Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a system switch device having a board switch and a display unit separated from the latter, with which terminals units can be operated in a blind touch mode. The system switch device comprises: a board switch having switches and touch-operated mechanisms which give a sense of contact to the finger of the operator in response to the key operations of the switches, an electronic control unit operating to control terminal units according to switch signals from the board switch; and a display unit for displaying a selected content according to a switch signal from the board switch with the aid of the electronic control unit.

Abstract: A superconducting magnet coil, an insulating layer, and a superconducting magnet which do not generate quenching under cooled and operational conditions are provided by using a fixing resin capable of suppressing microcrack generation in a resin layer which causes quenching.A superconducting magnet coil manufactured by winding a superconducting wire and fixing the wire with resin and a method for manufacturing thereof, wherein said resin is a low cooling restricted thermal stress and high toughness fixing resin having a release rate of elastic energy G.sub.IC at 4.2 K. of at least 250 J.multidot.m.sup.-2, and/or a stress intensity factor K.sub.IC of at least 1.5 MPa.multidot..sqroot.m, and/or a stress safety factor at 4.2 K. of at least 3, and an allowable defect size at least of 0.3 mm.The superconducting magnet coil manufactured in accordance with the present invention does not cause quenching because microcracks are not generated in said resin when the coil is cooled to the liquid helium temperature, i.e.

Abstract: A cosmetic composition and an emulsion composition respectively comprising 0.1 to 99 weight % of an oily component and 99.9 to 1 weight % of a watery component are provided and the oily component in the compositions comprises 85 or more weight % of cis-.DELTA.9-octadecenoic acid or derivatives thereof and contains 90 weight % or more of a cis-.DELTA.9-alkenoic acid or derivatives thereof and 10 weight % or less of fatty adds other than the cis-.DELTA.9-alkenoic acid, derivatives thereof or other oily components. The cosmetic composition showing superior feeling in use and superior storage stability than conventional products and the emulsion composition showing superior stability of emulsion than conventional products can be provided because the oily component contains cis-.DELTA.9-octadecenoic acid or derivatives thereof in a high concentration.

Abstract: An image pickup device capable of white balance control, independent from the color of light source or from the change in color temperature, without the influence of the object of high saturation and with adaptation to the change in color of the light source, and also capable of avoiding unpleasant color shift not matching the direction of color temperature change, is provided by detecting the luminance of external light and the presence of flicker by the microprocessing unit from the output of a photometry sensor, then accordingly varying the clipping range of a clipping circuit, also switching the method of calculating the white balance control values R.sub.CD, B.sub.CD and varying the range of color correcting direction by the amplifiers.

Abstract: A dry process silver salt photosensitive material has a support and provided thereon a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming component. The photosensitive layer is incorporated with a compound selected from the compounds (i), (ii) and (iii).

Abstract: A dry process silver salt photosensitive material is disclosed which has a support and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer contains at least a photosensitive silver halide or photosensitive silver halide forming component, an organic silver salt and a pyrrole compound. The photosensitive material has a broad latitude for heat development and can form images with a high contrast.

Abstract: The disclosed image sensing apparatus includes a first circuit for forming a first signal to control gains of various color signals included in the outputs of an image sensing device in accordance with the levels of the various color signals, a second circuit for forming a second signal to control the gains of the various color signals in accordance with a color temperature of an object to be photographed, and a gain control circuit for controlling and determining the gains of the various color signals by mixing the first and second signals formed by the first and second circuits, in which a high accurate white balance adjustment is effected and the variation of the color temperature of the object is followed.

Abstract: A plastic foam material composed of a polyolefin based resin composition, consists essentially of specified amounts of polypropylene based resins and polyethylene based resins, included from about 20 to about 65 weight percent of a cross linked portion. The cross linked portion consists of from about 55 to about 95 weight percent of a cross linked polypropylene and from about 5 to about 45 weight percent of cross linked polyethylene. The amount of cross-linkage can be determined by a xylene extraction technique. The plastic foam material may further include specified amounts of a cross-linking agent and specified amounts of an organic thermodecomposition foaming agent. The thermodecomposition foaming agent decomposes at sufficiently high temperatures to yield a plastic foam material, which exhibits superior adherence properties and fewer deformities of its surface exemplified by swelling, shrinkage and wrinkling of its surface. A method to produce the plastic foam material is also disclosed.

Abstract: A superconducting magnet coil is produced by winding a superconducting wire to form a coil; impregnating the coil with a curable resin composition of low viscosity which contains for example at least one epoxy resin selected from the group consisting of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A, diglycidyl ether of bisphenol F and diglycidyl ether of bisphenol AF, all having a number-average molecular weight of 350-1,000, a flexibilizer and a curing catalyst, to obtain a curable-resin composition-impregnated coil; and heating the curable-resin-composition-impregnated coil to cure the composition.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes an optical system arranged to form an optical image, a photo-electric conversion part arranged to convert the optical imaged into an electrical signal, an A/D conversion circuit arranged to convert the electrical signal and/or an audio signal into a digital signal, a connector arranged to permit mounting and demounting a recording medium on which the digital signal obtained from the A/D conversion circuit is to be recorded, and a signal processing part for processing and converting the digital signal. The signal processing part is arranged to be mountable and demountable on and from the apparatus.

