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5561545 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...
5559627 Optics for passive facet tracking  
A passive facet tracking system using passive optical components to induce a beam of light to track a facet of a rotating mirror polygon. The properties of the passive components are such that they...
5557449 Laser beam scanning apparatus for controlling diameter of light spot  
A laser beam scanning apparatus includes: a light source unit for emitting a collimated laser light beam; a rotary deflector unit for deflecting a laser light beam from the light source unit; a...
5557438 Scanning and tracking using rotating polygons  
A system for scanning or tracking, which includes a polygon rotatable about a rotational axis. The system further includes a fixed radiation source directing radiation at the polygon along a path...
5555125 Optical scanner  
Optical scanner having a laser source for generating a laser beam, a first deflector for deflecting the laser beam towards an array of reflectors, the first deflector and the array of reflectors...
5555123 Flying spot scanner  
A moving mask is incorporated in a flying spot scanner to reduce flare. The mask obscures all portions of the object being scanned, except for a small region surrounding the point currently being...
5546216 Optical scanning system  
An optical scanning system which converges light flux on a photoconductive member by an optical scanning lens after the light flux from a light source is coupled by a coupling lens (a condensing...
5541761 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...
5539719 Light beam deviation detecting device used in an image forming apparatus  
A light beam deviation detecting device for detecting deviation of parallel light beams which simultaneously scan a photoreceptor in a primary scanning direction of the parallel light beams. The...
5532866 Polygonal mirror and manufacturing method thereof and light beam scanning optical apparatus using the polygonal mirror  
A light beam scanning optical apparatus which deflects a light beam emitted from a light source with a polygonal mirror and scans the light beam on a photosensitive member through an fθ optical...
5532730 Light beam scanning apparatus  
A light beam scanning apparatus for recording an image on a photosensitive material by scanning with an light beam having image information of the image. The apparatus includes a cylinder for...
5530579 Laser beam optical scanning device  
A laser beam optical scanning device which has a laser diode, a collimator lens, a cylindrical lens, a polygonal scanner and an f θ lens. The polygonal scanner is made of resin, and when the...
5528412 Optical beam scanning apparatus  
An optical beam scanning apparatus which includes: an optical modulator which emits an optical beam in a direction corresponding to the frequency of an inputted signal; scanning device for scanning...
5521739 Raster output scanner for reducing color misregistration  
There is disclosed a raster output scanner for a color printing system which utilizes an indexed rotating polygon mirror in order to scan each given scan line from each latent image by a given...
5515198 Optical active matrix display  
An optical active matrix display uses a light beam through a plurality of lightguide paths in a transparent substrate for switching signals to display an image. The display includes end surfaces of...
5510826 Optical scanning apparatus  
In an optical scanning apparatus, a light beam emitted from a light source is collimated and is incident on a reflecting surface of a deflector via stop member. The deflector deflectively reflects...
5506719 Optical scanning device  
An optical scanning device for leading a laser beam emitted from a semiconductor laser diode through a collimator lens, an imaging lens, and a cylindrical lens to a plurality of reflecting surfaces...
5506718 Scanning optical apparatus  
A scanning optical apparatus has a source (1) of light for producing a light beam as a light flux (5) in a given direction, a polariscope (2) for polarizing the light flux (5) of the light beam in...
5504613 Optical scanner  
In an optical scanner, a light beam from a light source device is formed by a linear image forming optical system as a linear image extending in a main scan-corresponding direction. The light beam...
5498869 Apparatus for wobble correction using an agile beam polygon ROS and all-spherical optics  
Facet-to-facet pyramidal wobble is corrected without resorting to cylindrical optics by adapting agile beam concepts to provide real-time control of the light beam position on the photoreceptor....
5497252 Internal drum plotter with multiple focal point holographic optical element  
An internal drum plotter in which a multiple focal point holographic element receives respective modulated light beams, one for each focal point, to focus the light beams on a light sensitive...
5493388 Distance measuring device  
A distance measuring device of laser beam using type has a laser diode for producing laser beams. A scanning mechanism projects the laser beams against an object and includes a polygon mirror to...
5488502 Light beam scanning device and image formation lens  
In a laser beam-scanning apparatus equipped with a rotatable polygonal mirror and an image formation lens system, a lens of the lens system has a cylindrical surface curved in the secondary...
5486945 Optics for passive facet tracking  
A passive facet tracking system using passive optical components to induce a beam of light to track a facet of a rotating mirror polygon. The properties of the passive components are such that they...
5483054 Converging position detecting apparatus with a single photodetecting element  
A single photodetecting element, in front of which a knife edge is placed, is disposed in front of a scanning surface and outside a laser beam scanning region for the scanning surface. Two mirrors...
5479583 Means to achieve a square intensity profile at an image plane by intensity and phase profiling  
An optical system is disclosed which utilizes a pair of binary diffraction optic lenses to reprofile the intensity and the amplitude distribution profiles of a light beam prior to a rotating...
