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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184140 | 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 ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179415 | Exposure head and image forming apparatus An exposure head includes: a group of light emitting elements in which light emitting elements are arranged in a first direction; a light emitting element substrate in which the group of light emitting elements is arranged in the first direction and in a second dire... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179414 | Surface-emitting laser array, optical scanning device, and image forming device A surface-emitting laser array includes a plurality of light emitting parts arranged in a two-dimensional formation having two orthogonal directions. When the plurality of light emitting parts are orthogonally projected on a virtual line parallel to one of the two o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169456 | Print head and image forming apparatus employing the same Disclosed are a print head and an image forming apparatus employing the same. The print head, which irradiates light to multiple locations of a photosensitive medium to form pixels of electrostatic latent image, includes an array of light sources corresponding to th... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8130253 | Composite semiconductor device, print head and image forming apparatus A composite semiconductor device is formed of a semiconductor wafer having a plurality of device-forming areas in which semiconductor elements are formed and dicing areas defined between the device-forming areas, and is formed by dicing the semiconductor wafer at th... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8098271 | Exposure device, light-emitting device, image forming apparatus and failure diagnosing method The exposure device includes: a light output device outputting light for exposing a charged image carrier, and including light-emitting elements caused to emit light or not through a control using a light-emission signal, switch elements provided corresponding to th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8089499 | 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... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089498 | Surface-emission laser array, optical scanning apparatus apparatus and image forming apparatus A surface-emission laser array comprises a plurality of surface-emission laser diode elements arranged in the form of a two-dimensional array, wherein a plurality of straight lines drawn perpendicularly to a straight line extending in a first direction from respecti... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8035676 | Surface emitting laser element, surface emitting laser array, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus In a surface emitting laser element, on a substrate whose normal direction of a principal surface is inclined, a resonator structural body including an active layer, and a lower semiconductor DBR and an upper semiconductor DBR sandwiching the resonator structural bo... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8022975 | Line head and image forming apparatus using the same A line head includes a positive lens system having two lenses, image-side and object-side lens arrays, a light emitter array on an object side of the positive lens system, and an aperture plate that forms an aperture diaphragm. Where the row number of lenses arrayed... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7999838 | Line head, image forming apparatus incorporating the same, and method of adjusting position of the same In a line head, a plurality of light emitters are arrayed on a substrate in a first direction. Each of the light emitters is operable to emit a light beam. In a rod lens array, a plurality of rod lenses are arrayed in the first direction, and each of the rod lenses ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995085 | Line head, and an image forming apparatus using the line head A line head, includes: a plurality of first substrates each of which includes a plurality of light emitting elements which emit light beams, a second substrate to which the plurality of first substrates are bonded, and an optical system which includes a plurality of... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995084 | Line head and an image forming apparatus using the line head A line head, includes: a plurality of luminous elements grouped into a plurality of luminous element groups; and a lens array which includes a plurality of lenses each of which faces the luminous element group, focuses light beams emitted from the luminous element g... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990408 | Exposing device and image forming apparatus including the same An exposing device includes a light-emitting element array including plural light-emitting elements disposed in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to or substantially orthogonal to the first direction, a lens array including plural lenses that focus... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978213 | Focus adjustment method of LED print head and image forming apparatus A focus adjustment method of an LED print head of an image forming apparatus, including steps of: setting one end with respect to a longitudinal direction of the LED print head on a first position where a distance between the photoconductor and the LED print head be... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7956883 | Light-emitting device, driving circuit, driving method, and electronic apparatus A light-emitting device includes: light-emitting elements whose luminous energy is controlled according to a current value and a pulse width of a driving signal; a storage unit that stores first and second coefficients for every light-emitting element; a pulse width... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952600 | Image forming method for forming images of plural colors on an image carrier at once The invention provides an image forming apparatus and an image forming method capable of smoothly and reasonably conducting image formation in case of using a lens (lenses) of which optical magnification is minus. An image forming apparatus of the invention comprise... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7952601 | 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 L1 of the lenses in the first d... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7944462 | Exposure head, image forming unit, and image forming apparatus An exposure head includes a light emitting substrate having a transparent substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements that is disposed on one face of the transparent substrate, and one or a plurality of light detecting units that is disposed on the transparent... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7929006 | Nonparallel beam scanning apparatus for laser printer A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a laser array light source having plural laser light sources for generating plural laser beams; a photosensitive body having a surface on which an electrostatic latent image is formed by a surface potential changed by the... