Optical: systems and elements – Deflection using a moving element – Using a periodically moving element
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-12
2006-09-12
Phan, James (Department: 2872)
Optical: systems and elements
Deflection using a moving element
Using a periodically moving element
C359S205100, C359S207110, C347S244000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07106483
ABSTRACT:
An optical scanner includes a light source, an optical coupler, an optical line image unit, a deflector, and an optical scanning unit. The optical scanning unit includes scanning lenses that guide the beams to a surface to be scanned. A surface on the deflector side of the scanning lens closest to a deflection reflecting surface has a negative power in a vertical scanning direction, and is a special toric surface in which a radius of curvature in a vertical scanning changes from an optical axis of the lens surface toward a periphery of the horizontal scanning direction. An F number of the beams toward the surface to be scanned of the scanning lens in the vertical scanning direction is larger in a peripheral part than in a central part in an effective scanning width.
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Atsuumi Hiromichi
Hayashi Yoshinori
Izumi Yasutaka
Phan James
Ricoh Company Limited
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