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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6021282 | Control apparatus for film advance drive motor in a camera A camera and method for controlling operation of the camera. The camera includes a film path for receiving a filmstrip and a transport mechanism for advancing the filmstrip along the film path. A motor connected to the transport mechanism is provided for ... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5723266 | Method of processing silver halide photosensitive material A method of processing a photosensitive material is provided in which change in photographic properties is not caused and reading properties for magnetic recording information of a photosensitive material including a magnetic recording layer does not dete... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5659831 | Detection device and method to locate film A detection apparatus for locating a film position detects the position with a simple structure. The apparatus uses a plurality of position detection holes for each picture frame in a film. The holes are repeatedly formed in the film in a certain arrangem... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5634161 | Sprocket mechanism for cameras A sprocket mechanism for cameras includes a sprocket consisted of a body and a raised annular portion, a positioning plate fitted onto the sprocket, and an electrical switch located near the positioning plate. The sprocket body has two opposite pairs of p... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5023640 | Film metering apparatus and method A film metering pawl suitable for use with a motorized film drive has a perforation sensing tooth with a sloping leading edge that allows the tooth to be cammed out of each perforation by the perforation leading edge during prewind/rewind. The pawl also h... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5008692 | Film metering apparatus and method with drive speed reduction A film metering mechanism has parallel pawl and blade elements with apertures that align in the beam of an infrared detector to slow down a camera drive motor when a pawl tooth senses a perforation during film advance, prior to reaching a drive motor stop... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4980710 | Film transport speed control The speed of frame-to-frame advance after exposure in a camera having a pawl which acts with a single perforation per frame film to provide frame registration with an aperture station is optimized without film distortion by generation of a motor control c... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4903061 | Metering control mechanism An expose-on rewind type camera is used with a film cassette having a film spool which can be rotated to unwind a filmstrip off the spool to thrust a non-protruding film leader to the exterior of the cassette, to enable the filmstrip to be prewound contin... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4248511 | Motorized still camera A motorized still camera has a housing which can receive film cassettes in a film chamber at the rear side of the housing. A motor-drive of the camera includes a motor which is located forwardly of the cassette take-up section, in direction towards the fr... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4222650 | Automatic camera A camera having powered mechanism for advancing a strip of film past a location at which the film is exposed to take a series of successive pictures on the film, with sensing means being provided adjacent the film and acting to respond to its longitudinal... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4202616 | Film-transport system for photographic still camera When the trigger button is depressed, a crank rod is pulled by a biasing spring in a first direction from a first to a second position triggering the shutter in the process, and an associated crankwheel drives a gear segment coupled thereto to an angular ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4196993 | Still-camera film transport system with end-of-film motor deenergization A still-camera film transport system includes a perforation feeler and cooperating perforation-detecting switch generating a perforation signal. A time-delay circuit initiates a time delay upon the commencement of film transport and generates a time-delay... | 04/08/1980 |
