Abstract: A multi-beam image forming apparatus includes: first and second semiconductor laser arrays each having n laser elements; a multi-beam generation unit that generates 2n laser beams by synthesizing laser beams generated by the first and second semiconductor laser arrays; a beam detection unit that generates synchronous detection signals to obtain synchronous scanning of the respective laser beams; and a control unit. The beam detection unit includes first and second beam detection units disposed substantially at a same position in a main scanning direction and adjacently disposed in a sub-scanning direction. The n laser beams of the first and second semiconductor laser arrays are detected by the first and second beam detection unit, respectively. The control unit controls image formation start positions of the 2n laser beams on the basis of the synchronous detection signals output from the first and the second beam detection units.

Abstract: A workpiece cradle and a clamp arm is provided, and an arm opening/closing cylinder 15 for opening and closing the clamp arm and the workpiece cradle are attached to a moving block 13. To a workpiece-cradle driving cylinder 23 provided with a piston rod 25 for driving the moving block 13, fluid is supplied from workpiece-cradle driving supply/discharge ports 27a and 27b formed in a manifold block 21. To the moving block 13, guide rods 33a and 33b are fixed and, to the arm opening/closing cylinder 15, fluid is supplied, from arm driving supply/discharge ports 34a and 34b formed in the manifold block 21, via hollow holes 36a and 36b in the guide rods 33a and 33b and via fluid supply/discharge paths 43a and 43b in the moving block 13.

Abstract: A workpiece cradle and a clamp arm is provided, and an arm opening/closing cylinder 15 for opening and closing the clamp arm and the workpiece cradle are attached to a moving block 13. To a workpiece-cradle driving cylinder 23 provided with a piston rod 25 for driving the moving block 13, fluid is supplied from workpiece-cradle driving supply/discharge ports 27a and 27b formed in a manifold block 21. To the moving block 13, guide rods 33a and 33b are fixed and, to the arm opening/closing cylinder 15, fluid is supplied, from arm driving supply/discharge ports 34a and 34b formed in the manifold block 21, via hollow holes 36a and 36b in the guide rods 33a and 33b and via fluid supply/discharge paths 43a and 43b in the moving block 13.

Abstract: A connection selection circuit is connected to laser elements of a first sub-array light source via a first circuit and also to laser elements of a second sub-array light source via a second circuit. The connection selection circuit initially connects a laser drive system to the laser elements of the first sub-array light source. When one or more of the laser elements of the first sub-array light source become defective, then the connection selection circuit connects the laser drive system to the laser elements of the second sub-array light source.

Abstract: A printer driver of the present invention informs the operator of some pieces of information specified on another tab during data input operations on a predetermined tab. This structure makes the printer driver easy to use. Composite image data stored as display image data into a display image memory include image data representing a Main tab CD3 and image data representing data of Paper Size and Printing Orientation input on a Paper tab CD4. A composite image including the Main tab CD3 and the data of Paper Size and Printing Orientation input on the Paper tab CD4 is accordingly displayed on a CRT. This structure informs the operator of the data specified on the Paper tab CD4, while the operator carries out data input operations on the Main tab CD3.

Abstract: A structure for transmitting a driving force from a camera body side to a cartridge chamber cover side in order to automatically operate a safety mechanism section of a safety locking mechanism installed inside the cover. The safety locking mechanism includes a locking mechanism section for locking the cover relative to the camera body; an unlocking operation member for manually releasing the locking mechanism section; and a safety mechanism section for selectively prohibiting or permitting the operation of the unlocking operation member. The driving force for automatically operating the safety mechanism section is transmitted from the camera body to the safety mechanism section through a winding spool of a film cartridge loaded inside the camera body.

Abstract: A rotary anode type X-ray tube is controlled by an X-ray emission control device. In the X-ray emission control device, the maximum permissible storage heat quantity which can be applied to the rotary anode of the X-ray tube is set, the anode storage heat quantity which is lowered based on the cooling characteristic of the rotary anode is calculated, the present anode storage heat quantity is calculated, and the imaginary anode storage heat quantity for the next X-ray emitting condition which is derived by calculation using the correction functions based on the anode input power, emission continuation time, anode rotation speed and focal point size, the anode input power of the next predicted X-ray emission, and X-ray emission continuation time is calculated.

Abstract: An apparatus in use of a film having information recording section, wherein a magnetic head is held with a head guide member which is disposed on a pressure holder, so that the magnetic head could be movable and rotatable in a perpendicular direction to a film plane. When an magnetic recording or reading is executed during a film feeding operation, the magnetic head may keep touching closely with a film plane, thereby an accurate magnetic or recording can be executed.

Abstract: A control device for feeding and positioning a film precisely, in a camera, a printing apparatus, etc., includes a photo interrupter with a light emitter, a light detector for detecting a light emitted from the light emitter, and a holding member for keeping both the light emitter and the light detector in position; a frame with a guiding member for guiding a film having a longitudinal edge with a plurality of perforations which travels between the light emitter and the light detector of the photo interrupter; a perforation detector for detecting a perforation based upon a signal outputted from the light detector, which outputs the signal each time a perforation of the film edge passes a location corresponding to an optical axis existing between the light emitter and the light detector; and a controller for controlling a film feeding operation in accordance with the detection of a perforation by the perforation detector.

Abstract: In an X-ray tube with a hydrodynamic slide bearing, an electron beam is caused to strike the focal point track area F on its rotary anode, which then emits X rays. An X-ray emission control device that sets the conditions for emitting the X rays stores as data the rises and drops in the temperature at the electron beam incident point and the other part on the focal point track surface of the anode. On the basis of the data, the input permission or inhibition conditions for the X-ray tube at every moment are calculated and the resulting conditions are displayed on a display unit. As a result, it is possible to perform a computing process in advance to determine whether or not X rays can be emitted under specific conditions without a permitting the rotary anode in the X-ray tube with a hydrodynamic slide bearing to melt and then display the results, thereby enabling a safe, efficient photographing control.

