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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Yamawaki, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, , JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image forming apparatus including a light scanning apparatus that emits a light flux to photosensitive surfaces of a plurality of photosensitive bodies arranged so that longitudinal directions are the same direction and that optically scans the plurality of photosensitive surfaces in the longitudinal direction, wherein a diameter of at least one of the plurality of photosensitive bodies is different from diameters of the other photosensitive bodies in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a sign ofand a sign ofare different, whereindenotes an incident angle of a light flux incident on a first photosensitive body with a smallest diameter among the plurality of photosensitive bodies, anddenotes an incident angle of a light flux incident on a second photosensitive body with a largest diameter, and a condition|>0 is satisfied.