Abstract: A hinge cap is provided which includes: a cap body having a top wall, a spout provided in the top wall and a side wall extending downward from a peripheral edge of the top wall; and an upper cap portion connected to the cap body via a hinge and capable of capping and uncapping the spout. The hinge cap is composed of a resin composition comprising polylactic acid and an aliphatic polyester resin other than the polylactic acid. The polylactic acid and the aliphatic polyester resin other than the polylactic acid are present in the resin composition in a mass ratio of (polylactic acid):(aliphatic polyester other than polylactic acid)=90:10 to 5:95.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a system for recycling an electronic-image recording apparatus such as an electronic camera, etc., which can be used again. The system includes a restricting device to restrict an image-capturing operation under a predetermined condition occurring after use of the electronic-image recording apparatus, a readout section to read a first image signal in the basis of an image signal stored in the electronic-image recording apparatus, a converting section to convert the first image signal, read by the readout section, into a second image signal, and a canceling section to cancel the image-capturing restriction set by the restricting device included in the electronic-image recording apparatus.

Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit including a main body; a photographic film, pre-loaded in the main body; an electronic flash unit; a shutter unit; a camera lens; and a diaphragm. In the lens-fitted film unit, a guide number of the electronic flash unit, a T-number determined from the camera lens and the diaphragm and a shutter speed of the shutter unit are determined so that A is not more than 8.5 when A represents an EV value of a reference exposure amount of the lens-fitted film unit under a stroboscopic photographing state minus 1.5; and intensity of a latent image, formed on the photographic film under the condition that a reference reflection panel being placed at a predetermined distance between 2-3 m from the lens-fitted film unit is illuminated by the electronic flash unit without other lights in the stroboscopic photographing state, corresponds to intensity of a latent image obtained under a photographing condition of photographing luminance not more than A+5.0 in EV value.

Abstract: A strobe circuit for use in a lens-fitted film unit is composed of a metallic thin plate punched in a circuit pattern; and insulating plate materials covering both obverse and reverse surfaces of the metallinc thin plate; wherein a part of the metallic thin plate is used as a component of the strobe circuit.

Abstract: The single-use camera has a main body in which is housed the film cartridge and around which a cover member is formed. On the main body of the camera is a closure and a spring which are used to close the light-shield cover in the film gate of the cartridge when the cover is opened to remove the film cartridge.

Abstract: A single-use camera which is loaded with a film cartridge having a light-shielding cover on a film gate thereof. The single-use camera includes: a cover for covering the film cartridge when the cover is at its closed position, a closing member for closing the light-shielding cover of the film cartridge, a stopper for keeping the cover member at the closed position, and a stopper release for releasing the stopper so as to allow the cover to be open while the light-shielding cover is being closed by the closing member.

Abstract: A single-use camera which is loaded with a film cartridge, having a light-shielding cover on a film gate, when the single-use camera is assembled. The camera includes: the film cartridge for accommodating a photographic film; a film-winding knob, capable of rotating, for winding the photographic film; a film detection member for detecting the photographic film at a position outside the film cartridge in the camera; and a mechanism for moving the light-shielding cover to a closed position where the light-shielding cover closes the film gate when the film detection member detects absence of the photographic film at the position.

Abstract: A one-time-use camera comprising a film cassette having a light lock pivoted open to permit film movement into the cassette interior and pivoted closed to prevent ambient light from entering the cassette interior and a locking pawl movable into engagement with the light lock when the light lock is closed to secure the light lock closed and movable out of engagement with the light lock when the light lock is closed to permit the light lock to be pivoted open, is characterized in that a driver is moveable in engagement with the light lock to pivot the light lock closed to allow the locking pawl to move into engagement with the light lock and has a void which prevents the driver from moving the locking pawl out of engagement with the light lock, whereby the driver can be pushed against the film cassette to push the film cassette out of the camera without any possibility of the driver being moved in engagement with the light lock to pivot the light lock open.

Abstract: An opening/closing mechanism is used in apparatus such as personal computers, word processors and liquid-crystal televisions, some of these apparatus.

Abstract: A variable focus camera includes a photographing lens constituted by at least two components, and changes the position of a magnification adjusting lens of a finder by a cam barrel of the photographing lens. In this camera, at least two magnification correction cams for extending the components of the photographing lens and having a focal-point correction function are formed on the cam barrel, and a magnification of the photographing lens is caused to coincide with a magnification of the finder by the magnification correction cams.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the improvement of an exposure control device in a camera having a centralized control system that has a built-in control circuit such as a microprocessor etc. and employing a shutter wherein an optimum exposure is obtained in a way that the exposure is given to the film between the gradual opening of the shutter and the closing thereof and the correlation between the shutter apertures and their corresponding lapse of time form a triangle on the graph. If further relates to the improvement of the exposure control means for flash photographing in a camera employing aforesaid shutter and a built-in strobe flash light source.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the improvement of an exposure control means in a camera having a centralized control system that has a built-in control circuit such as a microprocessor etc. and employing a shutter wherein an optimum exposure is obtained in a way that the exposure is given to the film between the gradual opening of the shutter and the closing thereof and the correlations between the shutter apertures and their corresponding lapse of time form a triangle on the graph. It further relates to the improvement of the exposure control means for flash photographing in a camera employing aforesaid shutter and a bulit-in strobe flash light source.

Abstract: A camera wherein a camera body is a rectangular shape and long sideways, a first camera parts accommodating chamber and a second camera parts accommodating chamber are disposed at the both sides of a film advancing unit including a film take-up chamber and a patrone chamber, respectively, and a rear cover is arranged such that its edge is positioned at the boundary between the film advancing unit and the second camera parts accommodating chamber.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the improvement of a camera which comprises effecting the winding of film and the charging of a shutter with a winding lever which oscillates and having an electric device actuated by shutter release operation, and provides a camera equipped with a safety device in which when the winding lever is retracted and not in use, a release locking device for preventing re-release, after the shutter is released, operates and thereby shutter release under the retracted state is prevented. The camera is also equipped with a safety device in which a circuit to an electric source is opened with the above retraction so as not to actuate the electric device when the camera is not in use.