Konica Minolta, Inc.

Akira Taniyama

Takahiro Matsuo

So Yano

Takaki Uemura

Hidenari Tachibe

Takafumi Yuasa

Naoki Tajima

Yasushi Nagasaka

Takashi Kurosawa

Ryo Hasegawa

Hideo Uemura

Masahiko Takahashi

An optical device includes: an optical element having a first surface and a second surface; a first seat surface member that abuts on the first surface of the optical element; a first pressing member that abuts on the second surface of the optical element at a position facing the first seat surface member via the optical element, and press the optical element against the first seat surface member; an adjustment member that abuts on the second surface of the optical element at a position different from the first pressing member, and displaces the abutment position to adjust a posture of the optical element; and a second pressing member that abuts on the first surface of the optical element at a position facing the adjustment member via the optical element, and applies a pressing force to the abutment position to press the optical element against the adjustment member.

Optical device, scanning optical device, and image forming device

An optical writing device performs writing by scanning an image surface of a photoconductor with light, and includes a light source unit including a light source that emits light, a deflection unit that deflects and scans the light, an optical element unit for the light, and a housing unit that holds the light source unit, the deflection unit, and the optical element unit. The housing unit includes a vibration isolator that isolates vibration transmitted from a vibration antinode where distribution of vibration in a sub direction perpendicular to a scanning direction of the light on the image surface of the photoconductor is maximum to at least one of seat face parts for the light source unit and the optical element unit having optical sensitivity in the sub direction, in a bottom face part of the housing unit, and a rigidity enhancer that increases rigidity of the seat face part.

Optical writing device and image forming apparatus

In an optical writing device that deflects light beams from first and second light source sections and performs scanning by first and second scanning optical systems, in reflective optical elements disposed in the optical axis direction from after the polygon mirror to before a separation mirror, a number of hold points on each of a writing start side and a writing end side in scanning is same, and in reflective optical elements disposed from after the separation mirror up to a surface to be scanned, a number of hold points on a writing start side of the first scanning optical system is same (one) with that on a writing end side of the second scanning optical system, and a number of hold points on a writing end side of the first scanning optical system is same (two) with that on a writing start side of the second scanning optical system.

An optical print head, including: an elongated substrate having a line-shaped region in which light-emitting elements are arranged; an optical member condensing light from the light-emitting elements onto an irradiation target; a holding member holding the optical member; a base member holding the substrate and the holding member; an integrated circuit mounted in a first region in proximity of an end in a longitudinal direction of the substrate on a first surface of the substrate facing the base member, heat being generated in the integrated circuit during optical writing; and a thermally conductive member between the integrated circuit and the base member. In the optical print head, the holding member has a support portion contacting the substrate in a second region at a position differing from the first region in plan view on a second surface of the substrate not facing the base member.

Optical print head and image forming device

A light emitting device configured to cause a series circuit in which an OLED is connected to a thin film transistor to emit light by applying a predetermined voltage to the thin film transistor includes: a forward direction voltage estimating unit configured to estimate a forward direction voltage in a case where the OLED is caused to emit light at a set light quantity; a driving current amount estimating unit configured to estimate a driving current amount required for causing the OLED to emit light at the set light quantity; a source-drain voltage calculating unit configured to calculate a source-drain voltage applied to the thin film transistor from the predetermined voltage and the forward direction voltage; and a gate-source voltage determining unit configured to determine a gate-source voltage of the thin film transistor corresponding to the source-drain voltage in a case where the driving current amount is a drain current.

Light emitting device, optical write-in device, and image forming device

A print head includes a platform with a face whose portion covered with a heat conductor includes a heat release section, which is deformed relative to a substantially flat portion of the face of the platform to be located at a smaller distance from the surface of the chip in a direction normal to the face at a side near to the light emission area in the longitudinal direction of the light source panel than at another side far from the light emission area. Alternatively, the heat conductor, when disconnected from the face of the platform, is thicker at a side near to the light emission area in the longitudinal direction of the light source panel than at another side far from the light emission area.

Optical scanning device and image forming device having the same

An optical writing apparatus includes: a light source panel including light emitting elements arranged on an elongate glass substrate; an optical member that causes emergent light to form an image; a first holding member holding the optical member; and a second holding member holding the glass substrate, wherein legs are provided below the first holding member on sides of both ends, the legs extending downward, drooping ends of the legs being mounted and fixed on the second holding member, one end of the glass substrate is positioned inside the space, an integrated circuit being provided, a through hole is provided to an upper surface of the second holding member, and when cooling air for the integrated circuit flows into the space, the cooling air is guided through the through hole to a side of a lower surface of the upper surface of the second holding member.

Optical writing apparatus and image forming apparatus

An optical writing device driving a light-emitting element array, modulating light according to a screening pattern that expresses a dithered image, and performing optical writing by focusing light emitted from the light-emitting element array through a lens array onto a photoreceptor. The optical writing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a write start position for writing to the photoreceptor in a main scanning direction and a control unit that performs a control when the write start position corresponds to an i-th light-emitting element from a reference position that corresponds to a first light-emitting element in the main scanning direction, i being a positive integer greater than 1, wherein the control unit supplies pixel values to the i-th light-emitting element onwards, the pixel values being assigned from pixels of the screening pattern from an i-th pixel onwards, from a leading pixel of the screening pattern in the main scanning direction.

An optical writing device performing optical writing with a light-emitting element, performing light amount switching, and including: a unit estimating a first value corresponding to a current amount for causing the element to emit a first light amount immediately after the switching; a unit supplying to the element, from immediately after the switching, a current amount corresponding to a first digital value acquired by quantizing the first value; a unit estimating a time amount through which a current amount for keeping the element emitting the first light amount increases from the current amount for causing the element to emit the first light amount immediately after the switching to a current amount corresponding to a second digital value greater than the first digital value by one step; and a unit supplying to the element, when the time amount elapses after the switching, the current amount corresponding to the second digital value.

Optical writing device and image forming device

An optical writing device including: a current-driven light-emitting element; a thin film transistor configured to supply the light-emitting element with a drive current based on a luminance signal to put the light-emitting element in an on state; and a controller configured to, for each line of an image page, correct a first value of the luminance signal to yield a second value of the luminance signal, and to supply the thin film transistor with the luminance signal at the second value. The second value compensates for a light amount fluctuation of the light-emitting element that is dependent upon an emission/non-emission history, from an initial line of the image page to the line, of a first continuous period where the light-emitting element is kept in the on state and a second continuous period where the light-emitting period is kept in an off state.

An optical writing device adopting a low cost and simple structure can obtain temperatures of light emitting elements. The device comprises a plurality of light emitting elements arranged linearly in a main scanning direction. The amount of light emitting of the light emitting elements changes by self-generated heat. The light emitting elements are divided into a plurality of groups. Each of the groups includes a prescribed number of light emitting elements. The device comprises a control unit for calculating the amount of heat generation of the light emitting elements for each of groups from clock time t0 to clock time t0+&#x394;t. The control unit calculates the temperature for each of the groups at the clock time t0+&#x394;t, based on the amount of heat generation from the clock time t0 to the clock time t0+&#x394;t and the temperature at the clock time t0.

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Akira Taniyama