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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2009
Kazunori Sakurai, Chino, JP;
Kazunori Sakurai, Chino, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An exposure head includes a light emitting substrate having a transparent substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements that is disposed on one face of the transparent substrate, and one or a plurality of light detecting units that is disposed on the transparent substrate and can detect light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements and propagating inside the transparent substrate. The light that is emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements and is transmitted through the transparent substrate is projected on an image carrier that faces the plurality of light emitting elements with the transparent substrate interposed therebetween so as to form a predetermined pattern on the image carrier. Inside the transparent substrate, a plurality of reformation points that diffusely reflects light propagating inside the transparent substrate is formed.