Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical scanning device, image forming apparatus and optical scanning method
- Patent Title (中): 光学扫描装置,成像装置和光学扫描方法
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Application No.: US13705378Application Date: 2012-12-05
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Publication No.: US09250440B2Publication Date: 2016-02-02
- Inventor: Naoki Miyatake
- Applicant: Naoki Miyatake
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2011-271938 20111213
- Main IPC: G02B26/12
- IPC: G02B26/12 ; B41J2/44 ; B41J2/47 ; G03G15/04 ; G03G15/01 ; G03G15/043

Abstract:
An optical scanning device includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit a plurality of light beams, respectively; an optical deflector having a deflection-reflection surface that deflects and reflects the light beams, each of the light beams being incident on the deflection-reflection surface at an oblique incident angle, the oblique incident angles of the light beams being different from one another; and a flat glass arranged to be tilted at a tilt angle with respect to the deflection-reflection surface in a sub-scanning direction, the light beams being incident on the deflection-reflection surface via the flat glass, the tilt angle being smaller than a largest one of the oblique incident angles of the light beams. The light beams deflected and reflected by the deflection-reflection surface are incident on a plurality of scanned surfaces via the flat glass, respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130147895A1 OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SCANNING METHOD Public/Granted day:2013-06-13
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