Abstract: An apparatus for use in a storage device having at least two clusters, each including a disk control device having a plurality of channel controllers that send and receive commands and data to and from an upper system, a plurality of disk controllers that control disk units, and a cache that temporarily stores data between the upper system and the disk units. The apparatus includes a first bus included in a first cluster. The first bus is connected to the channel controller, the disk controller and the cache of the first cluster. A second bus is included in a second cluster. The second bus is connected to the channel controller, the disk controller and the cache of the second cluster. A common resource is connected to the first bus of the first cluster and the second bus of the second cluster. The common resource includes a specified set of data which is commonly accessible from each of the channel controllers or the disk controllers of the clusters.

Abstract: A viewing apparatus with a photographing function, includes a viewing optical system by which an image of an object, formed by a positive objective optical system, is viewed though a positive eyepiece optical system, and a photographing optical system which is provided independently from the viewing optical system. The photographing optical system covers substantially the same field of view as that of the viewing optical system. The viewing apparatus satisfies the following condition: 0.1<ft/fo<0.7  (1) wherein ft designates the focal length of the photographing optical system, and fo designates the focal length of the objective optical system of the viewing optical system.

Abstract: A light-projecting device comprises an ocular optical system facing an emergent opening of a hollow pentagonal mirror. A light source is provided outside the emergent opening, to output an illumination light beam, by which a superimpose-plate is illuminated so that a focusing mark formed on the superimpose-plate is radiated. A light-projecting prism is provided beside the ocular optical system, to reflect the illumination light beam output from the light source, toward the emergent opening. The optical axis, extending between the light source and the light-projecting prism, is approximately parallel to the plane of the emergent opening.

Abstract: A viewing apparatus includes a viewing optical system having a positive objective optical system and a positive eyepiece optical system, an image of an object formed through the positive objective optical system being viewed through the positive eyepiece optical system; a photographing optical system, provided independently from the viewing optical system, for photographing the object image viewed through the positive eyepiece optical system; a first focusing mechanism for changing an image focal point of the object image formed through the positive objective optical system of the viewing optical system; a second focusing mechanism for changing an image focal point of an object image formed through the photographing optical system; an interconnection mechanism which interconnects the first focusing mechanism with the second focusing mechanism; and a release mechanism for releasing the interconnection mechanism so that the first focusing mechanism and the second focusing mechanism can operate independently of

Abstract: A focusing apparatus applied to a telescopic lens system includes more than two lens groups. The focusing apparatus includes two focusing mechanisms which are operable independently from each other, and are adapted to vary both absolute and relative positions of two lens groups in the optical axis direction.

Abstract: A superimpose-plate is put on a focusing glass, on which a subject image obtained through tile photographing optical system is formed. The superimpose-plate and the focusing glass are provided in an incident opening of a hollow pentagonal mirror. The superimpose-plate comprises a plurality of micro-prisms that are formed on the superimpose-plate. Each of the micro-prisms shows a triangle in a cross-section. The vertical angle of the triangle is identical in each of the micro-prisms. A ridgeline of each of the micro-prisms is parallel to the right-left direction of the picture plane of the view finder.

Abstract: A light-projecting device comprises an ocular optical system facing an emergent opening of a hollow pentagonal mirror. A superimpose-plate is provided in an incident opening of the hollow pentagonal mirror so that a subject image obtained through a photographing optical system is formed. The superimpose-plate is put on a focusing glass. A mark, indicated in a picture plane of the view finder, is formed on the superimpose-plate. A light source radiates an illumination light beam. A light-projecting prism reflects the illumination light beam toward the emergent opening. The light-projecting prism has a light-projecting plane. The light-projecting plane is located below the optical axis of the ocular optical system.

Abstract: A light-projecting device comprises a superimpose-plate, which is put on a focusing glass. A hollow pentagonal mirror has a roof reflecting plane, reflecting a light beam passing through the focusing glass and the superimpose-plate, a third reflecting plane, reflecting the light beam reflected on the roof reflecting plane, and an emergent opening through which the light beam reflected on the third reflecting plane passes. An illumination light beam output from a light source of a light-projecting optical system is reflected on a light-projecting prism, and radiated from the emergent opening to the third reflecting plane. The illumination light beam is reflected on the third reflecting plane and the roof reflecting plane, and is approximately perpendicularly radiated on the superimpose-plate.

Abstract: A viewing apparatus having a photographing function includes a viewing system including a viewing optical system, the viewing optical system having a positive objective optical system and an eyepiece optical system, an image of an object formed through the positive objective optical system being viewed through the eyepiece optical system; and a photographing system including a photographing optical system for photographing the object image viewed through the eyepiece optical system, the photographing optical system being provided independently of the viewing optical system. The photographing optical system includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The photographing system includes two focusing mechanisms, which operate independently from each other, for changing both absolute positions of the first lens group and the second lens group and a relative position of the first lens group and the second lens group on an optical axis of the photographing optical system.

