Abstract: In a photometering lens for an SLR camera in which object light transmitted through a finder screen and emitted from a reflecting optical member is received by a light measuring receiver, wherein the photometering lens has a light path for illumination light upon assembling the light measuring receiver, said illumination light being applied from said reflecting optical member toward the light measuring receiver, and wherein the position of said light measuring receiver is determined in accordance with an image of the light measuring receiver formed on the finder screen. An adjusting method of a photometering device having a photometering lens to adjust the position of the light measuring receiver is also disclosed.

Abstract: An optical deflecting device has a supporting member and a deflecting member. The supporting member is provided with an opening. The arced inner surface of the opening corresponds to spherical annulus. The deflecting member has an arced ring-shaped wall and a plane mirror. The arced ring-shaped wall is in slidable contact with the arced inner surface of the opening. Driving mechanisms are provided on each of two perpendicular axes. The point of intersection of the two axes being a center of the spherical annulus. The driving mechanisms rotate the deflecting member around the two axes.

Abstract: A light intercepting mechanism of a zoom lens barrel includes a movable lens frame which holds a frontmost lens group, and a drive ring which is fitted on an outer peripheral surface of the movable lens frame to relatively rotate, so that when the relative rotation of the drive ring occurs, the movable lens frame is moved in the optical axis direction. The movable lens frame has a dual-cylinder structure having a closed front end and an open rear end. The drive ring has a dual-cylinder structure having a closed rear end and an open front end. The movable lens frame having the dual-cylinder structure and the drive ring having the dual-cylinder structure are fitted one inside the each other.

Abstract: In-line roller skate equipped with an energization device including a boot whose sole is associated with an upper plate of a frame on a lower portion of which the skating wheels are arranged.

Abstract: An operation control device is provided in an electro-developing type camera using a recording medium which electronically develops an image formed by a photographing optical system. During a reading operation, in which the image recorded in the electro-developing recording medium is being read, if a recording operation is set by operation of a main switch, an enforced recording operation is started. During the enforced recording operation, pixel signals of one horizontal scanning line of the image are read through a line sensor. Then, a shutter is closed, a light source is turned OFF, and a scanning mechanism is withdrawn to a position at which the scanning mechanism does not interfere with the optical path of the photographing optical system. If a recording medium installed in the camera has not been recorded upon, a recording operation is started and an image is recorded in the new recording medium.

Abstract: A drive mechanism of a suction or deflection adjustment roll having a spur wheel gear. For a suction roll, a stationary suction box may be guided outward through the drive mechanism to be coupled with a suction device. An external gear ring may be rigidly coupled to a driven or gear end of the roll to mesh with a driven pinion. The driven pinion may be driven via a drive shaft coupled to the driven pinion through a pair of enmeshed gears. The driven pinion and an end of the drive shaft coupled to the pinion may each include a self-adjusting bearing, each self-adjusting bearing being adjacently positioned and supported on a bearing journal. The self-adjusting bearing associated with the end of the drive shaft may exhibit radial play with respect to one of an inside diameter of the drive shaft or an outside diameter of the bearing journal, which may permit tilting of the pinion with respect to the bearing journal.

Abstract: A camera with a built-in strobe includes a camera body and a camera grip provided in the camera body. In the grip, a battery, a spool and a main strobe capacitor are provided. An elongated space, with extends in the camera grip along the longitudinal direction thereof, is defined so as to be surrounded by the battery, the spool and the main strobe capacitor. A strobe circuit board is roughly formed into an L-shape so as to have a cutout portion, and a motor is arranged in the cut-out portion of the strobe circuit board. As a result, the motor and the circuit board can be housed effectively within the smallest possible space within the camera grip. Further, by this arrangement, it becomes possible to realize a small-sized camera provided with a built-in strobe.

Abstract: A production plan generating apparatus, and a method, are provided for generating production plans in sequential chronological order, from an ultimate downstream process in which a final product is produced, to all of the upstream processes required to produce components needed to make the final product. The apparatus includes an input device for inputting initial data including ultimate downstream process data, and a memory for storing the input data, machine data and process data, and a generator for generating a production plan for the final product, and upstream plans for the components and/or sub-components which are required in order to produce the final product.

