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5659414 Means for controlling the power output of laser diodes in a ROS system  
The present invention provides a means and method for efficiently and automatically monitoring and adjusting the power output of either a single or a dual beam laser diode array used to provide the...
5657146 Optical scanning apparatus  
An optical scanning apparatus for scanning a light beam as a spot image on an image-forming plane apart from a light source, or reversely, for optically reading the graphic image of an object, in...
5654817 Scanning device  
A scanning device comprising a scanning member provided for pathwise scanning a medium along a scanning path by means of a scanning beam, said scanning member and said medium being mutually movable...
5652670 Scanning image forming lens and optical scanner  
In a scanning image forming lens used in an optical scanner, a light beam from a laser light source is coupled and deflected at an equal angular velocity by an optical deflector and is converged as...
5650871 Single element optics for passive facet tracking  
A double bounce passive facet tracking system uses a single passive optical component of a toroidal mirror to induce a beam of light to track a facet of a dual mirror rotating polygon. A beam...
5650870 Rotary polygon mirror  
A rotary polygon mirror has reflecting mirror faces formed at side faces of a prism of a predetermined height, and includes an axially symmetrical projection formed along at least parts of outer...
5650869 Point relay scanner utilizing ellipsoidal mirrors  
A scanning system uses a polygonal mirror assembly with each facet of the polygon having an ellipsoidal mirror located thereon. One focal point of each ellipsoidal mirror is located at a common...
5648864 Optical scanner  
An image forming optical system for an equal speed scan converges a deflected light beam as a light spot onto a scanned face to perform an optical scanning operation at an equal speed. The image...
5648852 Laser beam type distance measuring device  
A laser beam type distance measuring device comprises a laser beam emitter; a returning laser beam detector; a polygon mirror rotated about a first axis for reflecting a going laser beam from the...
5646767 Scanning optical system  
A scanning optical system with a light beam deflected by an optical deflector is scanned on a scanning surface in a main scanning direction through the scanning optical system. The scanning optical...
5646766 Laser beam scanning apparatus and method  
A laser beam scanning apparatus employs a movable reflector (32) having a large number of flat reflective sides (44) a deflector (16) which shifts the laser beam (10) at high speed across a...
5644419 Mirror fixing device for a motor employing a beam reflector  
A mirror fixing device for a motor employing a beam reflector which can uniformly fix the beam reflector to a motor housing as well as prevent gas leakage from the housing. The device includes a...
5642218 Method for creating a multi-faceted polygon for a laser writer  
A method for manufacturing a multi-faceted polygon for a laser writer, comprises the steps of creating a plurality of scanning surfaces on the polygon; and creating a step which is positioned on a...
5640265 Optical scanning apparatus  
This invention discloses an optical scanning apparatus which gives an F-θ function by means of an axis-symmetric aspherical lens serving as a scanning lens and facilitates the manufacture,...
5633744 Supporting apparatus for optical scanning apparatus  
A supporting apparatus for an optical scanning apparatus includes an optical source which emits an optical beam. A deflector deflects the optical beam from the optical source. A focusing lens...
5631763 Fθ lens system in a laser scanning unit  
An fθ lens system employing two fθ lenses in a laser scanning unit. According to the fθ lens system, a cheap plastic can be used for an fθ lens by lowering the refractive index of one of two...
5631761 Drive motor for rotating multi-faceted mirror  
A drive motor for rotating a multi-faceted mirror to change the path of a laser beam in a laser printer or a laser scanner. The drive motor for rotating the multi-faceted mirror has a stator, a...
5627670 Scanning optical apparatus having beam scan controller  
A scanning optical apparatus comprises a light source unit, scanning means for deflecting a beam from said light source unit and scanning a scanning surface with the beam, means for detecting the...
5625482 Scanning optical apparatus  
A laser scanning apparatus includes a deflecting member such as a polygonal mirror for deflecting a laser beam, a lens holder for integrally holding a plurality of lenses, the plurality of lenses...
5621562 Optical Scanning device  
In an optical scanning device, a redirecting flat mirror is provided that redirects a laser flux from a laser source to a polygonal mirror. In order to reduce the size of the optical scanning...
5619363 Laser optical system  
A laser optical system for scanning a laser beam using a rotary polygonal mirror made of plastics. In the laser optical system, a portion close to the edge on the side along the rotary direction of...
5617241 Optical beam scanner  
A rotating polygon mirror for optical beam scanning. The polygon mirror is fixed to a rotating shaft and is rotated at a high speed by a drive force of a rotating drive with brushes. Additionally,...
5615038 Scanning optical device with aberration compensation feature  
A scanning optical device for scanning a material to be scanned with a beam emitted from a light source thereof, has a storage device for storing information relating to the quantity of deviation...
5610647 Image forming apparatus including a plural laser beam scanning apparatus  
An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a charging unit, a laser beam scanning apparatus and a developing unit. The laser beam scanning apparatus includes a semiconductor...
5606449 Optical scanning device  
An optical scanning device includes a laser source, an optical deflector which deflects scanning beams emitted from the laser source in a main scanning direction toward an object to be scanned, and...
5606448 Polygon scanner and production process thereof  
A polygon scanner has a lighter rotating shaft on which a polygon mirror is mounted, to prevent a positional deviation of the polygon mirror from the rotating shaft in high speed rotation, in which...
