Exposure head, an image forming apparatus and an image forming method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsNozomu Inoue, Yujiro Nomura
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Abstract
An exposure head, includes: imaging optical systems which are arranged in a first direction; light emitting elements which are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to or substantially orthogonal to the first direction and emit lights to be imaged by the imaging optical systems; a first wiring which is connected with the light emitting element located at a first side in the second direction; and a second wiring which is connected with the light emitting element located at a second side in the second direction.
Claims15
An exposure head, comprising:
- imaging optical systems which are arranged in a first direction;
- light emitting elements which are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and emit lights to be imaged by the imaging optical systems;
- a first wiring which is connected with the light emitting element located at a first side in the second direction;
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- a second wiring which is connected with the light emitting element located at a second side in the second direction.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an exposure head which includes
- imaging optical systems which are arranged in a first direction,
- light emitting elements which are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and emit lights to be imaged by the imaging optical systems,
- a first wiring which is connected with the light emitting element located at a first side in the second direction, and
- a second wiring which is connected with the light emitting element located at a second side in the second direction;
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- a latent image carrier which carries a latent image formed by the exposure head.
An image forming method, comprising:
- forming a latent image on a latent image carrier by an exposure head which includes imaging optical systems which are arranged in a first direction, light emitting elements which are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and emit lights to be imaged by the imaging optical systems, a first wiring which is connected with the light emitting element located at a first side in the second direction, and a second wiring which is connected with the light emitting element located at a second side in the second direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.