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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tadaaki Suda, Saitama-ken, JP;
Nobuyuki Hori, Saitama-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359201 ; 359204 ; 359216 ; 250235 ; 250236 ;
Abstract
A scanning apparatus. The scanning apparatus has a cascade scanning optical system in which a scanning line, made by a scanning laser beam emitted by a first laser scanning optical system of a plurality of laser scanning optical systems, and a second scanning line emitted by a second laser scanning optical system of the plurality of laser scanning optical systems, are prevented from deviating from each other in either a main scanning direction or a sub-scanning direction.