Abstract: An object is to provide a storage in which a door can be attached using a similar hinge without any trouble even at a time when the door is rotated in reverse and attached, the storage includes a main body; a pair of upper and lower hinges attached to the main body; and a door having one side rotatably supported by both the hinges to openably close an opening, at least one of the hinges has two attachment portions which cross each other at right angles in a corner and which are attached to the main body, and two pivot support portions raised from both the attachment portions and provided with a rotary shaft rotatably supporting the door, and both the attachment portions and both the pivot support portions have a shape which is symmetric with respect to a line passing through the corner and forming an angle of 45° with respect to both the attachment portions.

Abstract: A timing signal generating device capable of generating different kinds of signals is disclosed. A first, a second and a third data setting circuit each generate a particular kind of set data for generating corresponding timing signals. The set data are selectively set in a timing pulse generating circuit at the time of start-up of a camera or similar system, which includes the device, or in accordance with the operation mode of the system. The timing pulse generating circuit generates timing signals based on the set data. The timing signals are fed to a solid-state image pickup section and a signal processing section, causing them to operate in accordance with the timing signals.

Abstract: An object is to provide a storage in which a door can be attached using a similar hinge without any trouble even at a time when the door is rotated in reverse and attached, the storage includes a main body; a pair of upper and lower hinges attached to the main body; and a door having one side rotatably supported by both the hinges to openably close an opening, at least one of the hinges has two attachment portions which cross each other at right angles in a corner and which are attached to the main body, and two pivot support portions raised from both the attachment portions and provided with a rotary shaft rotatably supporting the door, and both the attachment portions and both the pivot support portions have a shape which is symmetric with respect to a line passing through the corner and forming an angle of 45° with respect to both the attachment portions.

Abstract: The invention has an object to provide a cold storage capable of simplifying a construction for pushing up a cooling unit and easily positioning a mounting position of the cooling unit. The cold storage includes a cooling unit integrated with a cooling box accommodating a cooler and a blower, and a compressor, a condenser and the like provided on a mounting base; a cold air discharge and a suction port formed in the bottom wall of a thermal insulating housing; fixing members having a stopper for positioning the cooling unit in a machine room such that a cold air discharge and a suction port correspond to lower sides of the first mentioned discharge and suction ports, respectively; and pushing-up members and operating arms for them, the pushing-up members causing the cooling unit to be pushed up toward the bottom wall of the thermal insulating housing by abutting against the lower surface of the mounting base on front and rear sides with respect to inserting direction of the cooling unit into the machine room.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a manufacturing method of a transition critical refrigerating cycle device in which a gas cooler and a sub-cooler constitute one heat exchanger so as to most efficiently cool a refrigerant in the device. During manufacturing of the transition critical refrigerating cycle device constituted by successively connecting a compressor, the gas cooler, a capillary tube and an evaporator and having a supercritical pressure on a high-pressure side of the device, the sub-cooler which cools an intermediate-pressure refrigerant of the compressor is disposed, the gas cooler and the sub-cooler are integrated to constitute a heat exchanger, and a ratio of the number of refrigerant pipes of the sub-cooler to the number of refrigerant pipes of the whole heat exchanger is set to 20% or more and 30% or less.

Abstract: The invention has an object to provide a cold storage capable of simplifying a construction for pushing up a cooling unit and easily positioning a mounting position of the cooling unit. The cold storage includes a cooling unit integrated with a cooling box accommodating a cooler and a blower, and a compressor, a condenser and the like provided on a mounting base; a cold air discharge and a suction port formed in the bottom wall of a thermal insulating housing; fixing members having a stopper for positioning the cooling unit in a machine room such that a cold air discharge and a suction port correspond to lower sides of the first mentioned discharge and suction ports, respectively; and pushing-up members and operating arms for them, the pushing-up members causing the cooling unit to be pushed up toward the bottom wall of the thermal insulating housing by abutting against the lower surface of the mounting base on front and rear sides with respect to inserting direction of the cooling unit into the machine room.

Abstract: A timing signal generating device capable of generating different kinds of signals is disclosed. A first, a second and a third data setting circuit each generate a particular kind of set data for generating corresponding timing signals. The set data are selectively set in a timing pulse generating circuit at the time of start-up of a camera or similar system, which includes the device, or in accordance with the operation mode of the system. The timing pulse generating circuit generates timing signals based on the set data. The timing signals are fed to a solid-state image pickup section and a signal processing section, causing them to operate in accordance with the timing signals.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a shutter for intercepting light incident to the image sensor. A controller determines a first exposure value based on the incident light and a second exposure value that effects lower exposure than the first exposure value. The optical image is photoelectrically converted over an exposure time that consists of a first and a second period of time corresponding to the first and second exposure values, respectively. At the end of the exposure time, the shutter intercepts the incident light to thereby end the second period of time following the first period of time. After the image sensor has output the first signal corresponding to signal charges generated by the photosensitive cells during the first period of time, the image sensor outputs a second signal corresponding to signal charges generated by the photosensitive cells during the second period of time. An exposure amount ratio is calculated between the first and second signals.

Abstract: A timing pulse generating apparatus generates a variety of timing pulses used for acquiring image signals from a solid-state imaging device. A horizontal-ROM stores pattern data representing timing pulses for one period first generated in a horizontal scanning period and repeat times of the timing pulses for one period in the horizontal scanning period. Appropriate pattern data is read from the horizontal-ROM and set in a horizontal-register. A timing pulse generating circuit generates timing pulses in accordance with a count value of a horizontal-counter and the pattern data set in the horizontal-register. Thus, the amount of the pattern data is small even if the repeat times of the timing pulses for one period in the horizontal scanning period are large.

