Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reading module and image reading device and image forming apparatus therewith
-
Application No.: US15826070Application Date: 2017-11-29
-
Publication No.: US10440212B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Takaaki Murase , Kei Ouchi
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Stein IP, LLC
- Priority: JP2016-232303 20161130
- Main IPC: H04N1/028
- IPC: H04N1/028 ; H04N1/10 ; H04N1/113

Abstract:
A reading module has a light source, an optical system imaging, as image light, reflected light of light radiated from the light source to a document, a sensor where a plurality of imaging regions for converting the image light imaged by the optical system into an electrical signal are arranged next to each other in the main scanning direction, and a housing the light source, the optical system, and the sensor. The optical system has a mirror array where a plurality of reflection mirrors whose reflection surfaces are aspherical concave surfaces are coupled together in an array in the main scanning direction, and an aperture stop portion adjusting the amount of the image light reflected from the reflection mirror. The amount of the image light striking the reflection mirror is increasingly small from opposite end parts of the reflection mirror toward its central part in the main scanning direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180152582A1 READING MODULE AND IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THEREWITH Public/Granted day:2018-05-31
Information query