Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090035020 | Linehead and Imaging Apparatus Incorporating the Same - The invention provides an optical write linehead comprising a plurality of light emitter devices in rows located in association with each of a plurality positive lenses lined up in array form and designed such that even when the surface of the linehead with light emitter devices lined up on it and the write surface thereof fluctuate in the optical axis direction, there is no variation from misalignments of light-emission dots. The linehead comprises a light emitter array | 02-05-2009 |
20090052943 | Line Head and Image Forming Apparatus Using the Same - A line head includes: a positive lens system having two lenses with positive refractive power; a lens array in which a plurality of the positive lens systems are arrayed in a first direction; a light emitter array in which a plurality of light-emitting elements are arrayed on an object side of the lens array so as to correspond to the one positive lens system; and an aperture plate that forms an aperture diaphragm at the position of an object-side focal point of the positive lens system. An object-side surface of an object-side lens of the positive lens system is positioned close to the object-side focal point. | 02-26-2009 |
20090066779 | Line Head and Image Forming Device Using the Same - A line head includes a lens array having a plurality of positive lens systems in a first direction. Each positive lens system has a pair of lenses with positive refractive power. A light emitter array disposed on an object side of the lens array has a plurality of light emitting elements disposed corresponding to the positive lens systems. An aperture plate forms an aperture stop on the object side of the pair of lenses. A focal distance f | 03-12-2009 |
20090086328 | Line Head and Image Forming Apparatus Using the Same - A line head includes: a positive lens system having two lenses with positive refractive power; an image-side lens array in which the image-side lens of the two lenses is arrayed in a plural number in first and second directions; an object-side lens array in which the object-side lens of the two lenses is arrayed in a plural number in the first and second directions; a light emitter array in which a plurality of light-emitting elements are arrayed on an object side of the positive lens system for the one positive lens system; and an aperture plate that forms an aperture diaphragm disposed on the object side of the positive lens system so that an image side is telecentric or approximately telecentric. Assuming that the row number of lenses arrayed in the second direction of the image-side lens array is m, a gap between effective regions of the two image-side lenses adjacent to each other in the first direction is α, an image-side angle of aperture (half angle) of the positive lens system is θ | 04-02-2009 |
20090091611 | Line Head and Image Forming Apparatus Using the Same - A line head includes: a positive lens system having two lenses with positive refractive power; an image-side lens array in which the image-side lens of the two lenses is arrayed in a plural number in first and second directions; an object-side lens array in which the object-side lens of the two lenses is arrayed in a plural number in the first and second directions; a light emitter array in which a plurality of light-emitting elements are arrayed on an object side of the positive lens system for the one positive lens system; and an aperture plate that forms an aperture diaphragm, the aperture plate being disposed between the image-side lens array and the object-side lens array so that an image side is telecentric or approximately telecentric. Assuming that the row number of lenses arrayed in the second direction of the image-side lens array is m, a gap between effective regions of the two image-side lenses adjacent to each other in the first direction is α, an image-side angle of aperture (half angle) of the positive lens system is θ | 04-09-2009 |
20090185277 | Exposure Head and an Image Forming Apparatus - An exposure head, includes: a lens array that includes a light transmissive substrate whose length in a first direction is greater than a length thereof in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a first lens that is arranged on the light transmissive substrate, and a second lens that is arranged on the light transmissive substrate at the first direction of the first lens, the first lens and the second lens being connected in the first direction; and a head substrate that is provided with a first light emitting element that emits a light toward the first lens and a second light emitting element that emits a light toward the second lens. | 07-23-2009 |
20090185287 | Line Head and an Image Forming Apparatus - A line head includes: a first lens formed from a resin and on a glass substrate; and a light emitting element substrate that has light emitting elements arranged in a first direction, wherein a cross section of the first lens taken in the first direction and including an optical axis of the first lens has a configuration wherein a curvature of the first lens at the optical axis has a smaller absolute value than a curvature of an outer peripheral portion of the first lens. | 07-23-2009 |
20090185828 | Lens Array, Exposure Head, and Image Forming Apparatus - A lens array includes a light-transmissive substrate that satisfies the condition W | 07-23-2009 |
20090189970 | Lens Array, Exposure Head, and Image Forming Apparatus - An exposure head includes: a lens array in which lenses are disposed in a first direction; and a light-emitting element substrate on which light-emitting elements that emit light to be focused by the lenses are disposed. Length L | 07-30-2009 |
20090190228 | Lens Array, an Exposure Head and an Image Forming Apparatus - An exposure head, includes: a lens array that includes lenses that are arranged in a first direction and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a light emitting element substrate that is provided with light emitting elements that emit lights to be imaged by the lenses, wherein a relationship defined by a following formula: 107-30-2009 | |
20090195634 | Lens Array for a Line Head, a Line Head and an Image Forming Apparatus - A line head, includes: a head substrate that includes a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element; and a lens array that includes a first positive lens that images a light emitted from the first light emitting element on a specified plane and has a lens surface of a free-form surface, and a second positive lens that images a light emitted from the second light emitting element on the specified plane and has a lens surface of a free-form surface, each of the lens surfaces of the first and the second positive lenses having focal points with different focal lengths. | 08-06-2009 |
20090237485 | Exposure Head and an Image Forming Apparatus - An exposure head, includes: a substrate that is provided with a first light emitting element, a second light emitting element that is arranged at one side of the first light emitting element in a first direction and a third light emitting element that is arranged at the one side of the second light emitting element in the first direction, the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element being arranged at a first distance from each other in the first direction, the second light emitting element and the third light emitting element being arranged at a second distance, which is different from the first distance, from each other in the first direction; and an imaging optical system that images light from the first, the second and the third light emitting elements. | 09-24-2009 |
