Abstract:
A lens module includes a non-cylinder lens and a clamping apparatus. The clamping apparatus includes a base, two side parts, and a top part. Two side parts are disposed on two ends of the base to form a containing trough for holding the lens. One end of the top part is connected to one side part and the other end is fixed on the other side part. Two screw holes on the top part allow two adjusting screws to be screwed into for pressing the lens. Two elastic devices provide the elasticity between the lens and the base and the relative height of two sides of the lens is adjusted by turning the two adjusting screws.
Abstract:
An optical reflection panel made of thermosetting plastic material as a substrate is disclosed. One surface of the substrate is coated with an adherent layer and then an optical reflecting layer is formed on the adherent layer as a reflecting surface for reflecting a light beam. The other surface of the substrate is formed with a reinforcing structure. The reinforcing structure serves to increase the mechanical strength of the optical reflection panel and control the deformation amount. The reinforcing structure includes a number of reinforcing ribs extending along the longitudinal axis of the optical reflection panel and a number of reinforcing ribs perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the optical reflection panel.
Abstract:
An illuminating device includes a light-emitting element that is mounted on a base material and a light-guiding member that guides light from the light-emitting element to an irradiation target, and illuminates the irradiation target with the light transmitted through the light-guiding member. The light-guiding member includes an extending portion that extends from the surface of the base material on which the light-emitting element is mounted to a left side end portion of the base material so as to cover the left side end portion. An image-reading includes this illuminating device. Image-forming apparatus includes this image-reading apparatus.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique with which the surface shape of an original document is read as under desired conditions. SOLUTION: An image scanner 10 includes lighting devices 40a and 40b irradiating an original 90 with light from directions DLa and DLb intersecting with each other, and reads the original 90 in a lighting mode selected based on an instruction input from a user out of: a one line lighting mode in which either one of the lighting devices 40a and 40b irradiates the original 90; and a two line lighting mode in which both of the lighting devices 40a and 40b irradiate the original 90. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image reading apparatus in which the optical adjustment of mirrors is facilitated when supporting carriages, on which the mirrors are mounted, on right and left rail surfaces movably along a platen. SOLUTION: The image reading apparatus is configured to guide reflection light from a document to an image reading means 11 through first and second carriages 3 and 4 moving at a predetermined speed along a document image on a platen. The first carriage 3 supports a mirror at three points such that a one-side end of a mirror is supported by first and second mirror supporting parts 32a and 32b and an other-side end is supported by a third mirror supporting part 32c. Both-side ends of the first carriage are then supported to be slidable on a pair of right and left rail members 5a and 5b through slide members 33a-33d disposed at two positions on forward and backward sides, respectively, at four positions on right and left sides. At least one of the slide members 33c and 33d at two positions on the forward and backward sides disposed at a side of the third mirror supporting part supporting the first mirror at one point is supported by an adjustment screw or the like so as to adjust its position in height. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
An image sensor includes: a lens configured to focus light irradiated toward an object to be read and reflected by the object to be read; a sensor configured to receive light focused by the lens; a sensor board configured to mount thereon the sensor; a board retaining plate, having a casing attachment surface extending in the X direction and a sensor board attachment reference surface that is in contact with the +Y side of the sensor board and is formed in a side surface of the casing attachment surface, and configured to retain the sensor board; and a first casing configured to fix or retain the board retaining plate by fastening of a surface of the casing attachment surface.
Abstract:
A light guide for guiding light from multiple point sources arranged in a first direction (Y1) on a light source board includes a supporting unit including multiple supporting pieces provided to the light source board, arranged at regular intervals in the first direction (Y1), and a light guiding body continuous with the multiple supporting pieces and disposed downstream from the multiple point sources in a light emission direction (L). The light guiding body includes an incident surface, a light emission surface, multiple support ranges in which the supporting pieces are provided, and multiple light transmission ranges adjacent to the support ranges, respectively, in the first direction (Y1), to cause the light to exit the guiding body partly, and the multiple support ranges and the multiple light transmission ranges have substantially the same length in a second direction (X) perpendicular to the first direction (Y1).
Abstract:
An optical module 100 includes an optical path unit 101 including a plurality of reflectors 104 for securing an optical path of reflected light from a manuscript, an image processing unit 102 including a reading device 105 which reads image information on the manuscript based on the reflected light from the manuscript entered via the optical path, and a connecting component 103 which connects the optical path unit 101 and the image processing unit 102 so that their positional relation will become a prescribed state.
Abstract:
An image-reading apparatus that optically reads an original, includes: an illuminating section that illuminates the original with light; an imaging unit that creates pixel data on the basis of reflected light reflected from the original; a moving unit that moves the illuminating section and the imaging unit relative to the original in steps of a fixed distance in a scanning direction that points from one end of the original toward another end of the original; an illumination mode controller that, for each unit step of movement out of one entire scanning movement in the scanning direction performed by the moving unit, controls the illuminating section so that the illuminating section is made to operate in each of a plurality of illumination modes.
Abstract:
A light projection unit includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements arrayed on the substrate in a main scanning direction and including light emitting surfaces, a light guide facing the light emitting surfaces to direct light projected from the light emitting elements onto an illumination target and including a first positioning portion, and a holder including a second positioning portion that engages the first positioning portion of the light guide to position the light guide on the holder. The first positioning portion of the light guide is positioned between centers of light emission of adjacent light emitting elements in the main scanning direction of the substrate when the first positioning portion engages the second positioning portion of the holder.