Abstract: An automatic processing apparatus has mounts for exposed photosensitive material and a web. A take-up spool take up the exposed photosensitive material and the web so that they are placed in the contact with each other. A housing contains the mounts, the take-up spool, and a drive for the take-up spool. A lid pivots about a joint member connected to the housing to keep the housing light-proof when the lid is closed. A device for depressing a processing chemicals container interlocks with the lid. A coating device between the mount for the web and the take-up spool coats the processing chemicals on the web. A switching member detects the closing of the lid and commences the take-up operation for the exposed photosensitive material and web.

Abstract: A method for reading out a radiographic image by detecting the stimulated emission having an extremely high intensity. This high intensity is obtained by the choice of the Ar.sup.+ laser beam as a stimulating ray.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic recording medium which comprises a support, a magnetic recording layer and optionally a back-coating layer, at least of said magnetic recording layer and said back-coating layer containing a urethane resin having a yield point.The tape performances of the magnetic recording medium according to the present invention can be markedly improved by incorporating the urethane resin having a yield point.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image comprising a binder resin, a coloring agent, a compound selected from a group consisting of silica and a hydrophobic aluminum oxide or a hydrophobic titanium oxide.

Abstract: A range finder wherein the quantization of analog outputs from light receptor elements for converting an optical image into an electrical signal is accomplished by comparing the outputs from at least two of the light receptor elements in each group, by dividing the outputs into the following three cases: one output is greater than the other; both are equal; and one is smaller than the other.

Abstract: A heat-developable color photo-sensitive material having a support. On the support, there is a photographic component layer containing at least a photo-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a dye-providing material. At least one of the dye-providing materials in the photo-sensitive material is a polymer having a unit derived from a monomer represented by Formula I.

Abstract: In an electrophotographic copying machine of a type in which an original table is fixed, a wire is stretched over pulleys provided on two movable members so that a slit for scanning an orignal and a set of reflecting mirrors for reflecting light from the slit towards a lens may be moved at a ratio of 2:1.According to this invention, an endless wire having the opposite ends of the wire connected is used, and an adjusting screw capable of adjusting a spacing between both the movable members by turning the screw is provided at the connected portion, and focussing can be made by turning the adjusting screw. If this adjusting screw is made to expose to the outside of the copying machine body, focussing can be made from outside.

Abstract: A recording apparatus having an image carrier and a heated intermediate transfer member is disclosed. The improvement is the addition of a shielding member of porous metal for preventing water vapor and/or heat from reaching the surface of the image carrier, wherein the shielding member has a trapping capability for condensing and trapping the water vapor.

Abstract: There is disclosed a heat-sensitive transfer recording medium comprising a support and, provided thereon, a colorant-containing layer for heat-sensitive transfer, wherein said colorant-containing layer contains a silicone wax as a heat-fusible material which is solid or semi-solid at ambient temperature or room temperature.The recording medium according to the present invention is capable of printing at low energy and with high transfer sensitivity.

Abstract: An image reproducing apparatus wherein latent images are formed on an image retainer by a plurality of latent image forming device and the latent images are developed by developing means to which a developing bias is applied. The developing bias can be applied in accordance with the difference of the latent image forming device. One of the latent image forming device is a continuous tone latent image forming device and the other is a dispersed tone latent image forming device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide multi-layer color photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer combined with a non-diffusion coupler on a support, which comprises a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer farthest from the support which contains mono-dispersed silver halide grains comprising primarily (100) faces and having an average grain size of 0.2 to 0.8 .mu.m.The light-sensitive silver halide multi-layer color photographic material of the present invention has stable performance against fluctuations in developing processing conditions, has high sensitivity and low fogging.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed which contains a magenta color image-forming coupler represented by the following formula (I) and a compound represented by the following formula (II): ##STR1## wherein Z represents the group of nonmetallic atoms necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, provided that the ring to be formed by said Z may have a substitutent;X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of leaving upon reaction with the oxidized product of a color developing agent; andR represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent. ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 is an aliphatic group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group; andY represents the group of nonmetallic atoms necessary for forming a 5- to 7-membered heterocyclic ring taken together with the nitrogen atom, provided that at least two hetero atoms among the heterocyclic ring-forming nonmetallic atoms including the nitrogen atom are not adjacent to each other.