5604622 Laser scanning device  
In a scanning optical system, a light emitting device emits a beam to a deflection mirror. The beam is inclined in the direction of the auxiliary scanning, so that the optical axis of the beam...
5604621 Scanner motor  
An inner fixed shaft of a scanner motor is secured to a housing by a screw. A rotary polygon mirror is attached to the inner fixed shaft through bearings of a cylindrical portion. A spiral-shaped...
5604620 Light deflector  
A light deflector for p-polarized light of wavelength λ includes a light deflector member of a material principally composed of an aluminum allow with an aluminum oxide file, formed on the...
5600495 Structure for attaching scanning optical system  
Of lenses constituting an fθ lens, with respect to the lens L2 having a greatest difference between absolute values of surface power at both surfaces thereof, a convex surface having a greater...
5600475 Laser scanner  
An improved laser scanner has a scanning lens composed of a single lens element and at least one surface of that lens element is of such a geometry that the curvature in a direction normal to the...
5598292 Method of designing a post-objective type optical scanner and product made by the method  
The present invention provides a method of designing a post-objective type optical scanner having an optical deflector composed of cylindrical or spherical reflecting surfaces for deflecting a...
5598291 Polygon mirror mounting structure  
A polygon mirror mounting structure mounting a polygon mirror to an outer periphery of a rotor includes a mirror seating surface formed on the outer peripheral portion of the rotor for seating the...
5596445 Light scanning system  
In a light scanning system, a semiconductor laser outputs a laser beam which diverges with a beam divergence angle. A condensing/scanning optical system condenses the laser beam and causes the...
5596444 Optical apparatus having laser beam diameter variable according to image data  
Image data input from a host computer is converted into data BDATA corresponding to a beam diameter at an image control circuit. BDATA is input into a voice coil 21 driving a collimator lens...
5596443 Polygon mirror rotor and polygon mirror scanner motor having such rotor  
A polygon mirror rotor includes a ceramic ring of a generally hollow cylindrical shape having a cylindrical inner surface serving as a sliding surface of a radial hydrodynamic bearing and a pair of...
5594556 Scanner having a misalignment detector  
A laser scanning device is disclosed which includes a spinner, one light spot misalignment detector and a beam misalignment corrector. The spinner scans a light beam across a scanning line. The...
5592337 Mirror fastener for optical scanning device  
A mirror mount having internal protrusions accepts a snap-in fastener. The snap-in fastener is supported by one side of the protrusions, and resiliently holds the mirror against the remaining side...
5587826 Optical beam scanning apparatus adjusting focal point over entire image forming area by feedback control  
In an optical beam scanning apparatus having an electrooptic lens, a focal point of a light beam is adjusted to be exactly positioned on a scanning surface by a feedback control at any positions...
5585955 Polygonal mirror optical scanning system  
An optical system for scanning a light beam across an object where the light beam is double reflected by the reflection surfaces of a rotating polygonal mirror. Beam expander optics are included in...
5581534 Device for realizing a longitudinal pattern of substantially parallel tracks in a record carrier which controls movement of the record carrier on the basis of trackpitch  
An optical scanning device for realizing in a recording layer of an optical tape a longitudinal path (i.e. pattern) of substantially parallel tracks. The device includes an optical system for...
5581416 Polygonal mirror, and manufacturing process and mold thereof  
A resin polygonal mirror having reflective facets each of which is made by injecting resin from a plurality of pin point gates or a single film gate. A core of the polygonal mirror is made of a...
5574592 Rotatable polygon mirror  
A rotatable polygon mirror comprising a transparent regular polygonal cylinder having the sides of a regular polygon. The sides are rotationally symmetrical with one another relative to a rotating...
5574591 Polygon scanner and production process thereof  
A polygon scanner has a lighter rotating shaft on which a polygon mirror is mounted, to prevent a positional deviation of the polygon mirror from the rotating shaft in high speed rotation, in which...
5572353 Laser scanning device  
In a scanning optical system, a light emitting device emits a beam to a deflection mirror. The beam is inclined in the direction of the auxiliary scanning, so that the optical axis of the beam...
5570222 Underwater viewing system for remote piloted vehicle  
An underwater viewing system includes a dry and wet end. Illumination energy is provided to the wet end where it is scanned and the resulting scanned illumination is directed to a scene of...
5570183 Apparatus for measuring optical characteristics of a surface in two dimensions using a moving light source  
A system for measuring optical characteristics of a surface such as orange peel includes a light source and detector retained upon a support block and translatable as a single unit. The light...
5568366 Compact solar simulator with a small subtense angle and controlled magnification optics  
The present invention is directed to a method of simulating a pseudosun using a solar simulator. In the present invention the collector and lens of a lamp are designed to properly focus a plurality...
5566016 Laser beam scanner  
A laser beam scanner is composed of an optical source, a beam deflector for deflecting the beam emitted from the optical source and a sensitive drum for performing printing and photosensitive...
5563729 Image forming light scanning apparatus  
A scanning apparatus has a luminous flux deflector and a single fθ lens. The deflector deflects a convergent luminous flux on a scanned surface at a uniform angular velocity. The fθ lens is...