An optical interface including a base (71) with molded optical waveguides (74, 75) and overmolded electrical conductors (78, 79), with a keyway (72, 73) formed therein. A keyway mating portion (85, 86) molded around the ends of a plurality of optical fibers (26) to expose the ends of the fibers. With the keyway mating portion engaged in the keyway, openings (25) in a surface (24) of the keyway com...

An optical deflector comprises a deflector for deflecting an optical beam, a cover provided with a cylindrical portion covering a peripheral surface of the deflector, an opening portion provided in the cover to let the optical beam pass therethrough, and a nearly tubular projecting portion surrounding the opening portion while opening outside the opening portion. Another optical deflector comprise...

An image pickup optical system having an image pickup lens system (5) having in turn a plurality of lenses arranged in multiple stages for forming an image of an object on an image plane of an image pickup device is disclosed. The image pickup optical system includes a double refraction plate (6) arranged downstream of the image pickup lens system (5), a diaphragm unit (3), as a first optical unit...

A two-dimensional diffraction grating (5, 14) has a plurality of grating elements arranged in two directions (X, Y) different from each other. The grating elements in one of the directions (X, Y) have a substantially uniform grating height (h) when viewed in an arbitrarily chosen section along such one of the directions (X, Y) and, also, the grating elements in the other of the directions (X, Y) h...

A presbyopia correction contact lens to be used in contact with a cornea of an eye of a wearer, the contact lens having a substantially circular central correction region (2, 24, 27) and an annular outer correction region (4, 25, 26) which surrounds the central correction region, the central and outer correction regions providing one and the other of a near vision correction region and a distance ...

An optical device has an objective lens system including at least two lens groups (at least one of which is shiftable in the optical axis direction), a vibration detector for detecting a vibration of the objective lens system, and outputting a signal indicating the vibration of the objective lens system, a vibration compensation means arranged at a position other than the position of the most-obje...

In a plasma vapor deposition reactor for depositing an electrically insulating material using a DC sputtering process the plasma is stabilized, maintaining its sputtering efficiency, by provision of a secondary anode (22), preferably held at a positive bias with respect to the primary anode (15). The secondary anode (22) is shielded from exposure to the stream of sputtered material, yet situated c...

A flexible board electrical connector includes a housing having an opening on an upper corner and a plurality of contact channels on the opening; a plurality of contact elements fitted in the contact channels such that spring contact portions thereof exposed in the opening; a pressure member attached to the housing for rotation between a closed position where it is brought into contact with the co...

A pair of lever-operated connectors includes one and the other connectors which are connected together by using a lever, the one connector comprising a connector housing and the lever for connecting the two connectors. The lever has pins. The connector housing of the one connector comprises, positioning notches for positioning the pins of the lever to insert, slanting guide surfaces arranged benea...

Die Steckdosenbox weist ein aus einem Unterteil (1) und einem damit lösbar verbunden, haubenförmigen Oberteil gebildetes, langgestrecktes Gehäuse aus Kunststoff auf, in dem mehrere Steckdosen (3) in Reihe angeordnet sind, und auf dem Unterteil (1) im parallelen Abstand zueinander in Boxen-Längsrichtung zwei Stromleiter (SL) und ein dazwischen verlaufender Erdleiter (EL) in Flachstreifenform liegen...

In order to manufacture the rotor of a rotating electrical commutator, a blank (preform) (10) of the slip rings is produced, made of an electrically conducting material, by stacking pieces (16), which have an L-shaped cross-section, so as to form an outer tubular part (14) and parts (12) forming rings, projecting radially on the inside of the tubular part. The blank (10) is held between two plates...

A cable gland has a tubular body 1 provided with a counterbore 18 at one end providing an internal abutment shoulder for a tubular seal 2 received in the counterbore 18. The seal 2 has an internal apertured diaphragm 21 for sealing around an electric cable extending through the gland body 1. The diaphragm 21 is inclined towards the exit end of the gland body 1 and is prevented from reversing under...

Die Erfindung betrifft eine Vorrichtung zur Durchführung von Kabeln durch eine öffnung (3) einer Wandung (2) eines Gehäuses. Bei der Wandung (2) handelt es sich vorzugsweise um die Rückwand eines Schaltschrankes. Der Erfindung liegt die Aufgabe zugrunde eine Vorrichtung zu schaffen, die zur Durchführung von Kabeln unterschiedlichster Dicke geeignet ist. Die Aufgabe wird dadurch gelöst, daß mindest...

A linear electromagnetic driving apparatus includes a substantially rectangular tube-shaped magnetic yoke comprised of outer (9) and inner (10) frame plates spaced apart to form a gap (11) with at least one magnet (16) secured to an outer (9) or inner (10) frame plate to generate magnetic flux. A bobbin (14) supporting a coil (24) which extends in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of t...

A hybrid substrate, for example for use in a head of an ink jet printer, comprises an aluminum-based ceramic base substrate and a silicon layer provided on the base substrate. The substrate can be constructed to provide desired levels of flatness, workability, strength and thermal conductivity.

In order to convert an input frame/s progressive scan. format digital video signal (col. B), in which the frames are supplied as 2:1 interlace scan field pairs with the fields of each pair representing temporally identical portions of the input image, into a 60 field/s 2:1 interlace scan format digital video signal (col. G). Field pairs are combined to produce progressive scan format frames (col. ...

A stretchable nonwoven polyolefin fabric is produced by heat fusing a web of a mixed fiber containing at least 30 wt.% of a highly crimpable and heat-fusible conjugate fiber of polyolefin in such a manner that the area of each heat fusion point ranges from 0.007 to 0.8 cm<2> and the sum of the areas accounts for 10 to 40 % of the surface of the web and heat treating the web thus fused to crimp and...

A recording head for discharging ink by using thermal energy comprises a plurality of outlets for discharging ink and a substrate (100) including a common substrate plate (1) of P type, a plurality of electrothermal converting elements (RH1, RH2) and a plurality of functional elements (SH1, SH2) connected to the respective electrothermal converting elements (RH1, RH2) and formed on the common subs...

The method comprises the steps of:- developing at least one local motion vector for each pixel in the output image indicative of the estimated motion of that pixel; determining, as at least one global motion vector, at least the most frequently occurring local motion vector for the whole output image; determining, for at least one portion of the output image, as at least one respective interme...

A television standards converter comprises a motion analyzer (2) for analyzing the motion between consecutive fields of an input television signal of one television standard, and an interpolator (1) operative to align the fields pixel by pixel in dependence on the analyzed motion so as effectively to represent static pictures, and to effect conversion using said static pictures to derive the requi...