Invention Application
- Patent Title: OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
- Patent Title (中): 光学扫描装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US11845409Application Date: 2007-08-27
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Publication No.: US20080055672A1Publication Date: 2008-03-06
- Inventor: Naoto WATANABE , Shunichi Sato , Daisuke Ichii
- Applicant: Naoto WATANABE , Shunichi Sato , Daisuke Ichii
- Priority: JP2006-239563 20060904
- Main IPC: H04N1/04
- IPC: H04N1/04

Abstract:
A two-dimensional array include N light-emitting arrays each formed of M light-emitting units arranged equally spaced along a direction T tilting from a main scanning direction at an angle α toward a sub-scanning direction. The light-emitting arrays are equally spaced in the sub-scanning direction. A space ds2 between light-emitting arrays with respect to the sub-scanning direction satisfies ds2=ds1×M where ds1 is a positional difference in the sub-scanning direction between light-emitting units which are adjacent each other in the main scanning direction and orthographically-projected on a virtual line extending in the sub-scanning direction. The angle α satisfies α=sin−1((ds2/d1)/M) where d1 is a space between light-emitting units in the light-emitting array with respect to the direction T. The space ds2 is equal to the space d1.
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