发明授权
- 专利标题: Optical writing unit and image forming apparatus including same
- 专利标题(中): 光写入单元和包括其的图像形成设备
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申请号: US13729865申请日: 2012-12-28
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公开(公告)号: US08754919B2公开(公告)日: 2014-06-17
- 发明人: Yoshinobu Sakaue , Noboru Kusunose , Tomoya Fujii
- 申请人: Yoshinobu Sakaue , Noboru Kusunose , Tomoya Fujii
- 申请人地址: JP Tokyo
- 专利权人: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- 当前专利权人: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- 当前专利权人地址: JP Tokyo
- 代理机构: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- 优先权: JP2012-014427 20120126
- 主分类号: B41J15/14
- IPC分类号: B41J15/14 ; B41J27/00
摘要:
An optical writing unit includes in a housing a light source projecting a light beam, a deflector to deflect the light beam projected from the light source, a focusing lens, and a lens adjusting device. The focusing lens is long in a main scanning direction and focuses the light beam onto a scan target. The lens adjusting device rotates the focusing lens about a substantially center portion thereof as a rotation fulcrum on a plane perpendicular to an optical path of the light beam so as to adjust the position of the light beam illuminating the scan target. The focusing lens has an asymmetric cross-section relative to a center line of the focusing lens in a direction of the optical path in a sub-scanning plane perpendicular to the main scanning direction, and the center of gravity of the focusing lens is offset from the center line toward the rotation fulcrum.