Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Atago Co., Ltd.

Toshio Kasai

Takashi Iizuka

Yoshihiro Yamazaki

Yoshiyuki Araki

Hideyuki Amamiya

Hiroto Watanabe

Yoshinori Nakashima

Keiji Kawada

A viscosity measurement unit includes a first stage having a first surface, a second stage having a second surface and configured to rotate with the second surface which is opposed and in proximity to the first surface, a motor including a motor body and a shaft that is an output shaft of the motor body and configured to rotate synchronously with the second stage, a fixed member arranged to rotatably support the shaft and the motor body, and a strain gauge unit fixed to the fixed member and configured to be biased by a contact of the motor body when the motor body rotates in a first direction with respect to the fixed member.

Viscosity measurement unit and viscometer

A deterioration sensing device comprises a laser diode (LD), a voltage-current converter supplying electric current to the LD to radiate a laser beam which is received by a photo-diode, and an APC circuit outputting electric voltage in accordance with the intensity of the laser beam sensed by the photo-diode. The voltage-current converter is controlled based on the electric voltage so that the intensity of the laser beam is kept constant. An LD deterioration circuit is provided with a comparator, in which the electric voltage is compared with a reference voltage. An LD deterioration control unit is provided in the LD deterioration circuit to output a deterioration signal when the electric voltage becomes higher than the reference voltage, so that an alarm, indicating that the LD has deteriorated, is output, and the electric current supplied to the LD is decreased.

Deterioration sensing device for light-emitting diode

An optical scanning device is provided with a light source that emits a light beam, a driver that controls output power and modulation of the light beam emitted by the light source, a controller that transmits, to the driver, power control data and modulation data respectively used for controlling the output power and modulation of the light beam. The optical scanning device is further provided with a single data bus that connects the driver and the controller. The power control data and the modulation data being transmitted through the single data bus at different timing.

Optical scanning device

Disclosed is a multi-beam laser scanning device which scans a surface to be scanned with a plurality of laser beams in accordance with an image data. Each image data includes driving pulses which periodically occur in each image data, and are representative of intensity of laser beams. Phase of the image signals are shifter with each other so that the driving pulses do not overlap within a period of the driving pulses.

Multi-beam scanning device

An optical scanning system has an image reading scanning system for emitting a first scanning beam of light to read an image of an object, an image forming scanning system for emitting a second scanning beam of light to form an image on a light receiving surface, and a light receiving element. Each of the first and second scanning beams is incident on the light receiving element when each of the first and second scanning beams is located at an end portion of a scanning area, and the first scanning beam and the second scanning beam have different optical characteristics. The optical scanning system also has a circuit for generating a horizontal synchronous signal for the image reading optical system and the image forming optical system, respectively, in accordance with light received by the light receiving element.

Optical scanning system

A laser beam emitting device is provided for use, for example, in a laser beam printer. The device includes a single laser diode for emitting a laser beam having an output power level that is dependent on a driving current supplied to the laser diode. Two laser diode drivers are connected to the single laser diode and can be individually energized to drive the single laser diode to emit a laser beam that can have different output power levels. A selector is connected to the drivers for producing one of a plurality of selecting signals corresponding to the different output power levels, respectively, to select and energize one of the drivers.

Laser beam emitting device with selective laser beam power output level

A laser driving circuit is provided for driving a laser diode, in which the intensity of the laser beam emitted by the laser diode depends upon the amount of electrical current flowing through the laser diode. The laser driving circuit includes a current source for generating an electrical current to flow through the laser diode, the electrical current being varied in accordance with the voltage applied to the current source. In the laser driving circuit, voltage is applied to the current source in accordance with the intensity of the laser beam emitted by the laser diode. A variable resistor member is further provided for varying the voltage applied to the current source and at least one fixed resistor member is selectively connected in parallel with the variable resistor member for dividing the voltage, varied by the variable resistor member, at a predetermined ratio.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshio Kasai