Abstract: An electronic camera that reduces the consumption of electricity when an image is displayed on an LCD and is able to perform other signal processing at a high speed. Image data captured through an imaging unit is stored in an image memory and is then read from the image memory continuously or intermittently to an LCD drive circuit through a signal processing circuit and a video output circuit. While no video signal is applied in the case that the video signal is intermittently read, the LCD drive circuit suspends applying of drive pulses to the LCD and maintains a currently-displayed image on the LCD. On the other hand, while no image data is read from the image memory in the case that the image data is intermittently read from the image memory for the display on the LCD, the image memory can be freely accessed to perform other signal processing such as recording the image data into an external storage medium.

Abstract: A timing signal generating device capable of generating different kinds of signals is disclosed. A first, a second and a third data setting circuit each generate a particular kind of set data for generating corresponding timing signals. The set data are selectively set in a timing pulse generating circuit at the time of start-up of a camera or similar system, which includes the device, or in accordance with the operation mode of the system. The timing pulse generating circuit generates timing signals based on the set data. The timing signals are fed to a solid-state image pickup section and a signal processing section, causing them to operate in accordance with the timing signals.

Abstract: A solid-state image sensing device compensates for reset noise by integrated correlated double sampling to determine a difference between reference signal obtained in a feed through period and a video signal obtained in a video signal time period. The device reduces the effect of high-frequency noise through integration. The problem of small CCD output affecting the linearity of integration is compensated by an integration coefficient control device that controls an integration coefficient of an integrating circuit. The integration coefficient control device performs this control in dependence on an applied control signal. Under low light conditions, a control signal applied to the integration coefficent control device changes the integration coefficent so that an integrated value of the integrating circuit is enlarged. The enlarged integrated value of the integrating circuit provides improved linearity an makes the appartus less susceptible to noise from other circuits.

Abstract: A CCD signal read-out circuit is operative, upon receipt of a CCD signal outputted from a CCD, to output an output signal from which a reset noise has been removed through correlated double sampling. The CCD signal includes pixel periods each comprising a reset period, a succeeding feed-through period and a further succeeding pixel signal period.

Abstract: Offset cancelling circuitry for cancelling offsets among the reference levels of a plurality of video signals each being associated with a particular color. The video signals are each applied to a particular differential amplifier. A multiplexer and a sample and hold circuit multiplex the video signals so as to output the video signal through a single circuit. An analog-to-digital converter converts the multiplexed video signals to corresponding digital data. The color-by-color digital data are each averaged and the resulting mean values are used as correction data. Alternatively, the digital data from the analog-to-digital converter may be transformed to analog data and then fed back to the differential amplifiers as detected and integrated correction data. Further, the multiplexed video signals may be clamped by a clamp buffer circuit and fed back to the differential amplifiers. As a result, offsets among the video signals are cancelled via the sample and hold circuit.

Abstract: A refrigerating apparatus which is capable of accurate and swift correspondence to a transient change of a refrigerant circuit or an accumulated deviation of the degree of superheat of a refrigerant, thereby releasing the state in which the liquid refrigerant is flowing back to the compressor and the overheated state, and a method of controlling such a refrigerating apparatus. The refrigerating apparatus comprises a refrigerant circuit composed of a condenser, an expansion valve and an evaporator which are connected to each other in series, a means for detecting the evaporating temperature of the refrigerant, a means for detecting the exit temperature of the evaporator, and a control means for controlling the opening of the expansion valve on the basis of the evaporating temperature of the refrigerant and the exit temperature of the evaporator in accordance with a fuzzy reasoning.

Abstract: This open show-case has inner and outer air ducts, a first evaporator and a first blower in said inner duct (an inner evaporator and an inner blower, respectively), and a second evaporator and a second blower in said outer duct, said blowers circulating the air to form at least two layers of air curtains running between respective upper ports at the upper end of the front opening of said show-case and respective lower ports at the lower end of said opening.

Abstract: An image quality correction circuit for use with an imaging apparatus which converts a luminance signal so that an intermediate portion of the signal between preset minimum and maximum values is extended. The invention also relates to a device where color difference signals are corrected in accordance with the same nonlinear characteristic utilized in the correction of the luminance signal.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup apparatus of a charge transfer type includes a solid-state imaging device having an array of photosensitive cells with charge divider paths provided for sequentially receiving charges generated in the cells of a horizontal line to divide the charges into two groups for each pixel. For one of the two fields subjected to interlace scanning, charges generated in the cells of odd-numbered lines are transferred to its output port, and one of the two groups of charges for even-numbered horizontal lines adjacent to odd-numbered horizontal lines are discharged. Then, the output port effects addition with weight on the charges from the cells of the odd- and even-numbered lines to produce video signals of the odd-numbered lines. For the other field, on the other hand, charges generated in the cells of even-numbered lines are transferred to the output port, and one of the two groups of charges for odd-numbered horizontal lines are discharged.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a solid state imaging device in which pixels are arranged in a matrix. Row transfer lines and column transfer lines are each sequentially scanned so that video signals are delivered time-serially from the respective pixels to an output terminal. The row transfer lines are selected by a CTD which is scanned by drive pulses to sequentially and cyclically transfer charges therethrough. Gates associated with the CTD select one of the row transfer lines at a time responsive to a potential which is developed by the charges. The column transfer lines are selected by a shift register which addresses selection gates associated with the respective columns one after another responsive to a clock. The CTD may be assigned to the column transfer lines and the shift register to the row transfer lines. The apparatus is applicable even to a solid state photosensor arrangement made up of an array of photosensor elements in which case only one of the row transfer lines will be used.