Abstract:
A solid-state image pickup device comprising: a multilayer wiring board 2 having an opening portion 21; a spacer 3 covered with a conductive film 32, and fixed to the multilayer wiring board 2 in a state of making the conductive film 32 face contact with a reference potential electrode exposed into the opening portion 21 of the multilayer wiring board 2; a solid-state image pickup element 4 fixed to the spacer 3 in a state of face contact with the conductive film 32 of the spacer 3, and arranged in the opening portion 21; and an optical element 5 fixed at a position opposing the solid-state image pickup element 4 via the spacer 3, and transmitting light into the opening portion.
Abstract:
The overhead image reading apparatus includes a line sensor 20 which has light receiving elements arranged one-dimensionally to read the image of a document 75 in a one-dimensional direction, a white LED 26 which emits light, a collimator lens 28 which converts light emitted from the white LED to straight-line light, a diffuser plate 29 which converts light converted to straight-line light by the collimator lens to linear irradiation light 90, and line light source units 25 which irradiate linear irradiation light onto a reading region of an image by the line sensor. Moreover, the apparatus includes a rotary head section 5 which holds the line sensor and the line light source units as a single body and rotates the line sensor and the line light source units as a single body when the line sensor reads the image.
Abstract:
An image scanning apparatus includes an image pickup device, a substrate connected to a terminal of the image pickup device, a heat radiation plate which is disposed between the image pickup device and the substrate and one surface of which contacts the image pickup device, and an insulating sheet which is sandwiched between the heat radiation plate and the substrate, respective surfaces of which contact the heat radiation plate and the substrate, and which electrically insulates the heat radiation plate from an electronic component on the substrate.
Abstract:
There is a problem that the contact-type image sensor, for adoption in an image input/output apparatus to input/output the image of a large-sized document, such as A0 or A1 size, is weak in lengthwise rigidity and readily deflected at its lengthwise center by its own weight. Accordingly, by attaching a deformation rectifier to the image sensor in a lengthwise direction thereof, the contact type image sensor is reinforced in lengthwise rigidity. The deformation rectifier reinforces the rigidity of the contact type image sensor, thereby preventing the contact type image sensor from deflecting vertically relative to its lengthwise direction and keeping constant the focal length between the surface of the document to be read and the sensor IC.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an image scanning module including a first unit, a second unit, and a third unit. The first unit having a light source is used for retrieving a first image. The second unit is used for generating a second image by focusing the first image. The third unit is used for generating an electric signal responsive to the second image. The first unit, the second unit, and the third unit are modules discrete from each other.
Abstract:
A line scan camera comprises a printed circuit board upon which a charge-coupled device (CCD) is mounted. A lens component is fixed within a lens mount, and the base of the lens mount is adjustably mounted upon an optical bench. Calibration devices adjustably interconnect the lens mount to the printed circuit board and to the optical bench so as to calibrate the positional location of the lens component relative to the charge-coupled device (CCD) and to an object plane past which objects to be scanned and photographed are conveyed. In this manner, the focus distance defined between the lens component and the charge-coupled device (CCD) as well as the focal distance defined between the lens component and the object plane are fixed and do not need any further calibration. The object plane is defined upon the front surface of a sealed housing enclosure and all of the components are disposed within the housing enclosure so as to prevent dust and contaminants from collecting upon the optical components. LED arrays are disposed within the front of the housing so as to illuminate and properly expose the objects conveyed past the object plane. A positive pressure differential is also created within the sealed housing enclosure so as to prevent the ingress of dust and contaminants into the housing enclosure.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a joining construction for mounting the CCD cells of a color line camera on a color splitting prism (30) attached to a prism housing (2). Each CCD cell (6, 7, 8) is attached, by a first glue joint (13), to its fastening element (9), the length (L2) whereof is essentially larger than the length (L1) of the CCD cell, and which fastening element (9) extends from the housing margin (12a) located on one side of said exit surface (20a, 20b, 20c) of the color splitting prism to the other housing margin (12b) located on the opposite side thereof. Each fastening element (9) is attached to said margins by third glue joints (11).
Abstract:
The invention is a system for scanning a document. A light source illuminates the document; an imager receives light from the document and directs it toward a detector array which produces a corresponding array of electrical signals. The imager has several optical properties that are useful either individually or in combination. The imager is telecentric and thereby ensures that image size and magnification are insensitive to object displacement along the optical axis and image brightness is uniform independent of object off-axis distance. An aspheric element within the imager balances focus variation within the depth of field with spherical aberration and thereby provides nearly uniform image resolution. A diffraction pattern, carried by the imager, corrects for spectral dispersion which occurs when light passes from air into a refractive material. An imager with a reflecting surface provides a system that is subject to little or no chromatic aberration. A solid imager with multiple internal reflecting surfaces in optical series, configured to include the previously mentioned optical properties, also provides for highly stable alignment of reflecting surfaces.
Abstract:
A mounting method and a mounting structure for the solid-state image pickup element in the image reading-out apparatus aiming at assembling the element with high precision and eliminating positional deviation occurring thereafter. The mounting structure comprises a solid-state image pickup element fixing member having a focusing lens fixed thereon, a basic board having the element mounted thereon, and a solid-state image pickup element supporting member from which the basic board can be detached. Between the fixing member and the supporting member are provided connecting portions, and the supporting member is bonded to the fixing member by filling the gap between the connecting portions with the adhesive agent. The connecting portions are constructed with the projection part provided on the fixing member and the hole part provided on the supporting member or vice versa.
Abstract:
An imager for imaging a document moving in a document track in a table top document processing machine. The imager includes a housing which is made of several portions which are designed to be assembled quickly with a minimum of fasteners. A first line of green LEDs and a second line of red LEDs are located in the housing to illuminate a scanning line from which image data about the document is obtained by an optical system including a CCDs. The imager is also designed so that the same imager can be used on either side of the document track to image the front or back of the document. When two such imagers are used, a white reference member (for calibrating the imager to ensure repeatable and uniform data) located in one of the imagers is used by the other imager.