Abstract: A flyback boost circuit includes an output voltage detection terminal provided to a secondary winding of a transformer of the flyback boost circuit, and configured to detect an output voltage. Prior to the start of a boost operation, current is supplied to a secondary side of the transformer via the output voltage detection terminal to detect a voltage generated at the output voltage detection terminal, to thereby detect an unwired state by determining whether or not there is floating of the output voltage detection terminal or a grounding terminal of the secondary winding of the transformer.

Abstract: A flyback boost circuit includes an output voltage detection terminal provided to a secondary winding of a transformer of the flyback boost circuit, and configured to detect an output voltage. Prior to the start of a boost operation, current is supplied to a secondary side of the transformer via the output voltage detection terminal to detect a voltage generated at the output voltage detection terminal, to thereby detect an unwired state by determining whether or not there is floating of the output voltage detection terminal or a grounding terminal of the secondary winding of the transformer.

Abstract: The dimensions of a magnetized pattern formed on a recording medium are varied, thereby causing the amount of toner attracted to the recording medium to vary, and thereby adjusting the printing density. This type of variation of the dimensions of the magnetized pattern is preferably achieved by varying the pulse width, that is, the duty cycle, of the recording clock which is supplied to a latent image recording circuit. This printing density adjustment method enables stable adjustment of the printing density.

Abstract: A borescope apparatus having a borescope and a pressurized fluid supply device. The borescope has an operation unit and an insertion unit. The insertion unit comprises a bending tube portion, a jet port member coupled to a proximal end of the bending tube portion, and a flexible tube portion. The bending tube portion can be bent by operating the operation unit. The jet port member has a jet port. A pressuring fluid is supplied from the fluid supply unit to the jet port member, and is ejected through the jet port. The flexible tube portion can be bent by a jet of the fluid from through the jet port independently of the bending tube portion.

Abstract: A stone disintegrator apparatus has a probe with discharge electrodes and a power supply circuit for supplying a discharge voltage to the probe for causing discharge between the discharge electrodes. An electrode life detection circuit detects the number of use or discharge operations of the probe so as to determine the remaining life of the discharge electrodes. A discharge inhibit circuit inhibits re-use or discharge of the probe when the life detection circuit detects an end of electrode life.

Abstract: An air and liquid supplying device has an air pump, a first feed liquid tank containing a first liquid, and a first selector valve connected to a feed air passage and a feed liquid passage of an endoscope. The pump is connected to the first selector valve by a air supply passage and the liquid tank is connected to the valve by a liquid supply passage. The air supply passage is connected to the tank through a pressurizing passage. The first valve is shifted between a first position where air from the pump is fed into the feed air passage and a second position where the first liquid is fed into the feed liquid passage. A second feed liquid tank containing a second liquid is connected to the air supply passage between the pump and the pressurizing passage. A second selector valve is connected to the air supply passage and shifted between a first position where air from the pump is fed into the air supply passage, and a second position where the second liquid is fed into the air supply passage.

Abstract: A liquid supplying device has a housing with a connecting portion to which a connector of an endoscope is connected. A lamp, an air pump and a liquid supply tank are arranged in the housing. The pump is connected to the connecting portion and the tank through a pipe. The tank is connected to the connecting portion through a pipe. A switching mechanism is connected to the pipes. A selector valve is connected to the pipe at a position between the pump and the tank. A control circuit is connected to the lamp and pump, and a light source switch is connected to the control circuit. When the switch is closed, the circuit drives the lamp and pump and switches the selector valve to a first position for blocking the pipe, thereby preventing supply of the liquid to the endoscope. When the switch is open, the circuit switches the selector valve to a second position for communicating the pipe. If the switching mechanism is operated under this condition, the liquid is supplied to the endoscope through the pipe.

Abstract: An air and liquid supplying device for an endoscope has a main body with a connecting portion and an air pump arranged in the main body. A first switch control valve is connected to an air supply channel and a liquid supply channel of the endoscope. A universal cord is connected at one end to a control section of the endoscope and at the other end to the connecting portion through a connector. A first air feed path extends from the first valve to the end of the connector through the universal cord. A liquid feed path extends from the first valve through the universal cord and communicates with a first liquid supply tank. The air pump is connected to the connecting portion through a second air feed path. A second liquid supply tank including second liquid is connected to the second air feed path. A second switch control valve is connected to the second air feed path to switch between the supply of air and the supply of the second liquid to the second air feed path.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming latent images in a magnetic printing apparatus provides a recording head having a plurality of channels. Among the plurality of channels, some channels are selected and set in accordance with the scanning line density. The selected channels are used in combination, and the loci described by succeeding channels will partly overlap the loci described by the preceeding channels.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming latent images in which all channel heads are used in different line density scanning. In the case of a multi-channel head having at least three channels which are positioned with a constant distance, the order of the arrangement of loci of the respective channels is made to correspond to two normal and reverse sets of line densities, so that recording at two different line densities can be made by one multi-channel head.

Abstract: A magnetic printing apparatus provides a recording head having a plurality of channels with different tracking widths. A locus is described by a preceding channel having a wide tracking width, another locus is described being partly overlapped on said locus by using a succeeding channel having a narrow tracking width. The width of locus described by the preceding channel is so corrected as will become nearly equal to the tracking width of the succeeding channel, while the overlapped portion of said locus is written into the succeeding channel.

