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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. 21, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hirohisa Kitano, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 1/514 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 1/514 ;
Abstract
Disclosed are optical writing devices each of which has three arrays of light shutter elements for emitting light signals of red, green and blue, respectively. The arrays of light shutter elements of each optical writing device are adjustably provided in an image forming apparatus with respect to sub-scan direction.