Abstract: A mechanism, for feeding a film with a photographing information magnetic recording area, of a camera. The camera including the mechanism has a cartridge holder inside which a film cartridge housing the film in is set; an aperture for defining an exposure field on the film; a magnetic head for writing/reading the photographing information; a take-up spool around which the film fed from the film cartridge is wound; and a drive motor for feeding the film between the film cartridge and the take-up spool. Both the take-up spool and the magnetic head are installed on one side of the aperture, and both the cartridge holder and the drive motor are installed on the other side, opposite to the one side in view of the film feeding direction, of the aperture.

Abstract: In an X-ray tomographic apparatus, while rotating a gantry rotary section around a region where an object to be photographed is placed, the anode target of an X-ray tube is rotated at a predetermined high rotation rate and X-rays are emitted from the anode target. In emitting the X-rays, the rotation torque is increased to be larger than that prior to rotation of the gantry rotary section in accordance with the rotation drive power supplied to a stator coil. A decrease in rotation rate of the anode target of the X-ray tube can be prevented even during rotation of the gantry rotary section, radiation at a necessary and sufficient X-ray dose can be assured, and an X-ray tomographic image can be properly obtained.

Abstract: In a rotating anode X-ray tube of this invention, a liquid metal lubricant supplied to bearing portions between a rotary member and a stationary member for instructing rotation of the rotary member is to be filled to a volume having a range of lower limit being an amount to fill bearing gaps, including helical grooves, and as an upper limit being 70% of the capacity of the interior in which the lubricant can flow, measured from the end portion of a helical groove slide bearing portion closest to the interior of a vacuum container. In the rotating anode X-ray tube, leakage of the liquid metal lubricant can be prevented, and a stable bearing operation can be maintained.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a rotating anode type X-ray tube, in the step of checking the rotational balance of a rotary structure to which an anode target is fixed and correcting the rotational balance as required, the rotary structure is fitted on a stationary support jig which sprays a high-pressure gas from its interior, in place of a columnar stationary structure, to set the rotary structure upright. The rotary structure is rotated at a high speed while spraying the high-pressure gas, and the rotational balance of the rotary structure is checked. The rotational balance of a rotating unit can be checked in the air easily and at high precision, and can be adjusted directly in the outer air as required.

Abstract: A rotary anode type X-ray tube comprises a thin gas passageway extending from a lubricant chamber formed along the axis of a stationary structure and open at a fine gap G effective for preventing a lubricant leakage. In manufacturing the tube, a liquid metal lubricant is supplied to the lubricant chamber and to a slide bearing section, followed by assembling the tube and, then, sealing the assembled tube in a vacuum vessel. In the subsequent exhausting step, an open end of the gas passageway is allowed to face upward. The particular exhausting operation permits completely releasing to the outside the gas impregnated in the bearing-constituting members and the liquid metal lubricant, making it possible to maintain a stable bearing function.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus that records a visible image on a recording medium by successively entering image signals forming an image. The apparatus comprises a standard pattern detector detecting standard patterns from the input image signals, image density measuring device measuring density of an output signal, image quality judging device judging image quality of every standard pattern output of the image density measuring device, and process controller deciding process parameters on the basis of signals output of the image quality judging device before controlling image quality of the output signal using the process parameters. The apparatus therefore can save the toner and paper and control for high image quality.

Abstract: A distributed information processing system which includes a server having a resume-request processor and clients having resume-request units or processor. An user at the client site operates a resume switch to save an operation state of the client in the server's magnetic disc, and resume it from the server's magnetic disc. The operation state includes contents of the main memory, contents of the display memory, values of the I/O registers for peripheral devices, and information about the file of the server being used by the application program run by the user. The user is able to use any client of the system in the same situation including a connection state between the file and the application program as before.

Abstract: In an X-ray tube apparatus of a rotating anode type, a stator surrounds an anode rotary structure and an insulating container section placed around the outer periphery of a stationary structure such that a portion of its coil conductor located near the anode target side constitutes an expanding flared coil conductor portion. Therefore, it is possible, for the X-ray tube equipped with an envelope having a large-diameter metal section and small-diameter insulating container section, to shorten the axial length from an anode target of the X-ray tube to a far end of the rotary structure and to suppress the build-up of electric charges on the inner surface of the insulating container section.

Abstract: An X-ray tube of the rotary anode type including lubricant passages or lubricant housing recesses formed opening at those areas of a fixed or rotary structure where spiral grooves of slide bearings are present so as to allow lubricant to be more reliably supplied to these grooves-provided areas. Even when the rotary structure starts its rotation or it is being rotated, therefore, the liquid metal lubricant can be more reliably interposed between those faces of the fixed and rotary structures on which the slide bearings are formed. This can prevent the bearings from being damaged and the operation of these bearings can be kept more stable.

Abstract: An X-ray tube of the rotary anode type includes a rotary structure to which an anode target is fixed, a stationary structure fitted into the rotating member, slide bearings arranged between them and provided with spiral grooves, and a lubricant consisting of gallium alloy and supplied to the slide bearings. The rotary structure includes a first rotating member to which the anode target is connected and a second rotating member provided with the bearings. These first and second rotating members are kept coaxial to each other and connected together at their those portions which are remote from the anode target when viewed in the rotating axis direction of the target and along a heat transmitting line extending from the target to the bearings, but heat insulating clearances and are formed between the rotating members at their other portions not connected. The first rotating member is made of one of those materials which have a heat conductivity smaller than 0.1 (cal/cm.sec..degree.C.) at temperature range of 0.