Abstract: In a magnetic copying machine, a reflected light from an original copy is converted into an electrical signal, and supplied to a magnetic recording head to form a magnetic latent image on a magnetic recording drum. The magnetic latent image is developed by a magnetic toner, and the toner picture is transferred onto a recording paper. The transferred toner picture is fixed on the recording paper, and the remaining toner on the surface of the magnetic recording drum is cleaned after the transfer operation. When the copy magnification factor is larger than one, the pulse interval of clock pulses generated in synchronization with the rotation of the magnetic recording drum for reading out the electrical signal is made longer than that used with actual-size copying, and the movement of the magnetic recording head in the axial direction of the magnetic recording drum per one revolution of the magnetic recording drum is made larger than that used with actual-size copying.

Abstract: A ventilation and feedwater switching apparatus for an endoscope including a tubular member adapted to be fixedly mounted in an operating end of an endoscope, and adapted to have a ventilation tube and a feedwater tube connected to it, in such a manner that the tubular body is disposed in a ventilation path and a feedwater path. A cylindrical sliding valve body is slidably and removably fitted in the tubular body to permit switching between the ventilation and the water feed operation. The sliding valve body has an air discharge port at its upper end, and at its lower end an air delivery port which is normally closed by a check valve body which is detachably mounted thereon. In one preferred embodiment, a valve push rod is disposed in and extends through the sliding valve body, and forces the check valve body open in response to an external push.

Abstract: A connector for a light guide cable of an endoscope comprises a connector body having one end connected to a light guide cable and the other end flush with a light-receiving face of a light guide inserted in the connected body, an electrically insulating member surrounding the connector body, and contacts embedded in the outer surface of the insulating member. None or almost none of its members protrude from the forward end or the outer periphery of the connector, whereby the connector may be fitted into a receptacle in fluid-tight fashion and can be easily cleaned and fully dried after cleaning.

Abstract: A cleaning device comprises a fluid passage extending through the sheath of a forward view type endoscope and having one end located in the operation section of the endoscope and the other end located in the distal end section of the endoscope; a pump for supplying a fluid through the fluid passage from the operation section; a nozzle disposed in the distal end portion and communicating at its proximal end with said other end of the fluid passage; a reciprocating device for projecting the distal end portion of the nozzle from the distal end of the distal end section and retracting the nozzle into the distal end section; and a nozzle opening which is directed to an observation window provided on the distal end when the nozzle is projected from the distal end and which is closed by the distal end section when the nozzle is retracted in the distal end section.

Abstract: An endoscope having a plurality of observation optical systems comprises an elongated sheath, a distal end section connected to one end of the sheath, an operation section connected to the other end of the sheath, a plurality of optical fiber bundles extending through the sheath, an ocular section provided at the operation section, an observation optical system selecting section provided between the operation section and the ocular section and including a rotary member which holds the proximal ends of the optical fiber bundles and which is rotated to selectively connected one of the bundles optically to the ocular section, and identification mark elements in the fields of view of the optical fiber bundles. Each mark element lies in the field of view of the ocular section while the corresponding optical fiber bundle is optically connected to the ocular section, thus identifying the observation optical system used.

Abstract: In a duplicator, a reflected light from a document or an original copy is converted into an electrical video signal by an image pickup element, and the electrical video signal is supplied to a magnetic recording head to form a magnetic latent image on a magnetic recording drum, in the latent image forming mode. In the copy mode, the magnetic latent image is developed by a magnetic toner, and the toner picture is transferred onto a recording paper which runs through a paper transport path. The transferred toner picture is fixed on the recording paper, and the remaining toner on the surface of the magnetic recording drum is scraped after the transfer operation. A set value of a copy register is compared with a counting value of a copy counter by a comparator. When the counting value reaches the set value, a copy end signal is generated. With the pushing of a copy switch, a control portion of the duplicator operates, first for the latent image forming mode and then for the copy mode.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetographic apparatus wherein a large number of copies of the same picture is produced by repeatedly using a recording drum on which a latent image of the picture is recorded, which apparatus is different from a conventional magnetographic apparatus wherein a sequence of processes consisting of a latent image recording process, a process of developing the image and a process of transferring the image is effected for production of each copy. Further disclosed herein are structural elements of a magnetographic apparatus which are suitable for producing a large number of copies of the same picture by repeatedly using a recording drum as described above.

Abstract: An apparatus for supporting articles comprises a deformable, rod-shaped support assembly including a plurality of links interconnected by articulated joints, a plurality of constrictor plates each disposed at the respective articulated joint of the links, the constrictor plates being operable to lock or unlock the articulated joints in response to a hydraulic pressure applied thereto, a base for supporting the support assembly, one end of the support assembly being anchored to the base by a connector, a communication passage extending through the links and their associated articulated joints from said one end to the free end of the support assembly, hydraulic supply means for admitting or displacing hydraulic fluid into or from the communication passage through a path in the base, an article mount fixedly connected with the free end of the support assembly for detachably mounting an article thereon.