Abstract: An optical beam scanning apparatus wherein a beam shaping device for forming a flat light beam which has a large width in the scanning direction and which is substantially parallel with the direction of the optical axis is disposed between a light source and rotary polygonal mirror, and a cylindrical lens bent to have both ends in the longitudinal direction thereof approaching to the scanned plane is disposed between a condensing lens for condensing the light beam reflected by the rotary polygonal mirror and a scanned plane in the vicinity of the latter. The rotary polygonal mirror and the scanned plane are arranged to have a conjugate relation with each other from geometrical optics. The light beam is converged so as to generate the beam waist near the scanned plane.

Abstract: A silver halide X-ray photosensitive material has a support bearing thereon a silver halide emulsion layer. The layer has at least three kinds of silver halide emulsions whose photographic characteristics are substantially different from each other. Out of at least three kinds of the silver halide emulsions, at least one of them is a monodisperse emulsion E.sub.1 and at least another one of them is a polydisperse emulsion E.sub.2.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support and at least one light-sensitive layer. This layer has a plurality of silver halide emulsion layers substantially identical in color sensitivity, but differing in speed. The light-sensitive layer is comprised substantially of monodispersed silver halide emulsions A and B, each containing silver halide particles of the core/shell-type. The silver halide particle sizes of emulsions B and A have a ratio, when multiplied by 100, of less than 70 and the silver halide particles of emulsion B have a silver iodide content in their core that is not less than 5 mole % smaller than that of the core of the silver halide particles of emulsion A.

Abstract: In a process for forming an image comprising;(i) forming a latent image on a latent image bearing member comprising an organic photoconductive photosensitive member;(ii) forming a magnetic brush with a two-component developer comprising a toner and a carrier on a developer carrying member arranged as opposed to said latent image bearing member; and(iii) developing said latent image by brushing it with said magnetic brush in developing region;the improvement wherein said latent image bearing member and said developer carrying member move in the same direction in the developing region, and the ratio V.sub.S /V.sub.P of the linear velocity of said developer carrying member V.sub.S to the linear velocity of said latent image bearing member V.sub.P is within the range of 1.9.ltoreq.V.sub.S /V.sub.P .ltoreq.4.According to this process, an image which is free from fog, yet high in image density and stable for repeated copying can be obtained.

Abstract: A photoreceptor comprising a photosensitive layer and a support, wherein said photosensitive layer contains a polycarbonate compound binder selected from the group consisting of Formula A and B, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic, or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon ring, provided that at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 has at least 3 carbon atoms, Z represents a group of atoms necessary to constitute a substituted or unsubstituted carbon ring or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic ring, R.sub.3 to R.sub.10 in Formulas A and B are independently hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic, or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon ring, and n is a number from 10 to 1000.

Abstract: An original picture image recorder and method wherein a supplementary data display device for displaying supplemental data being copied in addition to original data is provided close to a document glass plate on which documents being recorded are mounted, and a device for preventing the background area of the display device in a display state from generating photographic fog on materials being recorded is provided. A light source for illuminating the display device as one for preventing photographic fog is provided separately from an exposure device for exposing the display device.

Abstract: As a projection optical system for a measuring projector, a telecentric optical system is required, and, moreover, it is advantageous when a zoom lens system is utilized. The present invention provides a telecentric zoom lens system to be used with a measuring projector wherein an iris is arranged between the lens groups to be moved for variation of magnification and wherein the iris is also moved at the time of zooming in order to prevent increase in the diameter of the front lens and increase in distortion which are caused when the telecentric character is given to a known zoom lens system.To arrange the iris between a second and third lens groups in a zoom lens system comprising four lens groups respectively having positive, negative, positive and positive powers and to enable to move the iris integrally with the third positive lens group, it is preferable to add a negative lens group between the two positive lens groups, i.e.

Abstract: An exposure optical apparatus with two sets of wire pulleys disposed on both sides of a carriage for optical scanning of a document, the wire pulleys working for drive and control of the carriage, wherein two sets of fixed pulleys are provided on an apparatus fixed zone and laid on corresponding ends of the wire pulleys to a common wire, and a stopper member for determining an initial position of the carriage is provided on the apparatus fixed zone, thereby setting an initial posture of the carriage. The wires of both the wire pulleys are constituted of a common single wire, two sets of moving pulleys are provided on both sides of the document board carriage, and the wires are laid symmetrically on an axis of the center of the direction in which the document board carriage moves.