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- Patent Title: Optical deflector, optical scanning device including optical deflector, and image forming apparatus including optical scanning device
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Application No.: US16695581Application Date: 2019-11-26
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Publication No.: US10852656B2Publication Date: 2020-12-01
- Inventor: Shingo Yoshida
- 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: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2018-222217 20181128
- Main IPC: G03G15/04
- IPC: G03G15/04 ; G02B26/12

Abstract:
An optical deflector is configured such that a distance between a circumscribed circle of a rotary polyhedron centered on an axis of the rotary polyhedron and an inner peripheral surface of a peripheral wall of a cover member in a radial direction of the rotary polyhedron is largest at both of circumferential ends of an opening of the cover member.
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