Abstract: An electronic scan type ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus for forming a tomographic image of a patient body is disclosed. In order to focus ultrasonic waves emitted from a probe having an array of electroacoustic oscillators, driving pulses are delayed by a surface wave delay device. The delay device has a surface wave propagating medium, a first transducer including a main surface wave electrode and two sub surface wave electrodes, and a second transducer including an array of surface wave electrodes. The main and sub electrodes of the first transducer are arranged along an arc having a center situating at a middle point of the electrode array of the second transducer and the surface wave electrodes of the second transducer are arranged along an arc having a center situating on a center line connecting the main electrode and the middle point of the second transducer and a radius which is a half of that of the arc along which the main and sub electrodes are arranged.

Abstract: A reversed image sensing apparatus comprising an image sensor composed of a charge transfer element including photosensitive elements arranged in a picture element unit, an optical system including a focusing lens and a light source and focusing an image recorded on a recording medium onto said image sensor, a voltage inverting circuit operative to receive the output video signal from said image sensor and produce a reversed video signal, a photosensitive element operative to detect the brightness of said light source, and a compensating circuit operative to automatically correct said reversed video signal on the basis of the brightness signal delivered from said photosensitive element in response to charge in said light source.

Abstract: A microscope objective comprising a first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens components, in which the first lens component is a negative meniscus lens, the second lens component is a positive meniscus lens, the third and fourth lens components are positive cemented doublets and the fifth lens component is a negative cemented meniscus doublet, and for which the numerical aperture is large and the image becomes flat toward marginal portion.

Abstract: A method of obtaining a number of copies transferred from one electrostatic latent image produced on an electric charge carrying member coated on an electrically conductive transfer body is disclosed. The method comprises the successive steps of producing an electrostatic latent image charge on the transfer body, developing the electrostatic latent image charge into a toned picture image, applying a bias voltage between an electrically conductive screen arranged near a transfer receiving medium made in contact with the transfer body on the one hand and the transfer body on the other hand and at the same time charging the transfer receiving medium through the electrically conductive screen with a corona source of ions. The method can transfer the electrostatic latent image produced on the transfer body to the transfer receiving medium without damaging the electrostatic latent image at a high speed with a high efficiency.