Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Takuji Nakamura

Toshinori Otsuki

Yoshihiro Ikemoto

Tadayuki Onoda

Jiro Kataoka

Toshitugu Inoue

Takeshi Nagasawa

Tatuo Nakatugawa

A lens array for reading information employed in a copying machine, a facsimile machine, etc. and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein a pillar lens is formed by cutting a spherical lens parallel to the direction of an optical axis, and a number of the pillar lenses are arranged in two layers, upper and lower layers and then fixed with a pair of frame members, thus effecting mass production of a very accurate lens array at a low cost.

Method of manufacturing a lens array for reading information

A facsimile apparatus using a continuous length of recording paper with its first surface for recording and its second surface for transmitting scripts. Received facsimile signals are recorded on the first surface through a recording section, and scripts which are to be transmitted are written on the second surface and read through a reading section. This arrangement needs only one paper feeding passage and enables the paper to be efficiently used, since a non-recording surface of the paper can be used as a surface on which scripts are written.

Facsimile apparatus

A facsimile apparatus using a continuous length of recording paper with its first surface for recording and its second surface for transmitting scripts. Received facsimile signals are recorded on the first surface through a recording section, and scripts which are to be transmitted are written on the second surface and read through a reading section. This arrangement needs only one paper feeding passage and enables the paper to be efficiently used, since the non-recording surface of the paper can be used as a surface on which scripts are written.

Disclosed is an improvement over a facsimile transmitter apparatus of the type in which a scanning system disposed within a transparent cylinder scans a subject copy wrapped around the cylinder, wherein one side edge of a subject copy wrapping belt is securely fixed to the outer surface of the cylinder in the axial direction thereof while the other side edge is securely fixed to a take-up roller after the belt having been wrapped therearound, the take-up roller being biased to resist the unrolling of the wrapping belt, and the transparent cylinder is rotated through in excess of 360.degree. from the initial position to the wrapping position where the subject copy is wrapped completely around the transparent cylinder and between the transparent cylinder and the wrapping belt, the cylinder being reversed in rotation to release and discharge the subject copy.

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Hirakata, Japan

Takuji Nakamura