Fiber optical element imaging and illumination assembly

Details Fiber optical element imaging and illumination assembly Fiber optical element imaging and illumination assembly

1978-08-28

1980-03-25

Wintercorn, Richard A.

Photocopying

Including fiber optics

350 9611, 350 9618, 355 70, G03B 2700

Patent

active

041948270

ABSTRACT:
A unitary optical element as provided together with a tubular light source and housing therearound to form an integrated optical assembly suitable for illuminating a line of a graphic original traversed across one surface of the assembly, such that an image of the illuminated line is formed on a photoreceptive surface traversed across another surface of the assembly. The optical element includes a linear array of optical fibers for conveying light reflected from the original onto the receptor surface, which fibers are optically coupled and integrally bonded to a light collection member such that light from the tubular source is directed onto the collection member and over into the sides of the fibers to emerge through the fiber end, thus directly illuminating a line on the original.

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