Abstract: A cemented lens group includes two lens elements, cementing surfaces of the two lens elements being cemented to each other by an adhesive, wherein the adhesive forms an adhesive layer between the cementing surfaces. A filler made of minute solid material is dispersed throughout the adhesive layer. Alternatively, a spacer which determines the thickness of the adhesive layer is provided around the peripheral portions of the cementing surfaces.

Abstract: A liquid crystal monitor (LC monitor) illuminating apparatus utilizes a fluorescent lamp. The lamp is provided in a backlight portion to illuminate a liquid crystal monitor from behind. The fluorescent lamp is activated by a direct-current (DC) lighting circuit that is provided with a switching circuit which reverses the polarity of the DC lighting circuit. A digital camera with a liquid crystal monitor including an LC monitor illuminating apparatus is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an industrially efficient method for producing an L-amino acid useful as medicament, chemical agent, food material and feed additive, and the method comprising culturing in a medium a microorganism having an ability to produce the L-amino acid and having resistance to a DNA gyrase inhibitor or a microorganism having an ability to produce the L-amino acid and having both resistance to a DNA gyrase inhibitor and resistance to an aminoquinoline derivative, producing and accumulating the L-amino acid therein and recovering the L-amino acid therefrom.

Abstract: In a thermal ink-transfer recording material comprising a support, and a primer layer and a thermal transferring ink layer which are superposed on the support in this order, the thermal transferring ink layer comprising a binder and a colorant dispersed in the binder, the primer layer is constituted of at least two types of resins that are not compatible with each other so that the recording material is separable at the interface between the support and the primer layer.

Abstract: The image reading device comprises a housing in which a read object set portion, a light source set portion and an image sensor set portion are provided. A film, in which an image is recorded, is inserted in the read object set portion. An electronic flash is detachably attached to the light source set portion. A digital camera is detachably attached to the image sensor set portion. In the housing, a photographing lens of the digital camera faces the film, which is illuminated by the light source, so that the image is read by the digital camera. When the digital camera is detached from the image sensor set portion, the electronic flash is attached to the digital camera for illuminating a subject to be photographed.

Abstract: A camera including a photographing optical system and a finder optical system, includes an objective optical system and an ocular optical system, the optical axes thereof being parallel with each other; a reflection surface which reflects a light bundle in the vertical direction of the camera; a reflection surface which reflects the light bundle in the horizontal direction of the camera toward an light-emitting optical axis of the ocular optical system; and a reflection surface located on the light-emitting optical axis to make a connecting optical axis coincident with the light-emitting optical axis of the ocular optical system. The connecting optical axis is inclined with respect to the horizontal direction of the camera so that the optical axes of the objective optical system and the ocular optical system are close to each other with respect to the vertical direction of the camera.

Abstract: A telescopic lens system includes a positive first lens group, and a positive second lens group. The first lens group includes cemented lens elements having a positive lens element and a negative lens element. The second lens group includes a positive lens element and a negative lens element. The telescopic lens system satisfies the following condition: 0.6<&Sgr;|S1I|/&Sgr;|S1|  (1) wherein &Sgr;|S1I| designates the total sum of the absolute values of the spherical aberration coefficients (Seidel coefficients) of the first lens group, and &Sgr;|S1| designates the total sum of the absolute values of the spherical aberration coefficients (Seidel coefficients) of the entire telescopic lens system.

Abstract: An information recording sheet of the present invention includes a substrate sheet, a variable information recording layer formed on the substrate sheet and a fixed information recording layer formed on a part of the variable information recording layer and made of a subliming dye receptor layer.

Abstract: A printing material containing a white layer and an absorption layer formed on a base material made of a resin film. The base material may be black and opaque, while the white layer contains titanium oxide. The absorption layer may contain a protein and absorbs aqueous inks. The white layer is hydrophilic and thus highly compatible with aqueous inks which have permeated the absorption layer and reached the white layer, thereby giving a vivid image. The printing material may be used in an advertising poster adhered to a windowpane of a bus, etc. by forming a number of holes in the printing material.

Abstract: A telescopic lens system includes a positive first lens group, and a positive second lens group. The first lens group includes cemented lens elements having a positive lens element and a negative lens element. The second lens group includes cemented lens elements having a positive lens element and a negative lens element.

Abstract: A cemented lens group including two lens elements, which are cemented to each other by an adhesive; wherein an adhesive layer formed by the adhesive between the two lens elements has elasticity, and the following condition(1) is satisfied: