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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 20, 1997
Katsunori Kawabata, Osaka, JP;
Katsumi Horinishi, Hashimoto, JP;
West Electric Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
By more widely diffusing light from a rod light source, particularly in the direction of the length of the rod light source than conventional strobe lights and image recorders, a strobe light of the present invention and an image recorder containing the strobe light provide luminous intensity distribution characteristics including a light emitting angle large enough to cover, for example, landscape images and the angle of coverage of imaging lenses with a short focal length. This allows the light emitting angle in the direction of the length of the rod light source to increase during wide-angle imaging, with little variation in the luminous intensity distribution characteristics in the direction at right angles to the direction of the length of the rod light source, as compared with known-arrangement strobe lights.