Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical unit which prevents reading accuracy of an image from being deteriorated even when a support member for supporting a lens unit and an imaging element is thermally expanded, and also to provide an image reading apparatus and an image forming apparatus. SOLUTION: In the optical unit 33 provided with: an imaging element 39 for converting into an electric signal, light being emitted from a light source to an original face and thereafter reflected in the original face; a lens unit 38 for imaging the reflected light onto the imaging element 39; and a support bracket 41 (support member) for supporting the imaging element 39 and the lens unit 38, an increasing/decreasing direction of a focal distance of the lens unit 38 due to heat is made to match an increasing/decreasing direction of a distance between the imaging element 39 and the lens unit 38 due to the heat. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document reading unit in which the workability of adjustment for line sensors is improved. SOLUTION: A plurality of sensor assemblies 31 provided between a unit base 11 and a transparent document supporting plate 25 are disposed alternately in a first column for first reading a document and a second column for reading the document subsequently to the first column. Each of the sensor assemblies 31 comprises a sensor holder 32, a line sensor 51 and a focus setting means. The sensor holder 32 is provided rotatably with a single pivot (rotation center) 45 as a supporting point along with a wall 12a of the unit base 11 in parallel with the document supporting plate 25, and the sensor holder 32 rotated at a predetermined position is fixed on the wall 12a. The line sensor 51 is held so as not to move in main scan and sub scan directions with respect to the sensor holder 32, and provided movably close to or away from the wall 12a and the document supporting plate 25. For the focus setting means comprised of a coil spring 65 and a spacer 66, the line sensor 51 is moved in said approaching/separating direction and disposed at a position where a focus is determined. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract in simplified Chinese:一种扫描仪,其扫描模块以一承载设备承载,承载设备系设置一调整机构,以调整扫描模块之位置。调整机构包括滚轮(roller),及紧配于滚轮之一旋转部。进行扫描时,滚轮转动,而滚轮与旋转部之间产生之摩擦力可带动旋转部旋转,进而向上抵住扫描模块之一下表面,使扫描模块在扫描时可接触上方之扫描平台。
Abstract:
An optical scanning device includes a light source, an optical system, and a housing. The light source projects a light beam. The housing includes a holder and encloses the optical system. The optical system includes a liquid crystal element held by the housing via the holder, to modulate a phase of the light beam projected from the light source against a scanned surface. The liquid crystal element includes a plurality of substantially transparent substrates, a liquid crystal layer, and a sealing member. One of the plurality of the transparent substrates has a size larger than any other transparent substrates and is positioned in the holder. The liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between the plurality of substantially transparent substrates. The sealing member seals the liquid crystal layer between the plurality of substantially transparent substrates.
Abstract:
An optical unit may include an image pick-up device, a lens unit and a holding member. The image pick-up device may convert a reflected light reflected from an original document to an electric signal, after the light is irradiated on the original document from a light source. The lens unit may image the reflected light on the image pick-up device. The holding member may hold the image pick-up device and lenses. The direction of a fluctuation of a focal length of the lens unit caused by heat and a direction of the fluctuation of a distance between the image pick-up device and the lens unit caused by heat may agree with each other.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for adjusting a distance between an original platen glass and a closely contact image sensor (CIS) without disassembling an image reading apparatus. SOLUTION: A CIS unit 10 is provided with: a CIS 12; and an elastic body 13 for energizing the CIS 12 toward a direction approaching the platen glass 4. A CIS roller holder 20 is provided with a thin plate-like spacer 22 molded in a rectangular shape; and a CIS holder 21 for holding the spacer 22 movably in a vertical direction and a sub-scanning direction for the platen glass 4 and to be fixed on the CIS unit 10. Meanwhile, a concave and a convex which can be mated are formed on a surface where the CIS holder 21 opposes the spacer 22. When the CIS unit 10 moves in the sub-scanning direction and the CIS roller holder 20 abuts on a rib 7a (rib 7b), the convex portion of the CIS holder 21 abuts on the concave portion (convex portion) of the spacer 22, and thus, the distance the platen glass 4 and the CIS 12 becomes the shortest. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem in which a locally thick part becomes a weak point to easily cause mechanical resonance vibration from an image reader and then picture quality deteriorates as the locally thick part is formed as a substrate for fitting and a mask are adjacent to each other when the image reader is made small-sized, while a resin-made lens block is equipped with a mask for shading correction integrally and the mask has an aperture increasing in size toward an end in a main scanning direction to capture more marginal light flux than center luminous flux. SOLUTION: At a center part of a mask part 202, upper and lower light shield parts 202a cut off upper and lower parts of light flux 103 of the center part incident on a lens block 201 and parts of ends of the mask part 202 are formed of an arcuate connection part 202b for pieces 104 and 105 of light flux incident from the end, so that the light flux is all incident and a large thickness is obtained with a fitting part 201a. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact reading module having simple configuration and realizing the facilitation of the adjustment of optical path length. SOLUTION: The reading module is provided with a light source 5, a pair of mirrors consisting of a mirror 11 which reflected light from an original 20 is made to enter and a mirror 12 whose mirror surface is opposed to that of the mirror 11 nearly parallel therewith at a specified interval therefrom, and reflecting the incident light several times and then emitting it from the mirror 11, a mirror 13 reflecting the light entering from a pair of mirrors nearly in parallel with the original 20 in a direction where the light goes away from a pair of mirrors, a mirror 14 reflecting the light entering from the mirror 13 in a direction where the light is nearly opposed to the light going toward the mirror 13 from a pair of mirrors, and making the light enter a lens 2, a mirror 15 reflecting the light emitted from the lens 2 in a direction where the light is nearly opposed to the light going toward the mirror 14 from the mirror 13, and a linear sensor 1 arranged at given intervals from the mirror 15. The position of a pair of mirrors can be changed along an optical path going toward the mirror 11 from the original 20 while holding positional relationship between the mirrors 11 and 12. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO