摘要:
A multibeam scanner including a light source for emitting a plurality of light beams, a deflector for deflecting the plurality of light beams emitted from the light source, and a scanning optical system for guiding the plurality of light beams deflected by the deflector to a scan surface. A first light shielding member for determining one end of the diameter of at least one of the plurality of light beams and a second light-shielding member for determining the other end of the diameter of the at least one of the plurality of light beams are disposed apart from each other in a direction in which the light beams propagate and between the light source and the deflector. The first light-shielding member and the second light-shielding member are used to limit the diameter of the at least one of the plurality of light beams.
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. 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 relation 0.9≦øm/øp≦ømx/øpx=1.0≦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:
An optical scanning apparatus includes a deflector for deflecting a beam emitted from a light source, and scanning optical system having at least one scanning lens for causing the beam deflected by the deflector means to be imaged on a surface to be scanned. At least one scanning lens constituting the scanning optical system has a plurality of positioning reference surfaces for effecting the positioning of the scanning lens in the direction of the optical axis thereof, and is disposed so that a straight line linking the points on two positioning reference surfaces together or a plane formed by the points on three or more positioning reference surfaces may be non-orthogonal to the optical axis. In a main scanning cross-section, the shape of the effective portion of the scanning lens is asymmetrical with respect to the optical axis.
摘要:
A multibeam scanning apparatus having a light source with multiple light emitting sections arranged at intervals in the sub-scanning direction, a light deflector for deflecting light beams emitted from the light emitting sections, and a photosensitive drum to be scanned in the main-scanning direction by the deflected light beams. The deflected light beams strike the photosensitive drum with an angle of inclination relative to the normal of the surface of the photosensitive drum as viewed in the sub-scanning direction in order to scan the drum at predetermined intervals. The intervals between the light beams are selected to be smaller than the predetermined intervals based on the angle of inclination.
摘要:
Provided are an optical scanning apparatus capable of controlling a focus movement amount to a small value on a surface to be scanned, even with change in the oscillation wavelength of light from a light source and/or with environmental change, and an image-forming apparatus using it. The optical scanning apparatus has a light source, a first imaging optical system for converging light emitted from the light source, a deflector for deflecting the light from the first imaging optical system, a second imaging optical system for scanning the surface to be scanned, with the light deflected by the deflector, and at least one diffraction optical element in the first imaging optical system or in the second imaging optical system. In the optical scanning apparatus, the power of the diffraction optical element is properly set to reduce focus movement on the surface to be scanned, with change in the oscillation wavelength of the light from the light source and focus movement on the surface to be scanned, with change in ambient temperature.
摘要:
An object control device includes an object of interest specifying unit configured to specify an object of interest to obtain position information on the object of interest, an obstacle determining unit configured to determine whether there is an obstacle between the object of interest and the object, and a time measuring unit configured to measure a period after determining that there is the obstacle, and a holding unit configured to hold position information of the object of interest when the period reaches a predetermined period, and an object action control unit configured to control a direction of a part of the object, based on the position information obtained by the object of interest specifying unit before the period reaches the predetermined period, and based on the position information on the object of interest held in the holding unit after the period reaches the predetermined period.
摘要:
An optical system includes a positive lens unit, wherein the positive lens unit includes an optical element containing a base material and minute particles that are mixed with the base material and have Abbe number that is lower than that of the base material, and the minute particles are higher in density at a peripheral portion of the optical element than on an optical axis of the optical element.
摘要:
The present invention provides a sensor element including two diode elements connected in series to each other, and a capacitive element having one end connected to a junction point between the two diode elements. Each of the diode elements includes a semiconductor layer having a p-type semiconductor region and an n-type semiconductor region facing each other in an in-plane direction, an anode electrode connected to the p-type semiconductor region, a cathode electrode connected to the n-type semiconductor region, a gate insulting film adjoining the semiconductor layer in a stacking direction, and a gate electrode facing the semiconductor layer with the gate insulating film in between.
摘要:
A multi-beam optical scanning apparatus including a light source including a plurality of radiation points disposed spaced from each other in a main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction, a rotational polygon minor for deflecting a plurality of light beams radiated from the radiation points, and an imaging optical system for imaging the plurality of light beams deflected by a deflecting facet of the rotational polygon mirror. The deflecting facet has a width in which a light beam reaching a farthest location from a center of the deflecting facet is eclipsed by an edge of the deflecting facet if emitted prior to a light beam from a second radiation point when controlled by auto-power-control. Control is performed such that the light beam from the second radiation point is radiated prior to the light beam from the first radiation point when controlled by the auto-power-control.
摘要:
An optical scanning device, which comprises a light source unit, a scanning unit for scanning a scanning surface with a light from the light source unit in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and an optical unit for guiding the scanning light onto the scanning surface. The scanning unit has a deflection surface which sine-wave-drives in the first direction. The optical unit has an optical surface whose arbitrary cross section in the first direction has a shape where a second order derivative of the function representing a shape of the cross section changes so as to diverge a light stronger as toward the periphery from the center. And the optical surface is configured by arranging the shape of each cross section in the first direction in the second direction.