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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:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sadao Masubuchi, Saitama, JP;
Shigeru Futakami, Saitama, JP;
Masaaki Matsunaga, Saitama, JP;
Masafumi Yokoyama, Saitama, JP;
Akira Shiota, Saitama, JP;
Shinichi Nonaka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/47 ; B41J 2/445 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/47 ; B41J 2/445 ;
Abstract
In an optical printer apparatus designed so that an optical head ( ) having an LED light source ( ) therein is moved relatively to a sensitized sheet ( ) and an image is formed by emitting a plurality of color light beams in regular order from the LED so that the light beams are focused at given spaces on the sensitized sheet, an image pitch P for the color light beams is substantially equal to an integer multiple of the maximum exposure distance D.