Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Sakakibara Kenji

Akao Michitoshi

Katoh Tokunori

Sawaki Yukichi

Kawahara Hiroshi

Sonoda Takakuni

In an imaging device for forming a visible image on a recording medium by pressurizing the recording medium, provided are means for detecting a certain position of the recording medium to be pressurized before the recording medium is pressurized, and means for controlling timing of beginning and stopping to pressurize the recording medium based upon a result of the detecting operation. Thus, the recording medium is accurately begun to pressurize at the leading end and stopped to pressurize at the trailing end regardless of a variation of a travelling speed for the recording medium.

Imaging device

In an exposure system, a photo-sensitive recording medium rests on a resting surface of a table. The recording medium on the resting surface is illuminated with light from a light source and is exposed to the light. The resting surface has reflectivity which is so determined as to increase from a central region of the resting surface gradually toward opposite end regions thereof in such a manner that a sum of a quantity of the light from the light source, with which the recording medium is illuminated directly, and a quantity of light transmitted through the recording medium and reflected by the resting surface, with which the recording medium is illuminated indirectly, is made substantially uniform over the entire surface of the recording medium.

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Ichinomiya, Japan

Sakakibara Kenji