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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1991
Akiyoshi Hamada, Toyokawa, JP;
Hiromu Nakamura, Toyokawa, JP;
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A beam scanning optical system having a semiconductor laser for emitting a light beam; a cylindrical lens for converging the laser beam into a straight line; a polygon mirror for deflecting the laser beam which converged the cylindrical lens at a constant angular velocity; a spherical mirror for collecting the deflected laser beam on a surface of a photosensitive member; and a lens disposed between the polygon mirror and the spherical mirror, the lens having at least one toroidal surface. The lens is so disposed that its beam entrance side and beam exit side are decentered in a direction of the beam scanning, and curvature of the entrance side and curvature of the exit side on a plane of deflection have different centers. The entrance side and the exit side of the lens are a toroidal surface and a spherical surface respectively, and the spherical surface is decentered in a direction perpendicular to the plane of deflection in respect to the toroidal surface. Also, the spherical mirror is decentered in a direction perpendicular to the plane of deflection.
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