20100080594 | Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming Method - An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image carrier; and an exposure head having light-emitting elements configured to emit light beams and form beam spots on the latent image carrier and image forming optical systems configured to form images of light beams emitted from the light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction and form group of beam spots on the latent image carrier, wherein the different image forming optical systems form the group of beam spots in an overlapped manner in the first direction, and the light-emitting elements include the light-emitting elements which define a first spot center distance Dsp | 04-01-2010 |
20100183336 | Line Head and Image Forming Apparatus - An optical system of a line head images light emitted from first and second light emitting elements and includes a rotationally symmetric lens having a lens face. A first region of the lens face includes an intersection point of the lens face with the symmetry axis of the lens, and a second region surrounding a periphery of the first region. The shape of a boundary portion between the first and second regions has the relationship 0.5ω<Δθ, wherein ω is a first direction angle that a first chief ray emitted by the first light emitting element makes with a second chief ray emitted by the second light emitting element, and Δθ is an angle that a tangent line to the first region at the boundary portion makes with a tangent line to the second region at the boundary portion in a first direction cross-section including the symmetry axis. | 07-22-2010 |
20100183338 | Line Head and Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier on which a latent image is formed; and a line head. The line head includes light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; an aperture diaphragm; and an optical system that images light emitted from the light-emitting elements on a latent image carrier. The aperture diaphragm and the optical system are arranged in a second direction that is orthogonal to or substantially orthogonal to the first direction; and among the lenses included in the optical system, a lens located at the position closest to the aperture diaphragm is a multifocal lens. | 07-22-2010 |
20100195164 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus that includes a latent image carrier on which a latent image is formed, an exposure head that has a first imaging optical system, first light emitting elements that emit light to be imaged by the first imaging optical system, a second imaging optical system, and second light emitting elements that emit light to be imaged by the second imaging optical system and which form the latent image on the latent image carrier at a position adjacent to the first light emitting elements in a first direction, an image processor that has an input unit to which image data are input, and a data giving unit that gives correction data to correct positional slippage of the latent image formed on the latent image carrier to the input image data. | 08-05-2010 |
20100202800 | Line Head and Image Forming Apparatus - A line head includes light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; and an optical system that images light emitted from the light-emitting elements on a latent image carrier. The optical system including first and second lens surfaces having refractive power, the second lens surface being provided on a side of the first lens surface opposite to the light-emitting elements. In cross sections in the first and second directions including an optical axis of the optical system, the curvatures of the first and second lens surfaces satisfy the following relationships: |C | 08-12-2010 |
20100208027 | Line Head and Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a line head that performs exposure on a latent image carrier to form a latent image. The line head includes first and second light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; and an optical system that images light emitted from the first and second light-emitting elements. When a difference between the maximum and minimum values of a longitudinal aberration of the optical system is G, a distance in the first direction between centers of geometry of the first and second light-emitting elements is P | 08-19-2010 |
20100214389 | Line Head and Image Forming Apparatus - A line head includes first to third light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; and an optical system that forms images by light emitted from the first to third light-emitting elements on an imaging surface to form images of the light-emitting elements, in which the first light-emitting element is arranged between the second light-emitting element and the third light-emitting element in the first direction; the optical system has a first lens surface that has refractive power and is arranged so as to satisfy a relation of H>0.5D, where H is a distance in the first direction between the geometrical centers of the images of the second and third light-emitting elements, and D is the maximum width in the first direction of a light passing region of the first lens surface through which light emitted from the second and third light-emitting elements passes; and, light emitted from the first and second light-emitting elements do not overlap with each other on a cross section of the first lens surface taken along the first direction so as to include an optical axis of the optical system. | 08-26-2010 |
20100321462 | EXPOSURE HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier having a curvature in a first direction; and an exposure head including a first light emitting element that emits a light having a wavelength λ | 12-23-2010 |
20100321658 | EXPOSURE HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier; and an exposure head including a light emitting element that emits a light having a first wavelength and a light having a second wavelength, and an optical system that focuses the light having the first wavelength at a first imaging position and focuses the light having the second wavelength at a second imaging position that is different from the first imaging position with respect to the first direction, the optical system having an optical axis extending in the first direction, wherein a surface of the image carrier is located between the first imaging position and the second imaging position. | 12-23-2010 |
20110043593 | Lens Array, An Exposure Head and an Image Forming Apparatus - An exposure head, includes: a lens array that includes lenses that are arranged in a first direction and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a light emitting element substrate that is provided with light emitting elements that emit lights to be imaged by the lenses, wherein a relationship defined by a following formula: 102-24-2011 | |