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Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 10, 2017
Applicants:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yasushi Kuribayashi, Mishima Shizuoka, JP;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/043 (2006.01); H04N 1/193 (2006.01); H04N 1/29 (2006.01); H04N 1/028 (2006.01); G03G 15/01 (2006.01); G03G 15/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/0435 (2013.01); G03G 15/011 (2013.01); G03G 15/0131 (2013.01); G03G 15/0189 (2013.01); G03G 15/04036 (2013.01); G03G 15/1605 (2013.01); H04N 1/02815 (2013.01); H04N 1/1937 (2013.01); H04N 1/29 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0421 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0081 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0091 (2013.01);
Abstract

An exposure unit comprises a polygon mirror configured to include a plurality of reflection surfaces; first to fourth light sources arranged at different angle positions along a rotation direction of the polygon mirror; two photo detectors configured to selectively detect first laser light and fourth laser light respectively at a scanning start end side of a main scanning direction among first to fourth laser light which are emitted from the respective light sources and reflected by the polygon mirror to be scanned in the main scanning direction; and a control section configured to control light emitting timing of the first to the fourth light sources on the basis of detection results of these photo detectors.


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