Abstract: An exhaust apparatus for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle body. The engine includes a supercharger comprising an exhaust turbine coupled to an exhaust passage of the engine and a compressor is coupled to an intake passage of the engine. The exhaust apparatus comprises an exhaust passage having one end coupled to the exhaust turbine. A first muffler is coupled to the other end of the exhaust passage and a diverging member has one end coupled to the exhaust passage at a point upstream from the first muffler. A second muffler is coupled to the other end of the diverging means.

Abstract: A television camera has an optical system including an iris, a master lens, and a color stripe filter. The television camera further comprises an optical lowpass filter provided within an effective light path of an afocal system which reaches the master lens through the iris. The optical lowpass filter has a shape to partially produce an optical lowpass filter effect with respect to a part of a beam in the effective light path.

Abstract: An air cleaner is provided on an upstream end portion of an intake air passage of an engine of a motorcycle and is fixed inside a fairing on the motorcycle ahead of the engine. The air intake opening of the air cleaner is directed inwardly of the fairing and can be positioned below the fuel tank. The air cleaner is provided on the inside of the fairing member opposite to a side stand on the motorcycle.

Abstract: The image of a subject imaged on the photoelectric conversion surface of a pickup tube of the color television camera is defocused in a given direction by a given amount to make a blur so that beat interference due to specific black and white pattern of the subject does not occur in the reproduced picture. In first and second embodiments of the present invention, at least one optical filter having specific characteristics is employed for defocusing the image, while in a third embodiment, an aperture stop is used to defocus the image by utilizing the aberration of the lens system of the color television camera. The aperture stop of the third embodiment may be used together with the optical filter(s) of the first and second embodiments.

Abstract: A parking brake mechanism for a motorcycle having a rear brake pedal which is to be depressed for applying a brake on a rear road wheel. An annular ratchet wheel is rigidly connected to the pivoted end of the rear brake pedal for simultaneous rotation therewith, and one or more pawls pivotally mounted within the ratchet wheel are spring biased into engagement with teeth formed on its inside surface. Normally, the pawls are held out of engagement with the ratchet teeth by a rotary cam ring. Upon angular displacement of this cam ring relative to the pawls, the ratchet mechanism functions to permit the rear brake pedal to be depressed but to prevent its return motion. The cam ring can be actuated either by a retractable footrest or by a hand lever on the steering handle of the motorcycle.

Abstract: A color television camera has a camera tube for receiving incident light from an image pickup object. It produces output signals representing an image of the object. The signal level varies in accordance with the incident light quantity assuming a constant target voltage. The system disposes of excessive incident light quantity. A control circuit lowers the voltage impressed on the target of the camera tube and controls the output signal level of the camera tube at a constant value, when the incident light quantity to the camera tube becomes excessive and exceeds a first predetermined light quantity. An indicator indicates when the incident light quantity to the camera tube becomes excessive, exceeding a second predetermined light quantity which is greater than the first predetermined light quantity. The resulting pickup picture deteriorates when the light exceeds a practical allowable limit despite the operation of the control circuit.

Abstract: A dark current correction circuit in a two-tube color camera having first and second camera tubes respectively for chrominance signals and luminance signals comprises a circuit for applying to the first camera tube a target voltage in accordance with temperature variation in the image pickup surface thereof, a circuit provided in the picked-up output signal system of the first camera tube and operating to compensate or cancel a dark current component within the picked-up output signal, a circuit for applying to the second camera tube a target voltage in accordance with temperature variation in the image pickup surface thereof, and a circuit for mixing with the picked-up output luminance signal of the second camera tube a horizontal blanking pulse at a level in accordance with the temperature variation in the image pickup surface of that camera tube.