Exposure device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorYosuke Kasuya
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Abstract
An exposure device includes: a substrate that includes a plate-shaped main body that extends in one direction, a plurality of light emitting elements that are mounted on one surface of the main body, and a heating element that is mounted on the other surface of the main body and generates heat in accordance with light emission of the light emitting element; a housing that extends in the one direction, has a frame shape in which a through hole is formed, and to an inside of the through hole of which the substrate is fixed so that a thickness direction of the main body is a penetrating direction of the through hole; and a first contact member that extends in the one direction, and is in contact with at least a portion of the heating element and the main body at a different position in the one direction.
Claims4
An exposure device comprising:
- a substrate that includes a plate-shaped main body that extends in one direction, a plurality of light emitting elements that are mounted on one surface of the main body, and a heating element that is mounted on the other surface of the main body and generates heat in accordance with light emission of the light emitting element;
- a housing that extends in the one direction, has a frame shape in which a through hole is formed, and to an inside of the through hole of which the substrate is fixed so that a thickness direction of the main body is a penetrating direction of the through hole;
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- a first contact member that extends in the one direction, and is in contact with at least a portion of the heating element and the main body at a different position in the one direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.