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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325376 | Apparatus and method for wrapping bulk products An apparatus and method of bundling bulk items, such as for example papers and magazines, that includes applying a double-sided label to the top and bottom of the material stack, compressing the material stack, applying two binding materials around the material stac... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7096544 | Wrap-it An organizational device devised for the wrapping of articles. The device includes an elongate continuous elastic loop fabric strap. A hook fastener is imported at one end of the strap. The hook fastener is attachable to the strap at any location therealong. Once at... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6954311 | Image pickup lens unit and image pickup device Lenses 1, 2, and 4 as an optical element having a power are cemented together in an optical axis direction. An optical filter 3 is sandwiched between the lenses 2 and 4. Optical elements neighboring each other are cemented together... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6934096 | Optical device There is provided an optical device which comprises a fixed barrel, a movable cam ring, and collars and abutments. The movable cam ring is shifted relative to the fixed barrel to move an optical unit, the movable cam ring being fitted to the fixed barrel. Collars an... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6791766 | Method and device for holding optical member, optical device, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method A flange portion is provided to at least a part of the periphery at the center position in the direction of the optical axis of a lens. The lens is held with clamping members and a lens holding metallic part, with the flange portion pressed by the clamping members. ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6735025 | Holding device for an image-influencing optical component of an optical image-forming device and image-forming device in corporating such a holding device An image-forming device, especially an optical magnifying device, e.g., binoculars or a telescope, has an image influencing optical component, more specifically an eyepiece. The same is held by means of a holding device in such a way that the optical component is ax... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6721111 | Lens guide mechanism A lens guide mechanism includes a lens frame which supports a photographing lens group, the lens frame including a plurality of guide holes extending in a direction parallel with an optical axis; a support barrel in which the lens frame is provided; a gear holding m... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6717753 | Optical element and method for manufacturing same There is provided an optical element which can be handled with ease and mounted on a supporting means for supporting it with high precision and efficiency in the course of manufacturing it, and also there is provided a method for manufacturing such an optical elemen... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6710947 | Method for assembling lens elements A set of lens elements is assembled to form a lens by adjusting a first and a second lens element in a spaced apart optical relationship with respect to each other, then affixing the two elements in the spaced apart optical relationship by affixing a lens element ho... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6693751 | Member mounting structure and member mounting apparatus Disclosed is a member mounting structure and a member mounting apparatus for mounting a member such as a solid state image input unit in which mounting of the solid state image input unit can be achieved with high accuracy after positioning adjustment alo... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6674584 | Optical surface-mount lens cell An apparatus and method for housing an optical element are provided. A ring is configured with a symmetry that corresponds to that of the optical element and for bonding with the optical element on an optical surface at a periphery of the optical element.... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6671108 | Optical apparatus including lens There is disclosed an optical apparatus in which a lens holding frame is assembled on a frame member so that the lens holding frame can move along a plane substantially vertical to the optical axis of first and second lenses, a pair of gaps is formed betw... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6667839 | Holding device for an optical element made of a crystalline material A device is used to hold an optical element, in particular one made of a crystalline material, in particular of CaF2, while the optical element is being coated, in particular by the vapor-deposition of at least one functional layer in a vacuum ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6665132 | Optical lens system comprising at least one lens of a synthetic material The invention relates to an optical lens system (39) which is suitable for use in an optical scanning device (15) for reading and/or writing an optically scannable record carrier (9). The lens system comprises a first lens or objective lens (45) and a sec... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6657798 | Method for optimizing the number of good assemblies manufacturable from a number of parts A method for selecting parts for N similar assemblies, each assembly comprising M parts, is presented. A number pm of physical characteristics for each part of the at least M×N parts is recorded, and a value that a group of parts would have if... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6639741 | Projector lens holder A holder (2) of projector lens (1) is provided with openings through which springs (3) pass. The shorter arm (4) of said spring (3) presses said lens (1) against said holder (2), the longer arm (5) is pressed to the circumferential mantle of said holder (... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6606206 | Impact absorbent shifting device There is provided an optical device which comprises a fixed barrel, a movable cam ring, and collars and abutments. The movable cam ring is shifted relative to the fixed barrel to move an optical unit, the movable cam ring being fitted to the fixed barrel.... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6603613 | Reflection lens support structure A reflection mirror support structure, applied to support a reflection mirror of an optical scanner. Using three points or a single point and a line to construct a plane, projecting rib and projecting point are formed on a carrier to hold the reflection m... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6590721 | Lens support structure A lens support structure includes a tubular holding frame a flat holding surface orthogonal to a center axis of the frame, and a lens held within the holding frame with a planar part, orthogonal to the optical axis of an optically functioning surface, abu... | 07/08/2003 |
| 5980125 | Focusing method and frame for large-format cameras This invention relates to large, ie view-cameras and supplants the fixed conventional viewing screen by using instead a focusing frame partly or totally geometrically congruent with the sheetfilm holder for such a camera, said frame being temporarily inse... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5233380 | Film holder strap and film identifier An identifying strap for holding one or more film holders and identifying the film therein. After a sheet of film has been inserted in a film holder, identification of the inserted sheet of film is difficult without opening the film holder in a darkroom. ... | 08/03/1993 |
| 4653888 | Indicator for indicating the presence or absence of a photo sensitive material in a film holder An indicator according to the present invention is used to indicate the presence or absence of a photo sensitive material in a film holder. The indicator comprises a pivotal indicator element and a actuating element. The pivotal indicator element has a pi... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4456358 | Film holder apparatus for field and studio cameras A film holder apparatus for field and studio cameras in which one or more sheets of film are maintained positively locked within a film holder frame in a crimped position so as to preclude undesirable sagging, shifting and bowing of the film prior to or d... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4448508 | Cut film cassette with two film chambers A cassette with two chambers for discrete cut films has a centrally disposed plate-like partition with two identical sides, and a pair of identical covers each of which is adjacent to a different side of the partition and is pivotably attached to the part... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4074297 | Duplex cut film holder A holder for so-called cut photographic film sheets into which the inserted film sheet is provided with an initial position that is readily manually achieved. Specifically, the sides of the film sheet during insertion are advantageously located beneath th... | 02/14/1978 |
| 3978504 | Photographic superimposition device A photographic superimpositon device for maintaining photographic film in superimposed mutual position comprises a film holder having a rectangular frame having a first pair of spaced parallel members and a second pair of spaced parallel members perpendic... | 08/31/1976 |
