Abstract: A motorized camera having a reversible wind-up motor, a wind-up transmission system whose speed reduction ratio is changed over between small and large values depending on the direction of rotation of the wind-up motor, a rewind transmission system whose motion is routed to the wind-up transmisison system through the roll of film when in rewind mode, and changeover control means responsive to the initiation of a rewinding operation for setting the wind-up transmission system to the small value of the speed reduction ratio.

Abstract: A multilayer analytical element for analysis of analyte in a liquid sample comprising a liquid sample-spreading layer, a reagent layer containing a diazonium salt, and a liquid-impermeable light-transmissive support, being laminated in this order, in which said reagent layer contains a sulfonic acid group-containing polymer having at least 10 molar % of a repeating unit selected from those consisting of a sulfoalkyl group and sulfophenyl group. The analytical element can be an element comprising a porous reagent layer containing a diazonium salt and the liquid-impermeable light-transmissive support, being laminated in this order.

Abstract: Apparatus for clearing the blocked reject end of a vortex purifier without interrupting the operation of the vortex purifier, the apparatus includes an opening device for detaching the bottom plug of the reject end of the vortex purifier and an exit aperture for conducting off the reject of the vortex purifier. For enhancing the operation of the device of this type known in prior art, a valve is provided connected to the reject end of the vortex purifier for the duration of opening the plug, and that the device extending through the valve can be removed and replaced with a cleaning member, with the aid of which the blockage remaining in the reject end in spite of the removal of the bottom plug can be cleared.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for determining the anomaly portion the output signal of a zero-seeking earth-horizon sensor for a geostationary satellite. The horizon sensor comprises a chopper disk operated with constant frequency, which chopper disk pictures the image of oppositely located earth horizons on a common infrared detector. When the thermal radiation of the two earth horizons is different the anomaly portion contained in the detector output signal can be determined in that the off-course signals are measured for different amplitudes of the chopper disk. Since the anomaly-dependent portion in the detector output signal depends on this chopper amplitude, correcting amounts can be determined for the measured values corresponding to the anomaly portion.

Abstract: In a camera which is provided with an electromagnetically driven lens barrel and is arranged to control a shutter by driving a rotor with an electromagnetic force generated by energizing a coil printed on the rotor, power supply to the coil is effected in a pulse-like manner for drawing out a photo-taking lens and in a continuous manner for driving the shutter.

Abstract: A support system for a multiple-span bridge constructed of reinforced concrete or prestressed concrete includes a primary structure and a secondary structure. The primary structure bridges the spans between intermediate supports or between an abutment and an adjacent intermediate support and includes serially arranged support members elongated in the long direction of the bridge. The width of the support members is a fraction of the full useful width of the bridge. The secondary structure forms the roadway slab and is supported on the primary structure. The secondary structure is made up of serially arranged individual roadway sections extending in the long direction of the bridge. The roadway sections are supported by bearing members resting directly on the support members of the primary structure with the roadway sections being closely spaced in the elongated direction of the bridge as compared to the spans between the intermediate members and the abutments.

Abstract: A weaving machine having a filling breakage detector for generating an error signal upon breakage of a filling thread. This error signal then stops the weaving machine. A pick finding process is then initiated in which the weaving program is set back and then blocked. After removal of any filling thread in the open shed, the weaving machine is operated until the preceding shed is opened enabling the removal of the filling thread. If this is the ruptured filling thread, it is replaced by a new filling thread, the weaving program is unblocked and the weaving machine is operated in its normal sequence. If the filling thread is not ruptured once or if another ruptured filling thread is detected in a preceding shed, the pick finding process is repeated. The cloth takeoff and the warp letoff are also set back correspondingly with the weaving program.

Abstract: An exposure control system for daylight and flash photography. In the flash mode with computer flash light device, the system accommodates for a variation in the otherwise fixed parameter of diaphragm aperture by taking into account the camera-to-subject distance. In one embodiment of the invention, the diaphragm value and the integrated flash light are varied with distance at equal rates to each other, reaching the maximum possible values simultaneously at a distance twice as long as that when the diaphragm is fixed. In another embodiment, these variables are increased one at a time, reaching the maximum value, after which the other is increased to effect an equivalent result.

Abstract: A camera having an automatic focus detecting device arranged to form a focusing data required for adjusting a phototaking optical system into an in-focus state is provided with switch means for allowing the automatic focus detecting device to operate; and a storing device arranged to store and retain the focusing data over a predetermined period of time even with the switch means turned off either before or after an exposure.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for protecting the surface of various kinds of shaped articles made of an organic polymeric material such as rubbers, leathers, woods, plastics and the like against weathering caused by exposure to ultraviolet light, ozone, moisture, etc. The method comprises providing the surface with a coating layer of a specific organopolysiloxane composed of difunctional, tetrafunctional and nonofunctional siloxane units in a limited molar proportion of 50-85%, 10-30% and 5-20%, respectively.

Abstract: Measured values are converted into electrical impulses for gauge devices and the like in a mechanism including a plurality of photocells arranged on a generally circular arc with a rotatable disc having angularly spaced radially extending slots arranged for movement relative to the photocells to energize and deenergize them in accordance with the angular spacing of the slots in the disc. Electrical circuitry operates to emit electrical impulses responsive to the energization and deenergization of the photocells and the photocells are mounted to enable their positioning relative to the rotational axis of the disc to be adjusted, thereby to enable adjustability relative to the emitting of the electrical pulses.

