Abstract:
The optical module includes a sensing member, a main body and an adjustable mechanism. The sensing member includes an optical sensor. The main body guides an external light beam into the optical sensor. The adjustable mechanism is disposed at first edges of the sensing member and the main body for combining the sensing member with the main body and adjusting the relative distance or angle between the optical sensor and the external light beam. The adjustable mechanism includes a first adjustable element and a second adjustable element. The unit adjustable amount of the adjustable mechanism is equal to a difference between a first unit displacement of the first adjustable element and a second unit displacement of the second adjustable element.
Abstract:
An optical scanner includes a light source modulated based on image data, an optical deflection and scanning part deflecting a light beam emitted from the light source, and a scanning and imaging optical system condensing the deflected light beam toward a scanning surface so as to form a light spot optically scanning the scanning surface. The effective scanning region of the scanning surface is divided into a plurality of regions according to a scanning line curving characteristic. Suitable image data for optically scanning the divided regions are selected from image data of a plurality of image lines every time the light spot optically scans the effective scanning region, so that the image data of each of the image lines is written with scanning line curving being corrected.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an image input apparatus. The image input apparatus includes a board having an image sensor; a supporting member having a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion; a first fastening member; and a second fastening member. The image input apparatus is characterized in that the board is rigidly secured on the first supporting portion of the supporting member with the first fastening member installed in the first supporting portion, and the board is movably supported on the second supporting portion of the supporting member by the second fastening member installed in the second supporting portion.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus is provided with a scanning optical system movable to scan an original, the scanning optical system having a slit for passing therethrough part of light from the original, a sensor for reading the light passed through the slit, and detecting means for detecting the relative positional relationship between the slit and the sensor. The detection by the detecting means is effected at a plurality of detecting positions in the direction of movement of the scanning optical system.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has a scanning unit capable of forming a plurality of lines of an image simultaneously by scanning, in a main scanning direction, laser beam that has been emitted from a plurality of laser emitting devices. The apparatus has a memory for storing an error characteristic, in a sub-scanning direction with respect to an ideal scanning line in the main scanning direction, of a scanning line scanned by the scanning unit. A line on which image data is read out is changed over in accordance with a line changeover position in the main scanning direction based upon the error characteristic and a revised pixel position in the main scanning direction in the image data.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light irradiation device that allows a substrate to be positioned on an attached member, and also, prevents non-uniform luminance distribution in a main scanning direction on an original surface, and to provide an image reading apparatus and an image forming apparatus. SOLUTION: Three positioning pins 404 (protrusions) as a part to be positioned, integrally formed (molded) with a light guide plate 403 are inserted into three pin holes 404a and 404b as a light guide body positioning part, penetrating through a receiving base 405. The three positioning pins 404 are formed at three positions (center and both ends in a longitudinal direction) on the bottom surface of the light guide plate 403. Each of the positioning pins 404 is arranged between light emission centers of LEDs 192 so as not to face each of the LEDs 192. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus which forms an image free from distortion caused by bend of a scanning line without causing an increase in cost. SOLUTION: A DMA (Direct Memory Access) controller 209 is provided with a DMA controller 301. The DMA controller 301 is provided with a plurality of data buffers (811 to 818) to which different addresses in a subscanning direction are made to correspond respectively. The predetermined number of pixel data in a main scanning direction of the image data are held in the corresponding data buffer based on bend information. The pixel data held in each of the data buffers is output to an image memory 203 based on the address in the subscanning direction made to correspond to each of the data buffers. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform positional adjustment easily and quickly when a laser scan unit which can be handled as a black box is fixed to the frame while preventing increase in cost and size in an image forming apparatus to which an electrophotography system is applied. SOLUTION: A substantially semicircular recess 53 and an elongated hole 54 are formed in fixed portions 52a, 52b and 52c at three positions in the vicinity of the both opposite side faces 51b and the rear face 51c of the housing 52 of a laser scan unit 5, and a regulation member 30 is attached to each fixed portion 52a, 52b, 52c. The regulation member 30 is selected among a plurality of regulation members formed by pressing metal plates of different thickness, respectively, and functions as a spacer for regulating inclination in the vertical plane when the laser scan unit 5 is secured to the frame 13. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize excellent optical scanning by effectively correcting a scanning line curving in an optical scanner. SOLUTION: In the optical scanner to optically scan a surface to be scanned with a light spot, an effective scanning area is divided into a plurality of areas: Di (i=1, 2,...) in accordance with scanning line curving characteristic, and image data suitable for the optical scanning of the respective areas: Di is selected out of the image data on a plurality of scanning lines for every optical scanning, whereby a division writing system for writing the image data on each scanning line after correcting the scanning line curving regardless of the scanning line curving is performed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem wherein in handling tile image data, a conventional method of correcting bending for bit map image data cannot be applied as it is. SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus reads the tile image data including overlap of a line of interest and a line switching part in accordance with the bending of a scanning line, and stores the data into a specified position of a line buffer. A level difference of the line switching part in the image data read from the line buffer is smoothed to form an image, based on the line switching when storing the image data into the line buffer. Thus, when the image data of the processed tile occur in the line buffer, the image data of the tile are replaced with the image data of the tile located under the processed tile, with the image memory. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT