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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2011
Hyung-soo Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Hyung-soo Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A light scanning unit and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus employing the same. The light scanning unit includes an imaging optical system including, when a path of one of the light beams directed to one of the surfaces disposed relatively far from the deflector is referred to as a first light path and when a path of one of the light beams directed to one of the surfaces disposed relatively close to the deflector is referred to as a second light path, light paths in which both of a section of the second light path before a first change of the second light path and a section of the second light path after the first change of the second light path intersect a section of the first light path after a second change of the first light path.