5477374 Optical beam scanning apparatus  
An optical beam scanning apparatus which includes: an optical modulator which emits an optical beam in a direction corresponding to the frequency of an inputted signal; scanning device for scanning...
5477373 Laser beam optical scanning device  
A laser beam optical scanning device including a housing, a light source for emitting a unidirectional laser beam, polygonal mirror for deflection scanning a laser beam emitted from the light...
5477372 Optical scanner  
An optical scanner for use with laser printers and the like. In the optical scanner, a semiconductor laser device is combined with an aperture and a collimator lens which is one single spherical...
5475524 Optics for passive facet tracking and passive scan angle doubling  
A passive facet tracking scan angle doubling system using passive optical components to induce a beam of light to track a facet of a rotating mirror polygon and to increase the scanning angle...
5475522 Optical scanner  
An optical scanner has a light source device for emitting a light beam for performing an optical scanning operation; a cylindrical lens system for converging the light beam from the light source...
5469290 Two-element zoom lens for beam separation error correction  
A raster output scanner is disclosed which utilizes a spot separation error correction system prior to its rotating polygon mirror. The spot separation error correction system of this invention is...
5463490 Light beam deflecting device  
In a light beam deflecting device for deflecting a laser beam by using a rotary polygon mirror, the rotary shaft of the rotary polygon mirror is rotatably supported by a plurality of ball bearings...
5461505 Polygon mirror  
A polygon mirror includes a polygon base having a plurality of attaching surfaces, a plurality of base plates each of which is fixed to each of the attaching surfaces of the base and has a...
5461498 Light scanning device  
In a preferred mode of a light scanning device, a reflection mirror is designed in an inverted cup-shaped form and has a hexahedral means portion at the outer side thereof and a bearing at the...
5457567 Laser scanner having improved frequency characteristics  
A laser scanner is disclosed, in which M, the lateral magnification obtained from the first and the second optical members, V 1 , the scanning velocity of the scanning beam on the beam receiving...
5457550 Optical scanner unit having recursive optical system  
An optical scanner unit for scanning a document includes a laser unit for emitting a laser beam used for scanning the document, an optical system in which the laser beam emitted from the laser unit...
5455706 Mirror-moving system  
A mirror-moving system having a mirror mounted on a support member able to be repulsed by a superconductor, the mirror being suspended above a superconductive material and a ferromagnetic material...
5444239 Fiber optic scanning beam detector  
A fiber optic system is used in a laser ROS scanning system to generate a start of scan signal. In one embodiment, a single optical fiber is positioned at the beginning of a scan line sweep. The...
5442171 Optical system including provisions for correcting scanning beam spot displacements due to changing ambient conditions  
A beam spot detector is disposed on an extension of a surface to be scanned by a beam of light. The beam spot detector has a mask in front thereof, the mask having a side which the beam of light...
5438450 Optical scanning apparatus  
In an optical scanning apparatus, a light beam from a light source is deflected by a deflector and the deflected light beam is converged on a scanning surface by an optical system. The light beam...
5438449 Beam pointing switch  
An optical beam switch is disclosed for sequentially pointing a laser beam to a plurality of terrestrial target locations at predetermined depression angles and at angular positions relative to a...
5438448 Turning mirror and method of manufacture  
The present invention discloses the construction and manufacturing method of a turning mirror which has a single face or multiple face reflector mirror for scanning laser light in a laser beam...
5434696 Active energy diametric scanning  
A method and a device for diametric active scanning of a forward region using a collimated beam of radiation energy to detect and track target objects by collecting beam energy scattered by the...
5430571 Rotary mirror system  
A rotary mirror system for angularly deflecting a light beam including an air bearing arrangement rotatably supporting a mirror body on which one or more mirror facets are provided, the mirror body...
5430570 Light deflector  
The present invention provides a light deflector which effectively cools a rotation torque generation portion, which leads to miniaturization of the apparatus and economy of electric power. The...
5422753 Binary diffraction optical element for controlling scanning beam intensity in a raster output scanning (ROS) optical system  
A binary diffractive optical element provides uniform intensity for the scanning beam of a raster output scanning (ROS) optical system by diffracting the excess intensity of the beam.
5420713 Optical scanner  
An optical scanner that includes: a rotating polygon mirror for scanning by deflecting a light beam for writing a latent image on a photosensitive body in a predetermined direction; a rotating...
5418639 Light beam scanning device  
A light beam scanning device in which two image formation lenses are disposed between a rotational polygonal mirror to reflect a light beam sent from a laser beam source, and a surface to be...
5408352 Optical scanner  
Optical scanner, comprising a laser source for generating a laser beam, a first deflector for deflecting the laser beam towards a array of reflectors, the first deflector and the array of...