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material including a photosensitive layer formed on a support, the photosensitive layer at least containing an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, either a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming agent, and a sensitizing dye of the following general formula (I): ##STR1## where r is hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl or substituted amino; r.sup.1 and r.sup.2 are each substituted or unsubstituted aryl or r.sup.1 and r.sup.2 are bonded to each other to form a condensed ring; r.sup.3, r.sup.4 and r.sup.5 are each hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl; X.sup.1 is oxygen, sulfur, carbon, nitrogen or selenium, wherein when X.sup.1 is carbon or nitrogen, then X.sup.

Abstract: A headup display apparatus consists of a projection optical system unit installed in the dashboard of a car and a reflection member on the windshield. The projection optical system unit contains an indicator and an off-axis reflective hologram which reflects display light of the indicator toward the windshield, which in turn reflects it toward the viewing point of a driver. As a result, the display is seen superimposed on the exterior view. When external light as from the sun enters the projection optical system unit traveling in a direction reverse to the path of the display light, the off-axis reflective hologram reflects the incident external light toward a direction different from that of the outgoing display light to minimize an abnormal illumination of the indicator surface which would otherwise render the display unrecognizable. Behind the hologram is installed a heat dissipating member that receives infrared rays that have transmitted the hologram in order to dissipate heat.

Abstract: A heat developing photosensitive member including: a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming agent; and a supporting member for supporting the photosensitive layer thereon, wherein merocyanine dye having a structure in which a thiazole nucleus or selenazole nucleus and hydantoin nucleus, thiohydantoin nucleus or selenohydantoin nucleus are combined with each other by a combining group having a methine group is contained in the photosensitive layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel ultraviolet-shielding agent in a powder form consisting of particles of an inorganic material having a specified refractive index and a flaky particle configuration, such as mica, talc, sericite and the like, compositely coated with a water-insoluble cerium compound and amorphous silica each in a specified coating amount. A method for the preparation of such an ultraviolet-shielding agent is disclosed. By virtue of the excellent ultraviolet-shielding effect along with good translucency as well as stability and safety against human skin, it is useful as an ultraviolet-shielding ingredient in cosmetic compositions.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to reduce level differences and errors in a luminance signal and color difference signals. In order to achieve the above object, an image pickup apparatus has an image sensor for photoelectrically converting an object image and a plurality of delay lines for delaying a video signal by one horizontal period, so that a video signal derived from an output including a clock leakage component from the image sensor is input to the plurality of delay lines, including an adjustment unit for adjusting the signal level of the video signal at an input or output of at least one of the plurality of delay lines.

Abstract: In an electronic still camera including an image pickup element having color filters which are changed at one-pixel periods in a vertical direction, and the memory outputs from the image pickup elements are temporarily stored in a memory and are read out again to obtain frame data.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus having a discriminating circuit to discriminate a magnitude of an occupied area of a single object in a picture plane with respect to a video signal formed by an image pickup element from an object light when a white balance of the video signal is adjusted, wherein by controlling the white balance adjusting operation in accordance with an output of the discriminating circuit, the white balance can be preferably controlled even when the occupied area of the single object is large. Upon macro photographing as well, by making the white balance adjusting operation different from the operation in the ordinary photographing mode, the white balance can be preferably controlled.

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material is disclosed which has a support and a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a silver halide and a reducing agent, a water-soluble polymeric layer containing a water-soluble polymeric material, and a hydrophobic polymeric layer containing a hydrophobic polymeric material.

Abstract: A photosensitive material comprises a photosensitive silver halide, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a polymerizable polymer precursor, a photopolymerization initiator and a heat-diffusible coloring matter. As a preferred embodiment, the photosensitive material comprises a photosensitive layer containing the photosensitive silver halide, the organic silver salt and the reducing agent, a polymerizing layer containing the polymerizable polymer precursor and the photopolymerization initiator, and a coloring material layer containing the heat-diffusible coloring material. A image forming method employing the photosensitive material comprises the steps of a) subjecting the photosensitive material to imagewise exposure; b) heating the photosensitive material; c) subjecting to whole areas exposure at least the polymerizing layer; and d) heating at least the coloring material layer to transfer the heat-diffusible coloring matter to an image-receiving material, thus forming a color image.

Abstract: In a transuranium elements transmuting reactor core in which a reactor is charged with a plurality of fuel assemblies at a core and an amount of a transuranium element to be added is controlled so as to prevent a fuel element contained in the fuel assemblies from melting, the amount of the transuranium elements to be added to the fuel element is controlled so as to keep an excess reactivity of the reactor substantially zero through an operation of the reactor. A charging density of minor actinides is set to lessen outwards of a core central portion in a core area where a plutonium content is made even. The charging density of minor actinides is set high accordingly in an area where a plutonium is enriched high at the core of a plutonium enriched area where a plutonium content varies.