A universal watch wherein the hour hand may be corrected incrementally by an hour or less in response to the pushing, pulling or turning a stem or shaft.

The present invention relates to a method for detecting a defect in a barrel portion of a bottle. The defect in the barrel portion of the bottle includes a thin blister and a longitudinal streak. The defect in the bottle barrel is detected by imaging the bottle barrel with a CCD camera based on light which has passed through a light shield plate having a plurality of oblique slits and the bottle barrel, and processing the image of the bottle barrel generated by the CCD camera to determine whethe...

A cooling apparatus arranged in a vacuum or reduced pressure atmosphere for use with an optical element having an illuminated area onto which light is irradiated concave part includes a temperature variation mechanism that changes a temperature of part of the cooling apparatus in a non-contact manner.

The connector consists of a connector housing having terminal accommodating chambers, and a terminal locking block which is mounted to the rear portion of the connector housing in two steps, first in a provisionally-engaged condition and then in a full-engaged condition. When the terminal locking block is half-coupled to the connector housing, a full-engaging projection member formed on the terminal locking block contacts an inclined guide inner surface formed in a locking block receiving openin...

A cooling apparatus arranged in a vacuum or reduced pressure atmosphere for use with an optical element having an illuminated area onto which light is irradiated concave part includes a temperature variation mechanism that changes a temperature of part of the cooling apparatus in a non-contact manner.

A cooling apparatus arranged in a vacuum or reduced pressure atmosphere for use with an optical element having an illuminated area onto which light is irradiated concave part includes a temperature variation mechanism that changes a temperature of part of the cooling apparatus in a non-contact manner.

An automatic inspecting apparatus has a function for generating a discharge signal for discharging a defective object at a predetermined position. The automatic inspecting apparatus comprises an imaging device for imaging a moving object, a sensor for detecting the arrival of the object, an image processing unit for processing images produced by the imaging device to detect defective objects, and a discharge signal generating unit for discharging defective objects at a predetermined position. An...

A belt-type transfer device which includes an endless belt rotating in contact with a photosensitive drum, with the belt being electrically charged by a corona discharger in a region of contact between the belt and the drum. A plate is provided for shielding the belt from the corona discharging in a vicinity of an outlet of the contact area to reduce electrostatic traction forces between the drum and the sheet in a vicinity of the outlet. The corona discharger may be located near an inlet of the...

An ion wind generator is arranged in the vicinity of a light source. The ion wind generator allows an air flow by negatively ionizing air by corona discharges using negative side needle electrodes, and drawing the negatively-ionized air using a ground side mesh electrode. High-temperature air surrounding the light source is drawn by the air flow and exhausted from an exhaust port at a rear side of a casing. An ozone decomposition catalyst filter is provided in the exhaust port. Ozone (O.sub.3) i...

An X-ray CT apparatus comprises three X-ray generating units, three groups of detecting elements and a reconstructing unit. The three X-ray generating units are arranged so as to make an angle formed by a first X-ray exposure direction and a second X-ray exposure direction on a rotational plane thereof be a same angle as that formed by the second X-ray exposure direction and a third X-ray exposure direction on the rotational plane, the same angle being smaller than 120 degree. The three groups o...