Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takao Tsuji

Hideaki Sato

Takeshi Goshima

Kazuya Matsumoto

Yoshinori Sugiura

Masamichi Tateoka

Kazuo Minoura

Takashi Nakano

Naoto Kawamura

Hiroo Ichihashi

Setsuo Minami

Kiyonobu Endo

Kazuhiro Hirayama

Isao Yamaguchi

Ryusho Hirose

Junji Ichikawa

Kimio Kono

A device for scanning a beam spot. The device has a light deflecting portion and a light condensing thin film lens formed on a thin film waveguide path. In this device, a chirped signal is applied to a surface elastic wave transducer constituting the light deflecting portion, whereby scanning of the beam spot is effected on or near the curved end surface of the thin film waveguide path. This device is very compact and capable of high-speed scanning.

Beam spot scanning device

There is provided a recording apparatus including a holder member upon which an image is formed by scanning a modulated beam, a transfer device for transferring the formed image to a continuous transfer material, a transfer material transporting device for loading the continuous transfer paper and a feeding device for feeding the transfer material. The transfer material transporting device includes a set of members which open to accommodate the transfer material, a holder for retaining the transfer material, an endless rotary member which moves the holder through the open members and a control for controlling the opening and closing of the members. The feeding device includes an index and a transporting mechanism for moving the continuous transfer material a distance corresponding to the distance between the index and transfer device. The feeding device also includes another transport mechanism, both transport mechanisms beginning and stopping at different times. The recording apparatus is also provided with a potential measuring head located along the scanning path but not beyond the print end region on the holder member.

Recording apparatus

A light beam scanning device of a construction, in which an image forming scanning optical system is provided with an expedient for preventing spot intensity of a light beam on a scanning surface from falling off at a peripheral region of a scanning object in comparison with its center part, and a light beam modulator is provided with an expedient for making constant a length of a single dot drawn by a beam spot with respect to one modulating signal on the scanning surface.

Light beam scanning device with constant spot intensity and scan speed

A signal recording device comprises information means for introducing frequency-modulated information signals, generator means for generating control signals corresponding to the frequencies of the information signals introduced by the information means, control means for varying the level of signals applied thereto in accordance with the output of the generator means, input means for applying the information signals to the control means, modulator means for applying, as modulation signals, the level-varied information signals provided by the control means, and beam generating means for generating a beam the intensity of which is to be varied by the modulator means.

Signal recording device

An optical high density recording device which comprises, in combination, a beam generator, a beam modulator to modulate the beam in accordance with an applied modulating signal, a recording medium to record a locus of the beam irradiated thereonto. The recording medium and the beam irradiated onto the recording medium are moved relatively to one another, a recording signal is introduced onto the recording medium, a corrective voltage to be determined by a function of the recording signal is generated and is applied with the recording signal to the beam modulator as a modulating signal.

Optical high density FM recording device with corrective signal

Two-dimensional scanning apparatus scans a stationary two-dimensional surface with a first deflector and a second deflector which deflects a light beam in a direction perpendicular to the deflecting direction of said first deflector. An afocal optical system is provided between said first and second deflectors, while an imaging lens system is provided between said second deflector and the scanning surface. Said first deflector, afocal optical system and imaging lens system cooperate to displace the light beam at a constant speed in a principal scanning direction on the scanning surface, while said second deflector and imaging lens system cooperate to displace the light beam at a constant speed in an auxiliary scanning direction on said surface.

Two-dimensional scanning apparatus with constant speed scan

From an object side, there are a fixed lens, a first movable lens, a second movable lens, and a fixed lens being positioned in that order, wherein the first movble lens is coupled with a first position detecting means and the second movable lens is coupled with a second position detecting means, and at the same time it is coupled with a lens shifting means which is controlled by the above mentioned two detecting means. For photographing which involves zooming, first the second movable lens is shifted for focusing. Next, as the first movable lens is shifted, the amount of shifting is detected by the first detecting means and then the second movable lens is shifted based on the detected value of the same. The amount of shifting of said second movable lens is determined by a functional equation which has been set as the optical system is designed, while the position adjustment of the second movable lens is controlled by the lens shifting means and the second detecting means. While magnification variation is performed as a result of shifting of the first movable lens and of the second movable lens, there will be no shifting of image in an image.

Zoom lens system having electrical control of moving elements

In an optical head moving device, there is provided a pair of parallel, spaced apart guide members having the axes thereof lying on a common plane. A movable member having engaging portions engaged with the pair of guide members and a connecting portion connecting together the engaging portions is provided on the guide members. An optical head for focusing a light beam introduced thereinto is securely mounted on the movable member in such a manner that the emergence-side principal point of the optical head lies on the plane containing the axes of the pair of guide members. Means is provided for introducing a light beam into the optical head. Mover means is provided for moving the movable means with the engaging portions thereof in engagement with the guide members, to thereby move the optical head.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takao Tsuji