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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2012
Tomomi Ishimi, Shizuoka, JP;
Shinya Kawahara, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiaki Asai, Shizuoka, JP;
Yoshihiko Hotta, Shizuoka, JP;
Tomomi Ishimi, Shizuoka, JP;
Shinya Kawahara, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiaki Asai, Shizuoka, JP;
Yoshihiko Hotta, Shizuoka, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for uniformly erasing an image recorded on a thermo-reversible recording medium. The image erasing apparatus includes an LD array, which emits a laser light whose cross section has a line shape; optics which include at least one cylindrical lens which converts, into a converging light which converges in a width direction, a line-shaped laser light which is emitted from the LD array and emits the converging light; and a mono-axial galvano mirror which deflects the laser light emitted from the optics in the width direction to scan the deflected laser light onto the thermo-reversible recording medium.