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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 1990
Filed:
May. 22, 1987
Takanori Hisada, Yokohama, JP;
Takesuke Maruyama, Yokohama, JP;
Masaharu Deguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshihiko Noro, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshifumi Honma, Hitachi, JP;
Yoshio Ariki, Yokohama, JP;
Shunichi Taguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A light scanning system employing a rotating mirror, spherical lens, and a toric-surfaced reflecting mirror. The toric-surfaced reflecting mirror is disposed in the optical path between the spherical lens and the image plane. The spherical lens sufficiently corrects field curvature and the toric-surfaced reflecting mirror corrects scan nonlinearity. And by the spherical lens and the toric-surfaced reflecting mirror together, the field curvature and the scan nonlinearity are satisfactorily corrected. The toric-surfaced reflecting mirror is surfaced to have a circular arc with a larger radius of curvature in the scan plane and to have a circular arc with a smaller radius of curvature in the cross-scan plane.