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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:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2011
Applicants:
Ryuta Koizumi, Nagano, JP;
Takeshi Sowa, Nagano, JP;
Ken Ikuma, Nagano, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 15/14 (2006.01); B41J 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An exposure head includes a light emitting element and a imaging optical system having a first region and a second region and contrived such that a slope of a long dimension of a spot diagram formed by light emitted from the light emitting element that passes through the first region is different from a slope of a long dimension of a spot diagram formed by light emitted from the light emitting element that passes through the second region.