Abstract:
An apparatus for detecting position or temperature distribution of an object has a lens which is rotated around a pyroelectric type infrared sensor to collect incident infrared ray on the sensor while scanning the incident infrared ray in a rotational direction. The optical scanning is operated also in the longitudinal direction by providing with a plurarity of lenses having different view in the longitudinal direction, the lenses being rotated sequentialy around the sensor. Further, detection of temperature of an object is conducted without using optical chopper by alternately observing the object and a standard temperature material which is arranged in a part of view, or by providing a stationary slit unit on a curved surface formed around a center axis which is the same as the rotation axis of the lens and a movable slit unit heaving the same pitch and arranged adjacent to the stationary slit unit and rotating together with the lens to intermitting the incident infrared ray.
Abstract:
An inner circumference surface of a lens barrel is formed so as to be a rough surface having a larger surface roughness than a wavelength of incident light and a plurality of fine concave/convex portions are regularly arranged within a cycle equal to or larger than the incident light.
Abstract:
The optical scanner of this invention includes a light source, an optical deflector for scanning a light flux from the light source, a first image formation optical system disposed between the light source and the optical deflector, and a second image formation optical system disposed between the optical deflector and a surface to be scanned. The second image formation optical system includes a curved mirror for reflecting a light flux from the optical deflector and a correction lens for converging the light flux from the curved mirror on the surface to be scanned. A refractive power in the sub-scanning direction at the center of the correction lens in the scanning direction is different from that at the periphery thereof.
Abstract:
An optical scanner comprising a light source unit (1), an optical deflector (5) to scan a light beam from the light source unit, a first optical system (2,3, and 4) disposed between the light source unit and the optical deflector, and a second optical system (7 and 8) disposed between the optical deflector and the surface to be scanned, wherein the second optical system comprises a first curved mirror (7) to reflect the light beam from the optical deflector and a second curved mirror (8) to focus the light beam from the first curved mirror on the surface to be scanned; the first curved mirror having a toric surface which is either convex in the main scanning direction, and concave in the sub scanning direction, or concave in the main scanning direction and convex in the sub scanning direction, the second curved mirror having either a toric surface or a cylindrical surface.
Abstract:
An anamorphic single lens with its radii in respective directions determined by the transfer efficiency of beams and imaging positions in respective directions, as required by the overall optical scanner, the anamorphic single lens satisfying the following formulae: where fm is the focal length of the lens in the direction of beams diverged at a larger angle, TH is the thickness, S is the distance from a light source side principal point position (6) to the light source (5) in the direction of the beams diverged at the larger angle, and S' is the distance from a light source side principal point position (8) to the light source in the direction of beams diverged at a smaller angle.
Abstract:
A post objective type optical scanner having a light source for emitting a light beam having a first width in the scanning direction and a second width in the sub-scanning direction, a single lens (22) having an incident surface and an emergent surface and including a scanning optical system having a first light source side principal point, and a sub-scanning optical system having a second light source side principal point, for converting a light beam emitted from the light source (21) having a scanningwise width and a subscanningwise width, the scanning optical system converting the first width of the light beam into the scanningwise width of the scanning beam while the sub-scanning optical system converting the second width of the light beam into the subscanningwise width of said scanning beam. The distance of the first light source side principal point from the light source is greater than the distance of the second light source side principal point from the light source. The incident surface of the single lens is toric, having an aberration correction surface for the sub-scanning optical system, while the emergent surface is toric or cylindrical, having an aberration correction surface for the sub-scanning optical system.
Abstract:
The optical scanner of this invention includes a light source, an optical deflector for scanning a light flux from the light source, a first image formation optical system disposed between the light source and the optical deflector, and a second image formation optical system disposed between the optical deflector and a surface to be scanned. The second image formation optical system includes a curved mirror for reflecting a light flux from the optical deflector and a correction lens for converging the light flux from the curved mirror on the surface to be scanned. A refractive power in the sub-scanning direction at the center of the correction lens in the scanning direction is different from that at the periphery thereof.