Abstract: The present invention relates to a laser processing apparatus for plasma-induced ablation having a laser light source for generating a processing laser beam, a focussing means for focussing the processing laser beam and an optical detection device for detecting the plasma radiation generated during an ablation, in which case the laser processing apparatus comprises an evaluation and/or control unit, the optical detection device being designed in such a way that it can output to the evaluation and/or control unit a signal dependent on the intensity of the detected plasma radiation, and the laser processing apparatus is designed in such a way that it can automatically be switched from a processing mode into a quiescent mode and/or from the quiescent mode into the processing mode, in a manner dependent on said signal.

Abstract: A disc cartridge housing a disc-shaped recording medium in a main cartridge body portion is disclosed. The disc cartridge includes a main cartridge body portion having a circular medium housing section for rotationally housing a disc-shaped recording medium, a recording and/or reproducing opening for exposing at least a portion of the disc-shaped recording medium to outside and a driving opening for allowing intrusion of a rotating driving unit adapted for rotationally driving the disc-shaped recording medium. The disc cartridge also includes a shutter mechanism having a shutter member rotated along the major surface of the main cartridge body unit in a region provided with the medium housing section to open/close the recording and/or reproducing opening and a plurality of cartridge supporting portions at plural corner regions of larger area outside a region provided with the medium housing section of the main cartridge body unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system composed of a monitor unit including a display and being driven by a battery and a base unit for transmitting image information to the monitor unit, which system is capable of charging the battery for driving the monitor unit without the need of provision of any special charging unit. The monitor unit has a configuration that a battery is mounted on a back surface portion and a stand is contained in the back surface portion, and also a groove portion is formed in a bottom surface and a charge terminal is provided in the groove portion. The base unit has a configuration that a holding rail is formed in a lower portion of a front surface portion and a charge terminal is provided on the holding rail.

Abstract: A battery pack charging device having a terminal which may be adaptively used even in case the battery pack is loaded in different loading directions to enable charging and detection of loading to reduce the cost. The battery pack charging device includes, in a loading section 4 or 24 in which a battery pack 15 or 30 is loaded, a charging terminal member 7 or 29, connected to a charging terminal unit 16 or 31, respectively, an actuation member 55 actuated by the battery pack and a detection switching unit 11 having switching elements 49, 50 opened or closed by the actuation member 55. The charging terminal unit 16 or 31 is mounted to a terminal block member 40 so as to be connected to the charging terminal member 7 of the first battery pack 15 or to the charging terminal member 29 of the second battery pack 30, respectively, in such a manner that the actuation member 55 can be actuated in the same direction by the first battery pack or by the second battery pack.

Abstract: Conveyor apparatus for transporting objects, having a continuous circulating guided conveyor line with drivers arranged at intervals from each other, wherein the conveyor line is constructed of continuous circulating guided individual lines, each of which has drivers arranged at intervals from each other, and where the individual lines can be adjusted relative to each other in terms of their circulating positions, so that the intervals between the drivers of different individual lines can be adjusted simultaneously.

Abstract: When a printed board is soldered by a dipping method, a great deal of dross is generated on a jet solder tank. The dross is a mixture of melted solder and oxide. A worker takes out the dross from the jet solder tank, and throws it away. Thus, a large amount of the solder is consumed. The present invention relates to a separating device for separating oxide and solder from dross. A container (21) is provided with a heater (22). A cover (24) is set over the container (21) to be freely attachable or detachable, and further a non-oxidizing gas supplying opening (28) is made in the cover (24) or the container (21). A stirring spatula (25) for stirring the surface of a melted solder (23) put into the container (21) is set near the surface of the melted solder (23).

Abstract: To both ends of a frame constituting a lateral pressure structure of headphones, support sections functioning as fine adjustment members for performing fine adjustments to the lateral pressure structure are attached. Paddings are provided on one of the ends of the support sections. When the headphones are worn, the paddings come into contact with a user's head. Earphone arm support sections are provided towards the tip of both ends of the frame, and earphone arms are rotatably connected to each of the earphone arm support sections. Earphone capsule sections are provided at the ends of the earphone arms. When external sounds need to be heard temporarily, the earphone capsule section can be released from the user's ear by rotating the earphone arm while the headphones are still worn on the head.

Abstract: A disk cartridge in which a pair of shutter members can be opened and closed smoothly and reliably, and a dust-proof property and an airtightness of a large opening portion can be increased by reducing a space between a pair of shutter members and a cartridge housing as much as possible. The disk cartridge comprises a cartridge housing in which a disk compartment is formed between an upper shell and a middle shell by overlapping the upper shell, the middle shell and the lower shell and the middle shell is supported by the upper shell and the lower shell so as to become freely rotatable, an optical disk rotatably stored within the disk compartment and a pair of shutter members attached to the middle shell in such a manner that they can be moved in the plane direction on the same plane. A shutter opening and closing mechanism for opening and closing opening portions by moving the pair of shutter members based rotation of the middle shell.