Abstract: A flexible multipoint composition and bridging system is provided for video signal composition and bridging of a plurality of geographically dispersed locations. The system includes a centrally located bridging unit that receives video, audio and data signal substreams from each of the remote locations. Based on the data substreams from each location, the bridging unit resizes, cuts and pastes the various images into separate video montage images for display at each of the locations. The system enables users to optionally display video images or signals from one or more of the other locations within separate display windows at their respective terminals. The display windows can be zoomed, panned, scaled, translated, and partially or wholly occluded depending on a user's preferences or needs. The video images may be composed in signal space or entirely in transform space. Further, the flexible multipoint bridging system may be used for various applications, including video conferencing and broadcasting.

Abstract: A laser scanning unit emits a laser beam for scanning a surface within a predetermined scanning range. The laser scanning unit has a laser diode, and a laser diode controller for controlling the laser diode to emit the laser beam. The laser beam has an intensity set in accordance with image data corresponding to one of a plurality of predetermined graduation steps within an intensity range defined by a first intensity and a second intensity greater than the first intensity. The laser scanning unit is further provided with a first adjusting system for adjusting the first intensity to become a first predetermined intensity, and a second adjusting system for adjusting the second intensity to become a second predetermined intensity. One of the first adjusting system and the second adjusting system is actuated during each scanning operation, and are actuated alternately during successive scanning operations.

Abstract: An incubation limit marker for revealing the growth of contaminants present in a sample includes at least one strain or category of classically contaminant bacteria in dehydrated form which, once regenerated, will be present at a maximum concentration of 10.sup.3 CFU/ml. The incubation limit marker also includes a medium used for the dehydration of the contaminant bacterium or bacteria which includes a substrate capable of being degraded by the bacterium or bacteria. The incubation limit marker further includes an indicator of the growth of the bacterium or bacteria, for example, constituted by a colored indicator of changes in pH. A process for the "in vitro" detection of the susceptibility of pathogenic bacteria to various antibiotics present in MIC (i.e., Minimal Inhibitory Concentration) in culture or antibiogram media is carried out directly from the sample of the infected medium, in the presence of the above marker, used as a signal which limits the reading time of the antibiogram.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a dimension or aspect of a figure, such as a linear planimeter or a polar planimeter, for measuring a size and shape of a figure and having a calibration mode. The apparatus includes a carriage supported on a pair of rollers for movement along an axis. One end of a measuring lever is pivotally mounted to the carriage. A tracing member having a magnifying lens for tracing a figure is provided on the other of the measuring lever. A computer having a calibrating mode changing switch and a correction value recording switch are provided on the carriage. To calibrate the apparatus, the apparatus is switched into the calibrating mode by the calibrating mode changing switch and correction values are calculated based on a reference figure. Each correction value is stored in a nonvolatile memory of the computer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for maintaining a yarn take-up point stationary. A first sensor, such as an optical sensor, is positioned proximate a first location of a yarn travel path to output a first signal representative of the position of a yarn at the first location. A second sensor, such as another optical sensor, is positioned proximate a second location of the yarn travel path to output a second signal representative of the yarn at the second location. A controller controls a temperature of a fluid employed to heat the yarn. The controller receives the first signal and the second signal, which are analyzed to produce a heat control signal that is used to control the temperature of the fluid. The heated fluid is used to texturize the yarn, such that the yarn is tensioned and maintained so that a yarn take-up point is substantially stationary.

Abstract: A process for charging and discharging zinc/bromine batteries with a plurality of anode and cathode chambers into and from which anolyte or catholyte fluids are fed and drained. Metallic zinc is deposited on the anode and atomic and/or molecular bromine is deposited at the cathode, and bromine is bonded in an only slightly water soluble complex with a complex-forming agent from the aqueous phase. The anolyte and/or catholyte fluids are circulated periodically. The oleophilic cathode phase is separated from the hydrophilic cathode phase. Only the aqueous phase of the catholyte is circulated through the cathode chambers, and the times at which the fluid is circulated is dependent upon the temperature of the anolyte in the anode chambers.

Abstract: A branch joint box comprising: a base plate; and a pair of connector coupling portions which are, respectively, formed on opposite faces of the base plate so as to confront each other; the base plate being formed with a plurality of insertion openings for inserting therethrough bus bars each including an elongated base portion and at least one pair of tabs extending from opposite sides of the base portion, respectively; the insertion openings extending through the base plate so as to communicate the connector coupling portions with each other; wherein the bus bars are secured in the insertion openings, respectively such that the tabs project into the connector coupling portions, respectively.