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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2020
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Shingo Yoshida, Osaka, JP;
Tatsuya Kobayashi, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An optical scanning device includes a housing, a transmissive member, a wire-shaped member, a driving portion, a cleaning holder, a cleaning member, a stopper, and a control portion. The control portion is capable of executing a cleaning mode including at least one of a forward travel operation of controlling the wire-shaped member to travel in a first direction so that the cleaning holder moves along the transmissive member and a backward travel operation of, after executing the forward travel operation, controlling the wire-shaped member to travel in a second direction so that the cleaning holder moves in an opposite direction to a direction of the forward travel operation. The control portion executes a load releasing operation of controlling the cleaning holder to move by a prescribed amount in an opposite direction to the direction of the forward travel operation or the direction of the backward travel operation.