Abstract: A disk cartridge comprises a cartridge housing (12) having a disk compartment (16) formed therein by overlapping a pair of shells (13), (15), an optical disk (11) rotatably stored within the disk compartment (16) and a pair of shutter members (18a), (18b) attached to the cartridge housing (12) in such a manner that they can be moved and which close and open an opening portion (25) bored through the cartridge housing (12) so that a part of the optical disk (11) can be exposed, wherein the opening portion (25) is extended in the diametrical direction of the optical disk (11) through the central portion of the lower shell (15). Two optical heads can be used simultaneously by widening the opening portion into and from which the turntable, the optical head and the like are inserted and ejected as much as possible, and efficiency with which the optical head approaches the innermost periphery of the disk-like recording medium can be improved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel and a light guide plate are held by a holding member which covers at least a portion of a surface of the light guide plate remote from the liquid crystal panel. A circuit attachment plate supporting a liquid crystal driver circuit board with a liquid crystal driver circuit mounted thereon is positioned within the area of the liquid crystal panel and mounted on the holding member remotely from the liquid crystal panel with the light guide plate interposed therebetween. The holding member is molded of a resin material, and has positioning ribs for positioning a tablet sensor board on the holding member. A portion of the tablet sensor board that is positioned by the positioning ribs is inserted in an installation space defined between the circuit attachment plate and the holding member.

Abstract: A video camera capable of always stably performing adjustment of a flange back focus of a CCD. Three cam following ribs of three cam followers formed on a CCD holder are kept in pressure contact with three cams of an adjuster ring by means of three springs.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tape cassette in which two positioning holes is formed in the back surface of a cassette shell. One of the two positioning holes is formed into a circular shape and the other is formed into a long-hole shape. The positioning hole formed into the long-hole shape is divided into two parts in the major direction of the long-hole. An about half of the long-hole shape is used as a positioning hole and an about remaining half thereof is used as an information detecting (ID) hole for providing various kinds of information. A removable block piece is provided on an opening portion of said ID hole. With this configuration, the ID hole can be surely provided in the tape cassette, even if the tape cassette is miniaturized.

Abstract: In a projection apparatus projecting an image by using light of a light source contained in a housing, there is provided a light source mounting device in which when the light source in the housing is replaced, the light source is mounted and the light source is raised from a position of an opening used for taking in and out a light source to a normal position to make positioning, so that the light source in the housing can be simply replaced.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method for loading a head on a disc-shaped recording medium including a head to write data on and/or read data from the disc-shaped recording medium, a head supporting member for moving the head, and a moving member for moving the head supporting member to move the head in the radial direction of the disc-shaped recording medium. In addition, a head landing member is provided for landing the head onto the disc-shaped recording medium via the head supporting member. Further, a controlling member controls the head landing member and the moving member so that the head landing member lands the head onto the disc-shaped recording medium while the head is moved by the head moving member in the radial direction of the disc-shaped recording medium.

Abstract: An information processing device comprises a main body, a display part provided so as to be turned with respect to the main body, and a handle that is provided so as to be turned with respect to the main body on the same axis line as the turning shaft of the display part and is composed of vertical parts that are vertical to the turning shaft and a hold part connected to the vertical parts and arranged side by side at a specified distance from the turning shaft. When the main body is placed, the handle is turned to the main body side, so that the hold part is positioned under the bottom surface of the main body to incline the main body.

Abstract: A magnetic shield (20) for a cathode ray tube includes a body portion and a skirt section (21) around the body portion. The skirt section (21) has a skirt portion (23) having a free edge (25) and being connected to the body portion at its opposite edge (26), wherein the length of the free edge (25) is less than the length of the opposite edge (26).

Abstract: To easily know a correct direction of insertion into a recorder/player and assure a large width of an access opening through which the optical head approaches an optical disc, a disc cartridge is provided which includes an access opening (21) formed in a cartridge body (6) and through which a part of the recording area of an optical disc (5), extending between lead-in and lead-out areas, is exposed outside for data read and write, a pair of shutter members (25), (26) provided movably towards and away from each other to open and close the access opening (21); and a shutter open/close mechanism (27) having a pair of guide recesses (36a) and (36b) formed in a main side the of the cartridge body (6) obliquely in relation to the width of the cartridge body (6) to support the pair of shutter members (25) and (26), respectively, to be movable.

Abstract: An electronic equipment having a lever mechanism equipped with a button which when pushed operates an electric switch mounted to a printed wiring circuit board. The lever mechanism includes a first member having an end thereof which is bendably connected to the electronic equipment via a first elastic portion. A second member is also provided in this lever mechanism with an end thereof which is bendably connected to the electronic equipment via a second elastic portion. This elastic portion includes an arm for operating the electric switch. The first lever members are connected by third and fourth elastic portions mounted to the ends of the coupling member to transmit a displacement caused by the bend of the first lever member to the second lever member.

Abstract: To provide a new shutter open/close mechanism (26) suitable for use with a cartridge body whose front end is formed in an arbitrary shape for easily knowing a correct direction of insertion in a recorder/player, a guide recess (36) to support a shutter plate (25) movably is formed on a main side of the cartridge body (6) to be oblique relative to the width of the cartridge body (6). The shutter open/close mechanism (26) includes a guide member (31) supporting the shutter plate (25) and movably engaged in the guide recess (36), an operating member (32) to move the guide member (31), a transmission member (33) connecting the guide member (31) and operating member (32) to each other to transmit an operating force from the operating member (32) to the guide member (31), and support surfaces (37) formed on the cartridge body (6) to support the operating member (32) movably.

Abstract: A liquid crystal projector providing an image having a high luminance and excellent contrast, including a polarization plate which is arranged at an incident side of a liquid crystal panel and transmits a first polarized beam therethrough, a polarization plate which is arranged at an exit side of the liquid crystal panel and transmits an optically modulated second polarized beam therethrough and outputs the same to a projection lens, and a phase difference film having one of a phase delay axis or a phase forward axis which is orthogonal to the polarization axis of the polarization plate and arranged inclined at a predetermined angle about an axis of rotation comprising an axis parallel to the polarization axis of the polarization plate in the plane in which said phase delay axis or phase forward axis is formed.