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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2007
Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Saitama, JP;
Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Saitama, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A light scanning device includes: a housing; a light deflector provided at the housing, and rotating deflecting surfaces thereof around a rotating shaft, and deflecting light beams; plural light sources provided at the housing, and emitting the light beams in a direction that intersects the rotating shaft of the light deflector; an imaging optical system provided at the housing, and focusing each of the plural light beams deflected by the light deflector onto a surface-to-be-scanned; and an optical path changing member provided at the housing, and changing, to within a plane that includes the rotating axis of the light detector, optical paths of the light beams that are incident in the direction intersecting the rotating axis of the light detector.