Image exposure head and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHidefumi Yoshida, Hayato Koyama
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Abstract
An exposure head for forming an image of a first resolution corresponding to an arrangement interval of a plurality of lower electrodes in a crossing direction or an image of a second resolution lower than the first resolution. A circuit portion includes an image data storage portion that is arranged on the substrate together with a plurality of lower electrodes and converts input image data into image data according to the resolution. By this, the same exposure head can be used for both high resolution images and low resolution images without degrading the image quality.
Claims7
An exposure head comprising:
- a plurality of light-emitting devices configured to expose a rotationally driven photosensitive member with light, wherein each of the plurality of light-emitting devices includes:
- a first substrate,
- a first electrode layer including a plurality of electrodes that are (i) two-dimensionally arranged in a rotational direction of the photosensitive member and in the a direction of a rotational axis of the photosensitive member, and which (ii) are separately formed on the first substrate,
- a light-emitting layer laminated on the first electrode layer and configured to emit light when a voltage is applied,
- a light-emitting region including a second electrode layer capable of transmitting light, the light-emitting region being provided on a side of the light-emitting layer that is opposite to a side on which the first substrate and the first electrode layer are provided, the light-emitting region corresponding to the plurality of electrodes of the first electrode layer;
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- a second substrate on which the first substrates of the plurality of light-emitting devices are arranged at positions different from each other in an intersecting direction intersecting the rotational direction of the photosensitive member, with odd-numbered first substrates and even-numbered first substrates being at different positions in the rotational direction of the photosensitive member, and with the first substrates of the plurality of light-emitting devices being arranged so as to have overlapping portions in which respective end portions of the first substrates adjacent to each other overlap each other in the intersecting direction,
- wherein a driving portion including a converting portion is provided on each of the first substrates together with the light-emitting region, the converting portion being configured to convert received image data into the image data corresponding to a resolution.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.