READING MODULE AND IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THEREWITH

    公开(公告)号:US20180152582A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-31

    申请号:US15826070

    申请日:2017-11-29

    CPC classification number: H04N1/02885 H04N1/02865 H04N1/1056 H04N1/1135

    Abstract: A reading module has a light source, an optical system imaging, as image light, reflected light of light radiated from the light source to a document, a sensor where a plurality of imaging regions for converting the image light imaged by the optical system into an electrical signal are arranged next to each other in the main scanning direction, and a housing the light source, the optical system, and the sensor. The optical system has a mirror array where a plurality of reflection mirrors whose reflection surfaces are aspherical concave surfaces are coupled together in an array in the main scanning direction, and an aperture stop portion adjusting the amount of the image light reflected from the reflection mirror. The amount of the image light striking the reflection mirror is increasingly small from opposite end parts of the reflection mirror toward its central part in the main scanning direction.

    READING MODULE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20190045074A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-07

    申请号:US16055626

    申请日:2018-08-06

    CPC classification number: H04N1/1937 H04N1/00795 H04N1/1934 H04N2201/02439

    Abstract: A reading module of the present disclosure is provided with a light source, an optical system, and a sensor. The optical system images, as reading light, reflected light of light radiated from the light source to an illumination object. The sensor converts the reading light imaged by the optical system into an electric signal. The optical system is provided with a mirror array in which a plurality of reflection mirrors are disposed in an array in a prescribed direction and a plurality of aperture stop portions that adjust an amount of the reading light. Each of the reflection mirrors is disposed at a prescribed distance from an adjacent one of the reflection mirrors in a prescribed direction.

    READING MODULE, AND IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THEREWITH

    公开(公告)号:US20190045073A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-07

    申请号:US16055487

    申请日:2018-08-06

    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a reading module includes a light source, an optical system, and a sensor. The optical system images, as image light, reflection light of light with which the light source has irradiated a document. The sensor converts the thus imaged image light into an electric signal. The optical system includes a mirror array in which a plurality of reflection mirrors are connected together, and a plurality of aperture stop portions. The reflection mirrors each reflect light at an angle that is different, as seen in a main scanning direction, from an angle at which an adjacent one of the reflection mirrors reflects light. The plurality of aperture stop portions are disposed on one side of the mirror array with respect to an orthogonal direction which is orthogonal to the main scanning direction.

    IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THEREWITH

    公开(公告)号:US20180149861A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-31

    申请号:US15826123

    申请日:2017-11-29

    Abstract: An image reading device has a reading module including a light source, an optical system having a mirror array where reflection mirrors are coupled together in the main scanning direction and an aperture stop portion, a sensor where imaging regions for converting the image light imaged by the optical system into an electrical signal are arranged, and a housing, and has a reference drawing pattern determining connection positions between the imaging regions. The reference drawing pattern is composed of a plurality of pixel cut lines arranged to correspond to boundary lines between the reflection mirrors. The optical system is fixed on the housing at one point in the main scanning direction, and the pixel cut lines are arranged such that their distances from the boundary lines in the main scanning direction increase the farther away from the fixed position of the optical system in the main scanning direction.

    READING MODULE, IMAGE READING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20190230241A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-25

    申请号:US16333123

    申请日:2017-09-01

    Abstract: A reading module has a light source, an optical system having a mirror array and an aperture stop portion, a sensor in which a plurality of image regions where the image light is converted into an electrical signal are arranged; a housing; and a light-shielding wall shielding stray light striking the image regions. In the mirror array, a plurality of reflective mirrors whose reflection surfaces are aspherical concave surfaces are coupled together in an array in the main scanning direction. The optical system is fixed to on the case housing at one point in the main scanning direction, and the light shielding walls are arranged at a positions displaced deviated by a predetermined amount from boundaries between the image regions in the direction opposite to the fixed side of the optical system.

    READING MODULE AND IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THEREWITH

    公开(公告)号:US20180152581A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-31

    申请号:US15825997

    申请日:2017-11-29

    Abstract: A reading module has a light source, an optical system, and a sensor. The optical system images, as image light, reflected light of light radiated from the light source to a document. In the sensor, the image light imaged by the optical system is converted into an electrical signal. The optical system has a mirror array and an aperture stop portion. In the mirror array, reflection mirrors are coupled together in an array in the main scanning direction. The aperture stop portion has a first aperture adjusting the amount of the image light reflected from a reflection mirror and a second aperture shielding stray light entering the first aperture from an adjacent reflection mirror. Between the first and second apertures, a reflection reduction mechanism is provided that reduces reflection, toward the first aperture, of light other than the image light traveling from the second to first aperture.

    READING MODULE, AND IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20180035001A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-01

    申请号:US15637982

    申请日:2017-06-29

    Inventor: Takaaki MURASE

    CPC classification number: H04N1/1937 H04N1/02835 H04N1/1903 H04N1/1936

    Abstract: A reading module includes a light source, an optical system for forming an image of reflection light from a document illuminated by the light source, and a sensor including a plurality of sensor chips to convert the image light formed by the optical system into an electric signal. The optical system includes a mirror array including a plurality of reflecting mirrors connected in the main scanning direction, first aperture stops each of which adjusts light amount of the image light reflected from each of the reflecting mirrors, second aperture stops each extending from the opening edge of the first aperture stop toward the mirror array, first light shielding walls each of which extends from a boundary between the sensor chips toward the first aperture stops, and second light shielding walls extending from both sides in the main scanning direction of the first aperture stop toward the sensor chips.

    OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20250164904A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-22

    申请号:US18948177

    申请日:2024-11-14

    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a light source, a deflector, and a first lens and a second lens. A light beam from the light source strikes a deflection surface on the deflector obliquely in the sub-scanning direction. For the first and second lenses, the shapes of their entrance and exit surfaces with respect to the light beam are defined by a main scanning direction shape formula and a sub-scanning direction shape formula that include different coefficients for one and the other sides with respect to the middle in the main scanning direction. The sub-scanning direction shape formula includes, as a variable, a sub-scanning direction curvature radius defined by a sub-scanning direction curvature radius definition formula. The sub-scanning direction curvature radius definition formula is given by a polynomial with a coordinate in the main scanning direction as a variable, and includes a first order term of the variable.

    OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20250044581A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-06

    申请号:US18785377

    申请日:2024-07-26

    Inventor: Takaaki MURASE

    Abstract: The optical scanning device includes a light source unit. The light source unit has a plurality of light-emitting modules for each emitting a laser beam. The light-emitting modules are placed in array in an up/down direction between neighboring ones of protruding portions. An outermost diameter of a bracket in a region interposed between the protruding portions of the light-emitting modules placed on an upper side is larger than an outermost diameter of the bracket in a region interposed between the protruding portions of the light-emitting modules placed on a lower side. A width between the protruding portions in a region where the light-emitting modules placed on the upper side are interposed therebetween is larger than a width between the protruding portions in a region where the light-emitting modules placed on the lower side are interposed therebetween.

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