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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2005
Kyoji Shimoda, Amagasaki, JP;
Koichi Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Kyoji Shimoda, Amagasaki, JP;
Koichi Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention measures jitter in a galvano scanner that scans a light beam on a surface to be scanned by periodically turning a reflection mirror in a reciprocating manner. Two detectors for detecting and receiving the light beam are mounted near both ends of the scan region of the light beam, a first detection signal of each of the two detectors is extracted whenever the reflection mirror is activated for one scanning, a required time for one scanning is computed from the extracted detection signals, and a variation in the required time for each scanning is measured based on the computed required time.