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US 10,852,656 B2Granted
Optical deflector, optical scanning device including optical deflector, and image forming apparatus including optical scanning device
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorShingo Yoshida
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Abstract
An optical deflector is configured such that a distance between a circumscribed circle of a rotary polyhedron centered on an axis of the rotary polyhedron and an inner peripheral surface of a peripheral wall of a cover member in a radial direction of the rotary polyhedron is largest at both of circumferential ends of an opening of the cover member.
Claims9
An optical deflector comprising:
- a rotary polyhedron;
- and
- a cover member covering the rotary polyhedron,
- wherein the cover member has an opening facing a peripheral surface of the rotary polyhedron,
- wherein the optical deflector is configured such that a light beam emitted from a light source is applied to the peripheral surface of the rotary polyhedron through the opening of the cover member and the rotary polyhedron deflects the light beam while rotating about an axis thereof to scan the light beam on an object to be irradiated through the opening,
- wherein a distance between a circumscribed circle of the rotary polyhedron centered on the axis of the rotary polyhedron and an inner peripheral surface of a peripheral wall of the cover member in a radial direction of the rotary polyhedron is largest at both of circumferential ends of the opening,
- wherein the peripheral wall of the cover member has a circular shape as viewed in an axial direction of the rotary polyhedron, and
- wherein an axis of the peripheral wall of the cover member is eccentric with respect to the rotary polyhedron such that the distance is largest at both of the circumferential ends of the opening.
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An optical deflector comprising:
- a rotary polyhedron;
- and
- a cover member covering the rotary polyhedron,
- wherein the cover member has an opening facing a peripheral surface of the rotary polyhedron,
- wherein the optical deflector is configured such that a light beam emitted from a light source is applied to the peripheral surface of the rotary polyhedron through the opening of the cover member and the rotary polyhedron deflects the light beam while rotating about an axis thereof to scan the light beam on an object to be irradiated through the opening,
- wherein a distance between a circumscribed circle of the rotary polyhedron centered on the axis of the rotary polyhedron and an inner peripheral surface of a peripheral wall of the cover member in a radial direction of the rotary polyhedron is largest at both of circumferential ends of the opening,
- wherein the peripheral wall of the cover member comprises an arcuate wall, a first joined wall, and a second joined wall, the arcuate wall being formed to have an arc shape coaxial with the rotary polyhedron as viewed in an axial direction of the rotary polyhedron, the first joined wall and the second joined wall being respectively joined to circumferential ends of the arcuate wall,
- wherein a distal end of the first joined wall and a distal end of the second joined wall respectively constitute the circumferential ends of the opening,
- wherein the first joined wall and the second joined wall respectively extend from the circumferential ends of the arcuate wall toward a radial outside of an inscribed circle of the arcuate wall such that the distance is largest at both of the circumferential ends of the opening, and
- wherein an angle θ2 formed by lines connecting each of the circumferential ends of the arcuate wall to the axis of the rotary polyhedron as viewed in the axial direction of the rotary polyhedron satisfies Equations (1) and (2) below:
- θ2>((360°/a number of surfaces of the rotary polyhedron)×n)×0.83 (1)
- θ2<((360°/the number of surfaces of the rotary polyhedron)×n)×1.17 (2),
- where n is a natural number less than the number of surfaces of the rotary polyhedron.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.