Light scanning device
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorNobuoto Hattori
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Abstract
A light scanning device comprising a number of photoelectric conversion elements arranged beneath a light transmission member along the main scanning direction for a manuscript and spaced apart from each other by a given pitch and an opaque member disposed on the light transmission member and provided therein with openings each opposed to each of the photoelectric conversion elements.
Claims4
A light scanning device comprising a manuscript to be scanned, a light transmission member provided at that surface thereof which is opposed to said manuscript with an opaque member including a number of openings arranged along a main scanning direction of said manuscript and spaced apart from each other by a given pitch and provided at the other surface thereof with photoelectric conversion elements arranged in opposition to said openings, and a light supply lamp so arranged that said manuscript is illuminated at its scanning position with light rays emitted from said lamp and passed through said light transmission member and said openings provided in said opaque member, whereby the light rays reflected from the manuscript are incident through each of said openings provided in said opaque member and said light transmission member on said photoelectric conversion elements.
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