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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001

Filed:

Dec. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Mark Shi Wang, Irvine, CA (US);

Vinod Mirchandani, Agoura, CA (US);

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 2/608 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 2/608 ;
Abstract

A single rotating polygon mirror with v-shaped facets having upper and lower reflective facet surfaces reflects and separates dual beams to two photoreceptors in a ROS. Each facet surface will have a different tilt angle. The two independently modulated beams will share common optical elements between the light sources and the mirror and may share a common f-theta scan lens. Two sets of two beams can be incident upon the facets on opposite sides of the rotating polygon mirror. The polygon mirror facet can also have three or four reflective facet surfaces to reflect and separate three or four independently modulated beams to three or four different photoreceptors.


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