparatus, and a terminal portion facing an opening portion of the shutter member of aid supporting member and being electrically connected to a signal input and output portion projected from the opening portion opened when a shutter of the connecting apparatus is opened. A connecting apparatus for connecting such a built-in camera type video tape recorder comprises an apparatus body being connected to the other electrical machinery and apparatus via a cable, an input and output terminal portion for connecting respective terminals of the built-in camera type video tape recorder to the apparatus body, the built-in camera type video tape recorder being loaded onto the apparatus body, a shutter mechanism for opening a shutter provided on the apparatus body by a slide operation, and a terminal portion for electrically connecting the signal input and output terminal portion.

Connecting apparatus for a video tape recorder having a built-in camera

A battery pack having rechargeable secondary batteries housed in a battery casing. The battery pack includes hollow tubular-shaped anodic and cathodic terminals in a right upper void and in a left upper void, respectively, of the battery casing. The voids are produced by housing the cylindrical first and second secondary batteries in the battery casing. An anodic terminal connecting pin and a cathodic terminal connecting pin are provided on an external equipment for fitting in and connecting with the anodic terminal and the cathodic terminal, respectively. Since there is no necessity for providing a particular mounting space for the anodic and cathodic terminals, the battery pack may be reduced in size, while the battery pack may be reliably supported with respect to the external equipment in a manner free from wobbling or detachment from the external equipment.

Battery pack

A variable focal length camera having at least one auxiliary lens system which is inserted into or withdrawn from the optical axis of a main lens system. A lens holder holding the auxiliary lens system is swingably mounted on a shaft extending in the direction of the optical axis, and moves forward and rearward along the shaft for focus adjustment. In order to cancel the component of a force in the direction of the optical axis exerted by a tool by which a focus adjusting device is operated, the shaft is arranged to be motionless in the direction of the optical axis. According to a preferred embodiment, on the intermediate portion of the shaft, there is formed a thread meshing with a base portion of the lens holder so that the position of the lens holder is adjusted through rotation of the shaft, and after this lens position adjustment the base portion is fixed to the shaft.

Variable focal length camera with focus adjusting device

An apparatus for adhering ribbons to a cartridge shell plate comprises a conveyor for continuously conveying thin sheets disposed side by side, a pressure adherence unit for pushing two ribbon webs coated with an adhesive against edge portions of the thin sheets which are being conveyed, and a ribbon cutting mechanism for circulating cutter units beside the thin sheets in the direction of conveyance of the thin sheets in synchronization therewith, and swinging cutters of the cutter units to cut the ribbon webs between adjacent thin sheets. The cartridge shell plate is made by intermittently conveying thin sheets, which have been cut in a size equal to the developed length and width dimensions of the cartridge shell plate, by a conveyor, and cutting four corner portions of the thin sheet and then bending the thin sheet into a shiplike cross-sectional shape at a cutting process station and a bending process station disposed along the conveyor.

Apparatus for adhering ribbons to cartridge shell plate

An apparatus for adhering ribbons to a cartridge shell plate comprises a conveyor for continuously conveying thin sheets disposed side by side, a pressure adherence unit for pushing two ribbon webs coated with an adhesive against edge portions of the thin sheets which are being conveyed, and a ribbon cutting mechanism for circulating cutter units beside the thin sheets in the direction of conveyance of the thin sheets in synchronization therewith, and swinging cutters of the cutter units to cut the ribbon webs between adjacent thin sheets. The cartridge shell plate is made by intermittently conveying thin sheets, which have been cut in a size equal to the developed length and width dimensions of the cartridge shell plate, by a conveyor, and cutting four corner portions of the thin sheet and then bending the thin sheet into a ship-like cross-sectional shape at a cutting process station and a bending process station disposed along the conveyor.

A data recording camera capable of recording a shooting date includes a memory for storing data as to the current date, a memory for storing data as to the birth date of an individual, an operation circuit for obtaining the age of the individual based on the data as to the current date and the birth date stored in the memories, and a display member for optically displaying the obtained age which is also photographically recorded on a film.

Data recording camera

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshihiro Ide