Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a process for producing an organic solid electrolyte capacitor which is diminished in leakage current, and an apparatus for use in practicing the process. The process includes the steps of completing a capacitor element by forming a dielectric oxide film over an anode body of valve metal and subsequently forming a cathode layer of solid conductive organic material over the oxide film, subjecting the capacitor element to an aging treatment, and forming a shell around the capacitor element.

Abstract: This invention relates to solid electrolyte capacitors and is intended to decrease the contact resistance between the body of the capacitor and lead frames and the internal resistance of these components The invention provides a process for producing a solid electrolyte capacitor by forming a dielectric oxide film on an anode body of valve metal, forming a cathode layer of solid conductive substance on the oxide film to prepare a capacitor element, coating the cathode layer of the capacitor element with a carbon layer, coating the carbon layer with a silver paste layer to prepare a capacitor body, and bonding a lead frame to the silver paste layer of the capacitor body with a silver adhesive. While the capacitor element coated with the carbon layer and a silver paste are being vibrated relative to each other, the capacitor element is dipped in the silver paste and withdrawn therefrom in the direction of the vibration, whereby the carbon layer is coated with the silver paste layer.

Abstract: The camera arranged at the eyepiece section of an endoscope has a photometric circuit for generating observation and photographing light control signals selectively to control the brightness of observation light and the amount of photographing light. The light supply unit has observation and photographing light control circuits, said observation light control circuit serving to control the amount of current supplied to the observation light source correspondingly to the observation light signal applied through the photometric circuit in the camera and said photographing light circuit serving to control the light irradiation time of the photographing light source or electronic flash tube correspondingly to the photographing light control signal.

Abstract: An endoscope system is provided with a pump for feeding air into a body cavity through an endoscope, and a pump driving circuit for adjusting current to be supplied to the pump. Control data for controlling the pump is stored in an ROM. While the ROM is held in an enabling state by a chip selector according to setting data from switches and a zerocross detector, the control data is read out from the ROM by a CPU, and the pump is driven in accordance with the control data. If the ROM is not in the enabling state although the CPU is fetching the setting data and control data, then an alarm signal is delivered from a NOR gate, and the pump is driven so as to provide a maximum quantity of air supply.

Abstract: An endoscope and an electrosurgical device are assembled such that when endoscopic operation is started during electrosurgical operation conducted with the output of the electrosurgical device, the output of the electrosurgical device is interrupted until the photographing is ended.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus comprises a light source unit including a controlling station transmission circuit to serve as a controlling station, and an endoscope unit and an endoscopic camera unit individually including controlled station transmission circuits to serve as controlled stations. The controlling station transmission circuit checks unregistered addresses on its own address table a fixed number of times every time an operation sequence is completed. If a unit connected to the light source unit is an unregistered unit, the address of the unregistered unit is registered on one of the unregistered addresses on the address table.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus is composed of an endoscope unit, a light source unit and a camera unit. The light source unit has a control station transmission circuit which becomes a control station. When the camera unit is mounted in the endoscope unit and the self address codes transmitted from the controlled station transmission circuit of the camera unit by n times are received by the control station transmission circuit of the light source unit by m times, the control station transmission circuit identifies the connection of the camera unit.

Abstract: An endoscopic photographing apparatus comprises an endoscope, an endoscopic camera and a light supply unit. A CPU is incorporated into at least one of the endoscopic camera and light supply unit to discriminate the kind of the other. The CPU achieves its kind discrimination depending upon whether a response is present or not after a certain time period since the generation of a flag signal. Further, the CPU achieves its kind discrimination depending upon whether it receives the flag signal or not within a certain time period since the start of its operation.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes an endoscope, light source unit and photographic attachment are connected to a centralized supervision-control device which collectively supervises and controls the overall operating condition of the endoscope, light source unit and photographic attachment.