Abstract: In an endoscopic optical fiber bundle, cutouts (15a) are formed near an end portion of helical tube (15) and the area with the cutouts is placed over socket (12), with a string-like member (16) being passed through the cutouts (15a) to be wound onto the outer surface of the helical tube (15) so that the socket (12) is tightly bound to the helical tube 15.

Abstract: A flexible tube for an endoscope includes a spiral coil 11 as the innermost layer and a jacket 13 that is formed by applying a melt of a jacket material 1 and then curing it, in which the jacket material 1 has been allowed to penetrate through the gaps between adjacent turns of the innermost spiral coil 11 to reach the portion of its inner surface.

Abstract: Drag rollers disposed in a region from the paper feed side to the paper discharge side of a printing machine are driven one after another from the paper feed side with torque control, by which the slack of a web is removed successively from the upstream side of a web delivery running path.

Abstract: An electric field applying device is disposed in a position opposite to a surface of rotary developing device within an area defined between the surface of the developing means and a position of scratching device after the surface of the developing device passes through a developing area so as to apply an electric field in a direction in which ions having the polarity opposite to that of toner particles are separated from the surface of the developing device.

Abstract: A figure input system includes an input device such as a digitizer through which coordinate data of points on a figure to be inputted are time-wise continuously received. These data are sampled sequentially at set time intervals and are analyzed in view of the kind of basic figure intended by the user such that geometrical characteristics and position data are extracted from the sampled data and a regular basic figure can be displayed on a display device.

Abstract: A character recognition apparatus includes an inputting function of ruled lines. The apparatus is equipped with a tablet type input device integrating a tablet type input device with a display panel. The apparatus includes a control unit that recognizes information inputted in an input panel by a stylus pen. There is a memory unit for storing the recognized information. The control unit sets a grating-like virtual frame in the input panel. The frame set in the input panel is a virtual boarder obtained by calculation and does not appear on a display panel.

Abstract: A method determines coordinates of a circumscribed rectangular frame for enclosing each character based on image data of character images in a recognition area. First of all, specified image data of a predetermined data unit in a transverse direction including at least one bit of black pixel are determined by scanning the image data. Thereafter, top and bottom coordinates of a circumscribed rectangular frame are determined respectively by searching respective image data located at the top and bottom positions among plural image data including at least one bit of black pixel located on the upper and lower sides of the specified image data, wherein respective bits of black pixel of plural image data are substantially continuously connected in a longitudinal direction, and then, leftmost and rightmost coordinates of the circumscribed rectangular frame are determined based on histogram data composed of either logical products or logical sums of respective bits in the transverse direction.

Abstract: An information recognition system includes a recognition unit for recognizing inputted information as groups of candidate characters, a memory for storing the groups of candidate characters, a display-integrated tablet for displaying top characters in the groups of candidate characters, also a coordinate input device for indicating one of the displayed characters, and a character correcting device which replaces the top character indicated by the coordinate indicating device with another character in the group to which the indicated top character belongs are provided.

Abstract: A handwritten character-recognizing apparatus having a discriminating device which discriminates whether or not an input device, namely, the pen of a writing/displaying tablet has moved from one character frame to the following character frame. When it is discriminated that the input device has moved to the following character frame, a character frame generating device automatically generates a character frame adjacent to the last character frame of the character frames arranged in a line. Thereby, the reading of handwritten characters and the recognizing of standard characters which are displayed instead of the handwritten characters are facilitated.

Abstract: A tilting device of a vehicle headlight having a tiltable member defining the direction of the light beam and being tiltably supported on a supporting member. The tilting device comprises an adjust rod being rotatable and displaceable in the fore and aft directions and supported on the supporting member with the front end being connected to the tiltable member and the rear end projecting rearward of the supporting member, and a drive mechanism for rotating the adjust rod and being mounted on the rear surface of the supporting member. The drive mechanism comprises an output shaft slidably and irrotatably connected to the rear end of the adjust rod, a detecting device for detecting the position of the adjust rod and disposed coaxially with the output shaft, a drive mechanism for rotating the output shaft and a transmit mechanism for trasmitting the rotation of the output shaft to a rotatable portion of the detecting device.

Abstract: A method for flameproofing cellulosic fibrous materials, which comprises treating a cellulosic fibrous material with a treating liquid comprising 100 parts by weight of an N-hydroxymethyldialkylphosphonopropionamide represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R stands for an alkyl gorup having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and 10 to 200 parts by weight (as solids) of an antimony oxide sol.

Abstract: A handwritten character recognition device comprises a feature point circuit for recognizing a character with using three feature points for a continuous stroke connecting a first stroke and second strokes. For recognition, both stroke information and stroke connection information between adjacent strokes are read-in per stroke. Therefore, the character can be recognized with a relative position correlation between the stroke number and the stroke shape. Even if the stroke number may be irregularly changed, the inputted character can be recognized without a necessity of storing information for the irregularly changed strokes.