Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical scanning apparatus
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Application No.: US14809678Application Date: 2015-07-27
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Publication No.: US09618741B2Publication Date: 2017-04-11
- Inventor: Atsuyoshi Shimamoto , Yoichi Haga , Tadao Matsunaga
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION , TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Miyagi
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION,TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION,TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Miyagi
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-014256 20130129
- Main IPC: G02B26/10
- IPC: G02B26/10

Abstract:
An optical scanning apparatus for efficiently performing scanning with light by efficiently increasing amplitude of an emission end of an optical fiber is provided. The optical scanning apparatus includes an optical fiber that guides illumination light emitted from a light source so that the illumination light is emitted from the emission end, a magnetic body fixed to the optical fiber, and a magnetic field generating unit changing a magnetic field to act on the magnetic body to displace a position of the emission end in a radial direction by magnetic force, and the magnetic field generating unit includes a plurality of coils for individually generating magnetic fields acting on the magnetic body at positions separate from each other in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber, and the magnetic fields acting on the magnetic body can be individually adjusted at the positions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150331233A1 OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2015-11-19
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