摘要:
A light scanning unit includes a light source (10) which emits light beam with a predetermined wavelength, a beam deflector (30) which deflects and scans the light beam emitted by the light source (10) toward a photosensitive body (50), and an f-θ lens (40) which has at least one plastic lens and forms an image for the light deflected by the beam deflector (30) on the photosensitive body (50), the light scanning unit satisfying a following formula0 max - L min ≤ [20×(cos θ) 5 + 10] × λ/(5×10-4) where L max and L min respectively represent a maximum value and a minimum value of a total light passing distance from a light axis of at least one plastic lens according to a deflection angle, θ is an angle formed between a polarization direction of the light beam emitted by the light source (10) and a sub-scanning direction, and λ is a wavelength of the light beam emitted by the light source (10).
摘要:
A light scanning unit (140) includes: a light source (11) generating and irradiating at least one beam corresponding to an image signal; a beam deflector (20) deflecting and scanning the beam irradiated by the light source (11); and an f-θ lens (30) forming an image from the beam deflected by the beam deflector (20) onto a surface to be scanned, the f-θ lens (30) being provided as one lens and satisfies the following equation (2): - 0.2 SAG 1 + SAG 2 d 2 0.2 where SAG 1 is Z value of an incident surface of the f-θ lens (30), which faces the beam deflector (20), SAG 2 is Z value of the exit surface of the f-θ lens (30), which faces the surface to be scanned, based on an XYZ coordinate system in which a main scanning plane is a Y-Z plane and a subscanning plane is an X-Z plane, and d 2 is a center thickness of the f-θ lens (30).
摘要:
An f-θ lens (230) is joined to a mount through a light curable bond (141), forms an incident deflected beam onto a photosensitive body (245), and includes a lens part (110) which has an incident side (110a) on which the deflected beam is incident, and an exiting side (110b) which is disposed near the photosensitive body (245) and on which the entered deflected beam is exited, an joining part (120) which has a joining side (120a) which is extended from the incident face and is joined to the mount, and an emitting side (120b) which is extended from the exiting face and disposed to face the joining side (120a), and which a light beam for curing the light curable bond (141) is scanned, and an emitting part (130) which is formed on the emitting side (120b) in a nonplanar shape and provided to decrease loss of light quantity of the light beam scanned on the emitting face, so that the f-θ lens (230) provides an improved joining force in a joining process by a light cure joining type.
摘要:
A beam-scanning lens (100) used in a scanning image forming optical system includes a single lens (100) molded from plastic having a refractive index distribution curve (Δn(x)) and an effective area (107), such that a gap between a center axis (CL) of the refractive index distribution curve (Δn(x)) and a width centerline (105) of the effective area (107) is increased from a center of the single lens (100) to both ends of a lengthwise direction of the single lens (100).
摘要:
A compact optical scanning apparatus capable of desirably correcting an fθ characteristic, a field curvature, and other aberrations, and an image forming apparatus using the same, which includes an incident optical system (LA) for guiding a beam from a light source (1) to a deflector (4) and an imaging optical system (LB) for guiding the beam to a scanning surface (7), wherein a scanning field angle region where θ1
摘要:
An apparatus and a method for correcting a non-linear, in particular a sinusoidal movement of a light beam scanned by a resonant scanner provide for deflection of the light beam (98a, 98b) such that a linear characteristic of the moved light beam is obtained over at least a portion of the scanning amplitude.
摘要:
Disclosed is a scanning optical device and an image forming apparatus using the same, wherein the scanning optical device includes a scanning optical element provided by a single lens (61). In relation to a predetermined one of two optical surfaces of the single lens having a larger refractive power in a minor scan direction on an optical axis, the shape of optical surface of the single lens is determined so as to satisfy a relation0.9≤øm/øp≤ømx/øpx≤1.1øm/øp where øp is a refractive power of the single lens in a minor scan direction on the optical axis, øm is a refractive power of the single lens in the minor scan direction at a most abaxial point, øpx is a refractive power at the predetermined optical surface of the single lens in the minor scan direction on the optical axis, and ømx is a refractive power at the predetermined optical surface of the single lens in the minor scan direction at a most abaxial point.
摘要:
It is an object of this invention to provide a light scanning device capable of suppressing scanning line bending to a low level, which is caused by the arrangement error of a single-element lens (6) serving as an imaging optical element, and an image forming apparatus using the device. In order to achieve the object, according to this invention, an imaging optical system is formed from a single-element lens (6), and the sectional shapes of the incident (6a) and exit (6b) surfaces in the main scanning direction are non-arcuated, and the power in the sub scanning direction substantially concentrates on the exit surface (6b). The non-arcuated shape (curvature) of the exit surface in the main scanning direction is so determined as to make the magnification in the sub scanning direction uniform.