Scanning optical system, optical scanner, and image forming...

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2006-01-27

2009-11-10

Allen, Stephone B (Department: 2872)

Optical: systems and elements

Deflection using a moving element

Using a periodically moving element

C359S207600

Reexamination Certificate

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07616364

ABSTRACT:
A scanning optical system includes converges, with a single lens, a divergent luminous flux, which is deflected in a main scanning direction by an optical deflector, on a surface of a scan target. The lens has two surfaces in a biconvex shape in both the main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction, and at least one of the surfaces is a toric surface in which a line that connects, on a cross section in the main scanning direction, centers of curvature in a cross section in the sub-scanning direction is nonlinear, and change of the curvature of the toric surface in the cross section in the sub-scanning direction along the main scanning direction is asymmetric with an optical axis of the lens. The surfaces are anamorphic surfaces.

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