Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a nozzle for a sample processor, a carrier of a nozzle for a sample processor, a nozzle assembly for a sample processor, and a sample processor. The nozzle includes a body and an orifice. The body is adapted to be loaded and held in the carrier. The carrier can be slidably inserted into the sample processor in a detachable manner. The orifice is provided in the body and is configured to inject a sample from an injector body in a predetermined mode. An end surface of the body is adapted to abut against an end surface of the injector body along a sample injection direction. The nozzle assembly and the sample processor according to the present disclosure include the above-described nozzle and carrier. With the aid of the carrier, it is not necessary to install the nozzle to the injector body upstream of the nozzle, so that various adjustment operations when reinstalling the nozzle can be omitted, thereby simplifying the process of reinstalling the nozzle.

Abstract: A tilt shift lens adapter having an adapter body with first and second body portions configured to provide precision tilting and shifting functions is disclosed. Opposite sides of the adapter body are configured to respectively engage a camera and a lens. Tilting and shifting are precisely controlled using precision tilting and shifting mechanisms. The tilting mechanism includes a neutral setting for ensuring precise parallelism between the lens and camera flanges when required. The adapter includes a mount to provide good balance and holding strength when heavy lenses are attached. An optional aperture adjustment mechanism manually adjusts lenses having no aperture ring.

Abstract: A tilt shift lens adapter having an adapter body with first and second body portions configured to provide precision tilting and shifting functions is disclosed. Opposite sides of the adapter body are configured to respectively engage a camera and a lens. Tilting and shifting are precisely controlled using precision tilting and shifting mechanisms. The tilting mechanism includes a neutral setting for ensuring precise parallelism between the lens and camera flanges when required. The adapter includes a mount to provide good balance and holding strength when heavy lenses are attached. An optional aperture adjustment mechanism manually adjusts lenses having no aperture ring.

Abstract: An image capture device is provided including more compact components to enable the fabrication of more compact image capture devices. In one particular embodiment, a compact shutter mechanism is provided that requires less space within the camera when the shutter is open. In another particular embodiment, a rotary to linear switch is provided to reduce the amount of real estate required by the switch on the outside housing of the image capture device.

Abstract: An image capture device is provided including more compact components to enable the fabrication of more compact image capture devices. In one particular embodiment, a compact shutter mechanism is provided that requires less space within the camera when the shutter is open. In another particular embodiment, a rotary to linear switch is provided to reduce the amount of real estate required by the switch on the outside housing of the image capture device.

Abstract: A zoom lens system is provided including a flat cam for driving the zoom lens mechanism. In one particular embodiment, the same flat cam used by the zoom lens system is used to correlate the effective focal length of the zoom lens to the viewfinder. Additional particular embodiments of a viewfinder adjustment mechanism are provided wherein the viewfinder adjustment mechanism includes a diopter adjustment mechanism to adjust the ocular lens of the viewfinder to compensate for imperfections in the user's sight.

Abstract: An external lighting source for a camera is provided. A visible spectrum light emitting diode or diodes is/are used instead of the conventional gas tube flash mechanism of a camera to bathe a scene in bright visible light. A reflector directs the light from the LED(s) outward from the camera to illuminate a scene in a fairly uniform manner during the image capture period.

Abstract: A mirror-reflex camera, having a mirror support which supports a viewfinder mirror and can be adjusted between two end positions, a viewing position and a taking position. Latches are provided with the mirror support for latching in the end positions. Adjustable engaging levers are provided which engage in the latches in an engaging position and release the latches in a release position. A holding device (such as a plate) is provided for holding a driver. The driver can be adjusted along a driver track by a drive and can be moved in the holding device along its driver track within a distance which is limited by two bearing positions in the holding device. The mirror support can be adjusted above the holding device by the driver in these bearing positions. The engaging means, which can, in particular, be pivotable latching levers, can be adjusted from the engaging position into the release position by the driver.

Abstract: The invention relates to a crank drive, particularly to a crank drive for photographic cameras having a crank including a crankpin, and a drawbar pivotable about the crankpin. The drawbar consists of first and second rods connected to one another, and disposed in respective substantially parallel planes, which rods are joined or connected by a hinge having a hinge axis substantially parallel to the crankpin axis.

Abstract: A focal plane shutter for a photographic camera has a brake system for braking the movement of shutter elements just before they reach their end or stop positions. At least one first brake element has a nearly constant braking torque, and at least one second brake element has a braking torque that increases over the distance of the braking movement. The constant and the increasing braking torques of the first and second braking elements are combined and applied to moving elements of the shutter, and both the constant and the increasing braking torques of the first and second brake elements are independently adjustable and settable.

Abstract: A thin metallic blade or leaf of a photographic shutter, especially a shutter of the slit or focal plane type, is riveted to a trunnion which fits snugly but rotatably in an opening in a mounting plate. The trunnion has a circumferential groove intermediate its length, and the end of the trunnion remote from the shutter blade is of truncated conical shape. On the rear side of the mounting plate (the side remote from the shutter blade) there is a longitudinal groove extending tangent to the trunnion. A retaining wire in the longitudinal groove engages the circumferential groove in the trunnion, to retain the trunnion against being pulled axially out of its bearing opening in the mounting plate. In one form of the invention, the longitudinal groove for receiving the retaining wire is approximately twice the width of the retaining wire, and the wire is resilient and is held, at a distance from the trunnion, against the side of the wire groove which is toward the trunnion.

Abstract: Timing mechanism for timing an adjustable and controlled interval between commencement of movement of two light obstructing elements of a photographic shutter, such as commencement of movement of an opening blade or curtain, and subsequent commencement of movement of a closing blade or curtain. A cam operatively connected to the first element starts to move upon the movement of that element, and controls the movement of a first pivoted lever. There is a second pivoted lever spaced from the first pivoted lever and adapted to be moved from the movement of the first lever, through an intermediate adjusting member which is moved by the movement of the first lever and which, in turn, causes movement of the second lever. For adjusting the time interval, the adjusting member is movable toward or away from the fulcrum of the first lever, and simultaneously away from or toward the fulcrum of the second lever, thereby varying the transmission ratio from one lever to the other.