Abstract:
An image reading apparatus including a shading correction mechanism that can be formed by fewer component parts than conventional ones, and is increased in the degree of freedom of design, thereby enabling reduction of the size and weight thereof. A contact glass guides an original to an image reading position. A glass holding member holds the glass. A line image sensor reads an image on the original conveyed to the image reading location, through the contact glass. A reference member is disposed at a location different from the image reading location on the contact glass. A moving mechanism relatively moves the line image sensor and the reference member so that the line image sensor can alternatively read the original conveyed to the image reading location and the reference member. A drive section externally drives the moving mechanism to move the line image sensor and/or the reference member.
Abstract:
An image reader adopting an off-axial optical system, an adjustable imaging mirror and a CCD fixed to a highly rigid structure. Since the relative position between reflecting and imaging mirrors can be set highly accurately, adjusting only the CCD-mounting position allows a required specification of the read image to be met. The imaging mirror can easily be adjusted without distorting the reflecting surface. The reflecting and imaging mirrors, and the CCD-mounting-position adjuster are positioned directly to reflecting-mirror supporting sections, imaging-mirror supporting sections, and CCD supporting sections, which are integrated with a carriage casing, and fixed to them. The CCD is fixed to the carriage casing with the CCD-mounting-position adjuster. An imaging mirror close to a diaphragm and adjacent to the image is supported by a mirror adjusting plate, which can be displaced to adjust the position of the imaging mirror.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of adjusting an image reading apparatus which reads image information of an original by moving relative to the original a carriage retaining a light source, a slit portion, a plurality of mirrors, an imaging device including an optical element with an optical surface rotationally asymmetrical with respect to the optical axis, and a reading device, the method including placing an adjustment chart allowing resolving power evaluation in the sub scanning direction on an original table glass, illuminating the adjustment chart by the light source, and adjusting, by using an image of the adjustment chart thus illuminated, the relative positional relationship in the sub scanning direction among the slit portion, the imaging device, and the reading device by a positioning adjustment device such that imaging of the light beam passing through a slit center of the slit portion is effected on the surface of the reading device. By performing information through adjustment using the adjustment chart, there are provided an adjusting method of image reading apparatus and an image reading apparatus which provide high quality image.
Abstract:
An adjustable optical mechanism includes a carriage base, an adjusting board mounted on the carriage base, and a circuit board mounted on the adjusting board. An image sensor is mounted on the circuit board and corresponds to a lens mounted on the carriage base. Deforming the adjusting board and adjusting the position and tilt of the adjusting board relative to the carriage base, the position of the image sensor may be properly adjusted so as to obtain better image quality.
Abstract:
An image sensor sub-assembly for a scanner or other image acquisition device includes an image sensor array that detects light imaged by a scanner optical system and an image sensor module that enables calibration of the position of the image sensor array relative to the optical system. In this way, with the optical system being constructed within tolerances, the module enables alignment of the image sensor array to the optical system by its adjustment. Preferably, the sensor module is calibrated to defined standards, making the optical system's calibration independent of the specific module and the module's calibration independent of the specific optical system used in a given scanner. Preferably, the module enables positioning of the sensor array with six degrees of freedom. Further, the electronic circuit board, on which the sensor array is integrated, is separate from the board, on which the analog to digital converters are located. This has the advantage of enabling replacement of the analog to digital converters, a primary source of improper operation in the scanner's electronic components, without requiring the replacement of the optical sensor array, and thus re-alignment.
Abstract:
In an image reading apparatus having an easy-toad-just optical system, a unit is composed of a first sub-unit including an image forming lens and a second sub-unit including a solid-state image pickup element. The first sub-unit and the second sub-unit are mutually adjusted in position in X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis while the two sub-units are also adjustable around X-axis and Z-axis. After the first sub-unit and the second sub-unit are adjusted using a tool, the unit is then assembled into the apparatus. The unit is rotated around an optical axis of the image forming lens for adjustment of perpendicularity. The unit is also rotated around a line direction of the solid-state image pickup element for adjustment of scanning synchronization (the reading position in a sub-scan direction).
Abstract:
There is disclosed an image reading apparatus in which the scanning optical system having a slit is caused to scan in a short-side direction of the slit, and light passed through the slit and reflected from or transmitted through an original is guided to a solid-state image pickup element through an optical image forming element so that the image is formed on the solid-state image pickup element and is read. In the apparatus, opening portions for detecting a shift in relative positional relationship between the slit and the solid-state image pickup element are formed in both end portions of the slit in its longitudinal direction corresponding to a portion other than an effective image region of the solid-state image pickup element.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for adjusting an image reading lens unit that is capable of correcting residual aberration that cannot be fully corrected by rotationally adjusting a lens barrel and reading image information with high accuracy.SOLUTION: A lens unit according to the invention is used in an image reading device that forms image information of a document onto image reading means through the lens unit and then reads the image information. The lens unit comprises a plurality of rotationally symmetrical lenses, a lens barrel housing the plurality of rotationally symmetrical lenses, and an adjusting lens disposed at one end of the lens barrel. In a method for adjusting such a lens unit, the positional relation between the adjusting lens and lens barrel is adjusted, and the rotational relation of the lens barrel about the symmetric axis of the plurality of rotationally symmetrical lenses is adjusted.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an adjusting method of an image reader capable of obtaining high definition image information by performing adjustment using an adjustment chart, and to obtain an image reader. SOLUTION: In the adjusting method of an image reader for reading image information of a document by moving a carriage holding a light source means, a slit part, a plurality of mirrors, an image forming means including an optical element having an optical surface rotation asymmetric to the optical axis, and a reading means relatively to the document, an adjustment chart capable of evaluating revolving power in the subscanning direction is mounted on the document table glass and illuminated with the light source means. Using the image of the illuminated adjustment chart, an alignment adjusting means adjusts relative positional relation in the subscanning direction of the slit part, the image forming means and the reading means such that the center of slit at the slit part is focused on the surface of the reading means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image reader which adopts an off-axial optical system and in which an imaging mirror and a CCD-mounting-position adjusting means are fixed by a highly rigid structure and since the relative position between reflecting mirrors and imaging mirrors can be set highly accurately, adjusting only the CCD-mounting position allows a required specification of the read image to be met and the imaging mirror can easily be adjusted without distorting the reflecting surface when necessary. SOLUTION: The reflecting mirrors, the imaging mirrors, and the CCD-mounting-position adjusting means are positioned directly to reflecting-mirror supporting sections, imaging-mirror supporting sections, and CCD supporting sections, which are integrated with a carriage casing, and fixed to them. The CCD is fixed to the carriage casing with the CCD-mounting-position adjusting means. An imaging mirror close to a diaphragm and adjacent to the image is supported by a mirror adjusting plate. The position of the imaging mirror is adjusted by displacing the mirror adjusting plate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI