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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1988
Toru Teshigawara, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuo Terao, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Watanabe, Chiba, JP;
Yukihiko Shimizu, Chiba, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Futaba Corporation, Chiba, JP;
Abstract
An optical write head for an electrostatic dot-matrix image printing system which includes a plurality of controlled light emission element row-arrays positioned parallel and spaced in the direction perpendicular to the row-wise direction a distance equal to an integer multiple of the desired dot image-pitch S measured in the perpendicular direction, corrected by the fraction S/N where N is the number of row-arrays. A timed electrode drive circuit activates the arrays sequentially, and grid mask elements extending transversely across the row-arrays control emission from the individual light emission elements in an activated array, to minimize the number of drive circuit switching elements. A series-to-parallel signal conversion and storage circuit preprocesses the recording signal of the image to be printed.