Abstract: A pipe-type housing for a shock absorber has a bearing eye at one end for a fastening member. The housing is formed of a welded or continuous seamless steel pipe formed at one end by hot or cold extrusion to provide a flattened portion with two spaced generally parallel surfaces. Each of the surfaces has an opening aligned with the opening in the other. A flange extends around each opening and projects inwardly relative to the flattened section toward the other flange, however, the flanges are spaced apart. In the deformation of the pipe a transition wall is formed between the flattened part and the remaining part with the normal pipe cross-section. A base is inserted into the normal pipe cross-section abutting the transition wall. The base is sealed with the inner circumferential surface of the pipe by a seal ring fitted into a circumferentially extending groove in the base.

Abstract: The disclosed erasing apparatus is capable of erasing a signal recorded on a magnetic recording medium from individual recording tracks one by one over an erasing width wider than the width of each recording track. A magnetic head receives an erasing signal from a generating circuit that generates an erasing signal including a sustained oscillation of low frequency outside of the frequency band of a recorded or reproduced signal and a subsequent attenuating oscillation of a frequency higher than the frequency of the sustained oscillation.

Abstract: An expansion dowel assembly is made up of an axially elongated generally cylindrically shaped dowel body and at least one wedge-shaped expansion member formed monolithically with the dowel body. The dowel body has a first or leading end which is inserted first into a borehole within which the dowel body is to be anchored and an opposite second end. A severable web connects the expansion member to the first end of the dowel body. Before insertion into a borehole, the expansion member projects outwardly from the exterior surface of the dowel body. When the expansion dowel assembly is inserted into a borehole, the web is broken and the expansion member, now separated from the dowel body, is displaced away from the first end within a wedge-shaped recess in the exterior surface of the dowel body.

Abstract: The clutch disc comprises for torsional vibration damping a spring system (35) dimensioned for operation under load and a spring system (51, 53) dimensioned for operation in idling. An idle motion device (5, 7) ensures that in the case of relative rotation angles in the idling operation the idling spring system (51, 53) exclusively is effective. In order to avoid jumps in the spring characteristic of the spring systems in the transition from idling operation to under-load operation, the idling spring system (51, 53) comprises at least one spring (53) which is brought into action within the rotation angle range of the idle motion device (5, 7) on approach to the under-load range and increases the spring rating of the idling spring system. Thus clutch and gear noises in this transitional range are avoided.

Abstract: A color solid state image pick-up device in which a color filter array is arranged so as to correspond to each picture element of the solid state image pick-up elements and the output from the solid state image pick-up elements is processed so as to obtain a pseudo-brightness signal, wherein at least one of the brightness signals includes a high frequency band component used as the image signal, the brightness signal including a low frequency band component and the brightness signal used as the color difference signal is obtained on the basis of the different output signal from that connected with other brightness signal.

Abstract: A buckle device for a water-proof camera is disclosed, including a buckle arm pivotally mounted at its one end to the camera housing, and a buckle body whose one end is pivotally mounted on the free end of the arm and whose opposite end has a bent-over lug from a pin on the back lid of the camera. The buckle arm has a spring-biased buckle lock member arranged to engage in a recess provided in the camera housing. By slidingly moving the buckle lock member against the bias spring, the buckle arm is released from the connection with the recess. In this releasing position, the buckle lock member then functions as a handle for taking the lug from engagement with the back lid of the camera housing. Therefore, the back lid is surely prevented from opening by accident.

Abstract: A shut-off valve assembly includes a housing which has a spherical plug arranged in a chamber. The housing has an internal thread into which a support element for a sealing member is screwed. On the outer end face of the support element is supported a flange bushing by means of a retaining nut. The pitches of the internal thread and of an external thread for the retaining nut are directed in opposite directions, so that the support element cannot be loosened when the retaining nut is unscrewed.

Abstract: In a high frequency induction heating device for a brake shoe lining, a high frequency induction heating coil is arranged to extend zigzag in a curved shape along the inner circumferential surface of the rim of a brake shoe body from one end to the other thereof and is opposed to the inner circumferential surface of the rim; at least three carrying rods are arranged to have their one ends discretely connected to two ends of each of the curved parts and to the middle of the length of the curved part of the coil on their one sides respectively while the other ends of the carrying rods are connected to a fixed supporting member; and the curvature of the curved part of the coil is variable by adjusting the lengths of the carrying rods.

Abstract: In separating a mixture of solid material particles including non-magnetic electrically conductive metals into a light fraction and a heavy fraction, where the light fraction includes the non-magnetic particles, the mixture is directed into an upwardly extending airflow passageway from an inlet channel extending laterally from the passageway. The inlet channel is spaced between the inlet and outlet ends of the passageway. An alternating magnetic field is provided adjacent the entrance of the mixture into the airflow passageway for accelerating the particles in the desired direction. The mixture is fed through the inlet channel into the airflow passageway in layer form, preferably as a single layer. A main flow of air passes upwardly through the airflow passageway from the lower inlet end and develops a highly turbulent vortex-like airflow. The airflow, in combination with the magnetic field, effects separation of the light and heavy fractions of the material.