Abstract:
An optical imaging assembly comprises a mounting surface and at least one semiconductor die having a face and an edge portion. The edge portion of the at least one semiconductor die is mounted to the mounting surface. A light sensitive optical detector is located on the face of the at least one semiconductor die. An optical system is mounted to the mounting surface adjacent the at least one semiconductor die.
Abstract:
A scanner, through which a document moves while being scanned by a moving beam of light, includes a wheel that rotates responsive to document movement. The wheel includes a multi-sectioned optical encoder upon which the scanning beam of light impinges when in a position at which it does not impinge upon the document. The scanner also includes an optical detector which receives light that is not absorbed by the optical encoder sections. Thus, the optical detector generates an electrical signal that indicates document movement speed. A preferred embodiment the scanner includes a pair of cup-shaped wheels one of which carries the optical encoder that encircles an inner surface of the wheel adjacent to a lip thereof. An axle, also included in the preferred embodiment, spans between, is coupled to, and supports the wheels for rotation in unison about a longitudinal axis parallel to the axle.
Abstract:
Color imaging methods and systems allow each color image to be registered in a composite manner. An image-on-image registration controller of an image forming device adjusts the control signals which control the output of image data to reduce or eliminate image registration offsets. In particular, two separate feedback loops are combined to monitor and adjust image registration without going off-line for a set-up procedure. These two feedback loops include a dynamic skew control feedback loop, which monitors and adjusts the edge position of the photoreceptor belt to infer lateral registration, and a direct image registration feedback loop, which monitors and adjusts relative image registration directly. The control signals are adjusted based on a determined image registration offset. The image processing device outputs an image based on the control signals adjusted based on a determined image registration offset. As the image's registration changes, the image-on-image registration controller determines and applies the necessary adjustments to the controls signals to keep the differently-colored images registered throughout the print run. The systems and methods permit many off-line set-up procedures the eliminated and increase the image quality by constantly adjusting for registration offsets.
Abstract:
An exposure apparatus emits a number of laser beams to the predetermined positions on a single photosensitive drum. Galvano-mirrors are employed for controlling the distances between the laser beams in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction. The angles of the mirrors of the galvano-mirrors are adjusted in such a manner as to eliminate the adverse effects caused by a drift, such as variations in the viscosity of the dampening agent of a mirror driving mechanism and variations in the magnetic force generated by a magnetic circuit. Without such adverse effects, the laser beams can be guided accurately to the predetermined positions on the photosensitive drum. The angles of the mirrors are monitored by checking whether the laser beams are incident on the predetermined positions on the detection areas of a beam position sensor.
Abstract:
There is proposed a method and apparatus for multibeam scanning an inner face of a cylindrical drum, in which scanning lines are straightened under a simple control, and an interval between the scanning lines can be easily changed, thereby simplifying a constitution. In an embodiment, while keeping an interval between two light beams projected to an optical scanning system, the light beams are one-dimensionally deflected in mutually orthogonal directions in synchronism with a rotation of the spinner, respectively. In a second embodiment, one light beam is projected along a central axis common with the spinner and the cylindrical drum to the spinner. The other light beams are inclined in a plane including the central axis by a constant angle nully separately predetermined for each of the other light beams, and further inclined in a direction orthogonal to the plane including a rotation axis by an angle nullx which is determined in synchronism with a rotation angle null of the spinner.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus which forms an image on a recording mateial, which has: a writing section to write according to the image data; an oscillator to generate a synchronized synchronizing clock signal; a spreading clock generator to spread the band of a synchronized reference clock and generate spreading clock signals; and a plurality of control circuits to control the image forming apparatus and each section of the image forming apparatus including a writing control circuit to control the writing section. More than one control circuits in the control circuits other than the writing control circuit are driven by the spreading clock signals, and the writing control cirucit is driven by the synchronizing clock signal.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus containing a divisional scanning type optical scanner. In the apparatus, if displacement of one line in a subscanning direction occurs in a joint of image formation areas, light sources are controlled so as to modulate and emit light beams based on image data of the scanning line shifted one line at the same point of time. If displacement of 0.5 pixels in a main scanning direction occurs in a joint of image formation areas, the emission start timing of one light beam is shifted by the scanning time as long as 0.5 pixels with respect to the emission start timing of the other light beam, thereby correcting the displacement amount in the main scanning direction.
Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus employing a multi-beam method, the total emission period of time is stored for each laser beam. In accordance with the total emission periods of the laser beams, the laser beam used for SOS is switched, so that the total emission periods are kept almost equal to each other. When the laser beam used for the SOS is switched, the adjustment processing for correcting misalignment of the laser beams in the main scanning direction is changed in accordance with the current laser beam used for the SOS, and the emitting order of the laser beams for the APC is also accordingly changed.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus and method wherein a writing device writes information of an image on a photoconductive body traveling in the sub-scanning direction to form an electrostatic latent image of the image thereupon by driving a light source to emit luminous flux, in response to an image signal corresponding to the image information, using a write clock and scanning the luminous flux from the light source with a scanning device in the main scanning direction on the photoconductive drum. The electrostatic latent image on the photoconductive body is developed by a developing device to a toner image, a transfer sheet having a size in the main scanning direction is selected by a selecting device, and the toner image on the photoconductive body is transferred by a transfer device to the selected transfer paper. The write clock is reset on the basis of information of the size of the selected transfer paper in the main scanning direction such that a magnification error of the writing device in the main scanning direction of the image is corrected.
Abstract:
A rotational shaft of a photosensitive drum is connected to a rotational shaft of a stepping motor by a coupling, so that the stepping motor directly drives the photosensitive drum. Here, &thgr; (°) indicating a step angle of the stepping motor, p (mm) indicating a distance between scanning lines on the photosensitive drum, &pgr; indicating the circular constant, and d (mm) indicating a diameter of the photosensitive drum are set so as to satisfy an equation n·&thgr;=(360·p)/(&pgr;·d) to make an optical unit scan the photosensitive drum by one scanning line every time the photosensitive drum is made to rotate n steps, n being a positive integer.