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US 7,119,935 B2Granted
Light scanning unit for use in image forming apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasao Yamaguchi
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Abstract
A light scanning unit according to the present invention can decrease the degree of change when the quantity of light is changed on a photoconductor, thereby decreasing an image density difference occurred when forming an image.
Claims13
A light scanning unit comprising:
- a first optics which shapes the cross section of a luminous flux emitted from a light source to a predetennined shape;
- a light deflecting unit which has at least one reflecting surface, and deflects the luminous flux shaped by the first optics in a first direction, wherein the length of the luminous flux including a polarizing light along the first direction is wider than the length of the one reflecting surface along the first direction;
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- a second optics which forms an image of the luminous flux deflected in the first direction by the light deflecting unit on a scanning object, wherein
- the second optics to which the luminous flux is guided with the polarizing direction is not parallel to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image holder which is configured to hold an image corresponding to distribution of light by changing a predetermined electric potential when light is radiated in a state given with the electric potential;
- an exposing unit which has a light source capable of emitting light whose polarizing direction is linear and linearly polarized light is directed to a predetermined direction, a first optics which shapes the cross section of a luminous flux emitted from the light source to a predetermined shape, a light deflecting unit which has at least one reflecting surface and deflects the luminous flux shaped by the first optics in a first direction, a second optics which forms an image of the luminous flux deflected in the first direction by the light deflecting unit at a scanning object, wherein the light scanning unit in which the length of the luminous flux deflected by the light deflecting unit along the first direction is wider than the length of the one reflecting surface of the light deflecting unit along the first direction, and the polarizing direction of the luminous flux guided to an image forming optics is not parallel to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction;
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- a developing unit which makes the image held by the image holder visible.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.