Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Minolta Camera Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Kageyama

Nobuo Kanai

Kenji Takeshita

Katsuhiko Takeda

Osamu Yamada

Tetsuo Kyogoku

Shinichi Mori

Toshikazu Suzuki

Keijiro Sakamoto

Masayuki Nino

A copying machine for forming an image by scanning a laser beam which is emitted from an optical system on a photosensitive member. Photosensors are provided at optically equivalent positions to a beginning portion and an end portion of a scanning line on a photosensitive member. A scanning time of a laser beam in the main scanning direction is measured by these photosensors. The measured time and a standard time for a copy magnification set by an operator are compared, and a correction value is calculated, and at the same time, magnification in the main scanning direction is corrected using the correcting value. Also, focusing (adjusting of the beam diameter) is carried out using the photosensors. Each of the photosensors contains a photoelectric transfer element, and a beam which comes through a slit is incident to the element. Each photosensor is provided with two slits. One is perpendicular to the main scanning direction, and the other is inclined to the main scanning direction. The beam diameter in the main scanning direction is adjusted based on detection of the beam which comes through the slit which is perpendicular to the main scanning direction. The beam diameter in the sub scanning direction is adjusted based on detection of the beam which comes through the slit inclined to the main scanning direction.

Digital method image forming apparatus and image forming method thereof

A plurality of holding members individually hold some of a plurality of lenses in a scanning optical system. A base member holds and connects a plurality of the holding members at predetermined positional relations with rigidity higher than that of the holding member, and is attached to a structural member of an image forming apparatus.

Image forming apparatus with optical element support structure

Image forming apparatus and method for maintaining set magnification not

An apparatus for editing color image capable, by having a desired color in an original designated and an editing mode selected, of image editing for an image in the designated color in such an editing mode as trimming, masking, erasing, and conversion to another color. A desired color in an original image is designated by a designated color input portion and thereby designated color data for separated colors are obtained. Thereafter, the original image is scanned and image data for separated colors are obtained. The thus input image data are electrically edited in the selected edit mode based on the designated color data and the edited image data are output to an image forming unit and thereby an edited color image is obtained.

Image forming apparatus capable of editing color image

A laser beam composite apparatus which combines more than three beams including a first beam having a first wavelength, a second beam having a second wavelength and polarized in a predetermined direction and a third beam having a second wavelength and polarized in a direction perpendicular to said polarized direction of said second beam. The laser beam composite apparatus combines the first beam and the second beam based on difference of wavelengths thereof and further combines the third beam based on difference of polarized directions thereof.

Laser beam composite apparatus

A slit illumination system provided in an image forming apparatus of slit exposure type for slit-illumination of an original placed on a document glass table in the image forming apparatus. The slit illumination system is provided with a light source including an elongated exposure lamp to illuminate the original at a slit-illuminated position on the document glass table, a main reflecting mirror portion composed of first and second reflecting mirrors, and an auxiliary reflecting mirror portion composed of third and fourth reflecting mirrors. The first, second, third and fourth reflecting mirrors are respectively shaped to follow a part of first, second, third and fourth ellipsoids which are different in curvature from each other.

Slit illumination system for copying machine and the like

An interference filter for use in a copying machine comprises a glass substrate and a plurality of high-refractive index and low-refractive index layers alternately superposed on the substrate for reducing ripples at opposite sides of the reflective range. The first and second layers counted from the substrate have a greater optical layer thickness than .lambda.o/2. The third and fourth layers have a greater optical layer thickness than .lambda.o/4. The second top layer has a greater optical layer thickness than .lambda.o/2. The top layer has a smaller optical layer thickness than .lambda.o/4. The remaining layers have an optical layer thickness equal to .lambda.o/4.

Interference filter with sharp cutoff characteristics

A light-transmission viewing screen for displaying an optical image from a beam of light projected thereon along a predetermined path of light provided rearwardly of the screen, the viewing screen having a virtual center axis extending toward a viewer's viewing position, the light-transmission viewing screen comprising a transparent or translucent transmission screen plate through which to transmit the beam of light, and a transmission grating located on at least a portion of one of the surfaces of the transmission screen plate for diffracting the beam of light toward a location substantially aligned with the virtual center axis of the viewing screen when the beam of light is transmitted through the transmission grating.

Transmission viewing screen of image projector apparatus

An optical filter used for a color image reader in order to adjust each amount of red, green and blue rays into constant ratio and to cutoff the rays of the near infrared radiation, the optical filter having a heat absorbing optical glass substrate and first and second interference films formed on the opposite sides of the substrates. The first interference film has three to eleven layers wherein a first layer immediately adjacent to the substrate has an optical thickness of .lambda./4 or .lambda./8 and a last layer farthest from the substrate has an optical thickness of .lambda./8, and said second interference film has thirteen to twenty-three layers wherein each of a first layer, second layer and third layer formed closest to the substrate in this order has an optical thickness greater than .lambda./4 and a last layer farthest from the substrate has an optical thickness of .lambda./8.

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Hitoshi Kageyama