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924304 | Light-emitting element array, drive controlling device, recording head, and image forming device A light-emitting element array includes: a resistor connected at a first end to a driving unit; and a plurality of light-emitting elements, each of the plurality of light-emitting elements including a three-terminal switching element having a first terminal, a secon... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924303 | Line head controlling method and image forming method There is provided a method for controlling a line head including a focusing optical system, first light emitters, light from which being focused by the focusing optical system, second light emitters disposed next to the first light emitters in a first direction, lig... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924302 | Image recording apparatus with gas blowing device A laser light source has a plurality of semiconductor lasers arranged in a direction intersecting a primary scanning direction X. The semiconductor lasers are arranged in such a positional relationship that each semiconductor laser is located upstream, in the primar... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916163 | Exposure head, a method of controlling an exposure head and an image forming apparatus An exposure head, includes: an imaging optical system; a first light emitting element that emits a light which is to be focused by the imaging optical system; a second light emitting element that emits a light which is to be focused by the imaging optical system; a ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907162 | Exposure head, image forming device, and image forming method An exposure head includes a substrate having a plurality of light emitting element rows each having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a first direction, the light emitting element rows being arranged in a second direction perpendicular or substantia... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903136 | Scanning optical apparatus and image forming apparatus A scanning optical apparatus uses a light source pair that includes at least two light sources to scan a same scan line. The scanning optical apparatus includes: a first group of light sources which include a first light source of a light source pair and are lined u... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903135 | Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus for optimizing arrangement intervals in a main-scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction An optical scanning device which scans a scanned surface by a plurality of light beams in a main-scanning direction includes a light source having a plurality of light-emitting portions which emit the light beams, the light-emitting portions being two-dimensionally ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7880757 | Image forming device In an image forming device, a Light Emitting Diode (LED) head is attached to a slide member. The slide member includes a slidable base side member and a leading end side member which can move with respect to the base side member in a direction that is different from... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880758 | Image forming apparatus Described herein is a light source apparatus in which wasteful cost increases can be suppressed during the manufacture of various types of light source apparatuses and replacement of a broken light source can be performed at low cost, a recording apparatus using the... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880759 | Line head and image forming device using the same A line head includes a substrate, light emitting elements disposed on the substrate, drive circuits that drive the light emitting elements, and wirings that electrically connect the drive circuits and the light emitting elements. The light emitting elements form n (... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7834899 | Laser marking system A laser marking system comprises means for transmitting the laser-emitted light onto one or a plurality of points on a substrate, with means for displacing the substrate and laser light emitting source relative to one another, wherein the substrate is selected to be... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7808520 | Exposure device, light emitting diode head, and image forming apparatus An exposure device includes a light emitting element; and an eccentric cam for adjusting a distance between the light emitting element and a light receiving member. The eccentric cam includes a shaft portion and a cam portion arranged eccentrically relative to the s... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7791631 | Line head, an exposure method using the line head, an image forming apparatus, an image forming method and a line head adjustment method A line head, includes: an element substrate that includes luminous element groups as groups of a plurality of luminous elements; and a lens array that includes lenses which have an optical property of inverting or non-unity-magnification, focus light from the lumino... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787004 | Line head and image forming apparatus using the same A line head includes: a first substrate that includes light-emitting elements formed thereon; and a second substrate that includes focusing lenses, which are inverted optical systems, focusing light emitted from the light-emitting elements, and has a linear expansio... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782351 | Exposure head Provided is an exposure head, including: an array substrate having a plurality of organic EL elements arranged in an array on one face; and a plurality of circuit chips having a circuit for driving the organic EL element, and in which the forming face of the circuit... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7760224 | Exposure device and image forming apparatus with supporting member for focusing lens and light emitting element array An exposure device includes a substrate on which a light emitting element array is provided, a focusing lens that focuses light emitted by the light emitting element array, a supporting member that supports the substrate and the focusing lens. The supporting member ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7733363 | 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 l... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7719560 | Line head and imaging apparatus incorporating the same An optical write line head includes multiple rows of light emitter devices lined up corresponding to respective positive lenses located in array form, wherein even with a fluctuation of its write plane in an optical axis direction, there is none of variations result... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7714883 | Optical head, control method thereof, and image forming apparatus A control method for controlling an optical head having a plurality of light emitting devices, includes: dividing the plurality of light emitting devices into a plurality of blocks by grouping adjacent light emitting devices of the plurality of light emitting device... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7710444 | Image forming apparatus for forming a latent image on an image carrier An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that has an image carrier surface moving in a direction; a supporting member that faces the image carrier; a plurality of light emitting elements which are provided on a surface of the supporting member facing the... | 05/04/2010 |
