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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2004
Applicants:
Kazunari Tada, Amagasaki, JP;
Junji Hashimura, Sagamihara, JP;
Yuichiro Ori, Moriyama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Opto, Inc., Hachioji, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 3/02 (2006.01); G02B 13/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a beam shaping device for converting the laser light emitted from a semiconductor laser light source from an elliptic beam to a circular beam, the light-entrance-side and light-exit-side surfaces of the beam shaping device both have a curvature only in the major-axis direction of the cross section of the elliptic beam. Of the light-entrance-side and light-exit-side surfaces, one is a circular-arc cylindrical surface and the other is a non-circular-arc cylindrical surface.