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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7443412 | Exposure apparatus adopting organic light-emitting diode array as light source An exposure apparatus adopting an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) array as a light-emitting source is provided. The apparatus illuminates light beams emitted from a printing head disposed along the lengthwise direction of a photosensitive body to form an electro... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443415 | Optical beam scanning device and image forming apparatus having window for polygon mirror cover An optical beam scanning device includes a light deflecting device with at least a polygon mirror portion of which is covered by a cover having a cover window portion for keeping a passage for an entering/emitting light, a pre-deflection optical system for entering ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439999 | Optical scanning apparatus and image-forming apparatus using the same At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an optical scanning apparatus which includes a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser including a plurality of light-emitting portions that are spaced from each other in at least a sub-scanning direction, a first opti... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436425 | Optical writing apparatus and image forming apparatus An optical writing apparatus includes a deflecting part having a deflection plane for deflecting a plurality of light beams, a synchronization detection mirror for reflecting the plurality of light beams from the deflecting part, a synchronization detection part for... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432947 | Apparatus and method of electrophotographic printing employing diffusive light sources and apparatus and method of scanning a document An electrophotographic imaging system and method employs an array of diffusive light sources, a first lens disposed to receive light emitted from two or more of the light sources of the array, an aperture plate disposed to receive light from the first lens, and a se... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7414645 | Image forming apparatus with scanning lens An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member and a scanning lens. The photosensitive member bears a latent image thereon and defines a main scanning direction. The scanning lens transmits a light beam scanningly deflected in the main scanning directio... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7371287 | Substrate handling system A substrate handling system and method in which an air chuck produces a film of air between the substrate and the air chuck, a magnetic chuck attracts the substrate to the air chuck, and an actuator subsystem moves the magnetic chuck closer to and away from the air ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7358982 | Imaging device for a printing press An imaging device (10) for a printing form (12), in particular in a printing unit (82) of a printing press (84), having at least one light source (14) and an imaging optics (18) for projecting the at least one light source (... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355614 | Filling an area of an image marked on a material with a laser A system converts graphic images, such as those created by graphics applications, to a format that can be efficiently printed on a material by a laser printing system. An image can be converted to a set of locations by defining progressively smaller contours of the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355940 | Optical disk apparatus and waiting method thereof An optical disk apparatus including a waiting position determining circuit which detects physical properties of each region in an optical disk after recording or reproducing processing is finished and decides a waiting position of an optical head according to the de... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342732 | Optical mount An optical mount (1) for optical component (2) which has a edge contour (4) relative to extending radially optical axis (A), includes a rigid optical support (3) having an axially oriented stop edge (5), which is suitable for an ax... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339603 | Exposure device for an electrophotographic apparatus An exposure device for an electrophotographic apparatus including one or more laser light sources which expose an image carrier in accordance with a print information signal supplied from an external information processing apparatus, a resolution switching lens, and... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336566 | Method and apparatus for track type identification, and method of track jump The track jumping of a scanner on optical storage media in which information items are stored on groove and land tracks or which have not yet been written to is intended to be made possible in a reliable manner. For this purpose, firstly a fictitious track type is d... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7321380 | Laser emitter and laser scanning device A laser emitter including: a first lens barrel portion for holding a first laser element; a second lens barrel portion for holding a second laser element whose optical axis is slanted with respect to an optical axis of the first lens barrel portion, the second lens ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317470 | Imaging device for a printing form and method for arranging optical components in the imaging device An imaging device (10) for a printing form (12), has at least one first and one second laser diode bar (14, 16), the laser diodes (18) on the laser diode bars (14, 16) being disposed in lines. The device includes a first and a seco... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316355 | System and method for optimizing range of an electronic article surveillance system An electronic article surveillance (EAS) system including: an EAS device and an EAS range finder system for providing indication as to when the EAS device is within an operational distance from the EAS tag. The system may include a barcode scanner for providing an o... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7304777 | Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same An overfilled optical scanning apparatus has an incidence optical system for converging a light beam onto a deflection surface of a light deflector which has a plurality of deflection surfaces, and an imaging optical system for imaging the deflected light beam onto ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301554 | Light scanning device, scanning line adjusting method, scanning line adjusting control method, image forming apparatus, and image forming method A light scanning device includes an optical element that images, on an image holding body, a light beam emitted from a light source. The light scanning device further includes a holding member that holds the optical element, and scanning line curve correcting mechan... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295225 | Light source and light beam scanning unit Light source and light beam scanning units with reduced deviation of beam positions over time and ambient conditions, in use for image forming apparatuses. In the light source unit for emanating light beams, including a plurality of LEDs and coupling lenses each cor... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292376 | Device for digitally generating images The invention relates to a device for digitally generating images on photosensitive material comprising a light source, a liquid crystal display (LCD) unit and imaging optics. According to the invention, the LCD unit and the imaging optics are mounted in the same le... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289279 | Lithographic objective having a first lens group including only lenses having a positive refractive power A projection objective includes a first lens group (G1) of positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) of negative refractive power and at least one further lens group of positive refractive power in which a diaphragm is mounted. The first lens... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286153 | Three-dimensional recording and reproducing apparatus In a three-dimensional recording and reproducing apparatus having a recording medium including a plurality of recording layers stacked on a substrate and an optical system for converging a light irradiated from the substrate side on each of the plurality of recordin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286155 | Optical engine using one-dimensional MEMS device In one embodiment disclosed, an optical engine includes a light modulator coupled to illumination optics and imaging optics. The light modulator may be located at about an object plane. The imaging optics may include a scanner and a spatial filter located at about a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286156 | Light source device for scanning-exposure and method and apparatus for scanning-exposure A blue laser light source is a semiconductor laser having a sapphire substrate that is transparent to a wavelength of a blue laser beam emitted from an active layer. A condenser lens converges the blue laser beam at a focal point where a modulator is placed. A slit ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283276 | Method and system for producing proof data for package printing A method for producing proof data for a blank of a package in an electronic reproduction system for packages includes linking CAD data from a CAD system and graphic data from a graphic system to form blank data, and using the blank data in a sheet assembly system to... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7276274 | Optical recording medium and method for recording and reproducing data An optical recording medium includes a substrate, a light transmission layer and a plurality of recording layers between the substrate and the light transmission layer and capable of recording data in the plurality of recording layers and reproducing data recorded i... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271823 | Optical scanner and image forming apparatus An optical scanner has a deflector, a coupling lens, a cylindrical lens, a plate through which light to and from the deflector pass, and an optical system which condenses the light deflected on a surface to be scanned. Bundles of light beams incident on the deflecto... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268948 | Optical element and optical scanning device using the same To obtain an optical element capable of obtaining uniform anti reflection characteristics over the whole optical surface having a finite curvature of the optical element, a plurality of convex optical pieces having an anti reflection function are provided on a surfa... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265774 | Collimating lens of beam scanning apparatus A beam scanning apparatus having a collimating lens in which a beam emitted from a light source is transformed into at least one of a convergent beam and a parallel beam with respect to an optical axis and outputted towards a slit. The collimating lens being one she... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256917 | Two-dimensional scanning apparatus and scanning type image displaying apparatus using the same A two-dimensional scanning apparatus has light source means, deflecting means for deflecting a beam emitted from the light source means in a two-dimensional direction, and scanning optical means for directing the beam deflected by the deflecting means onto a surface... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252237 | Code reader A scanner, especially one for the detection of one- and/or two-dimensional codes with a reception optics, projects the image of a reading line onto a linear arrangement of photoreceivers. An illumination arrangement for linearly illuminating an entire reading line h... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253827 | Multi-beam scanning apparatus Disclosed in a multi-beam optical scanning apparatus which includes a light source unit including a plurality of radiation points disposed with being spaced from each other in a main scanning direction, and a deflecting unit for deflecting a plurality of light beams... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251067 | Optical scanning apparatus The present invention has as its object to provide a compact optical scanning apparatus of high performance. So, in the present invention, an optical scanning apparatus comprised of two or more reflecting mirrors is of a construction in which the optical characteris... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250961 | Light beam scanning method and apparatus compensating for defects The light beam scanning method and apparatus perform light beam scanning of a cylindrical internal surface scanning type, a cylindrical external surface scanning type, and a plane scanning type, where when a sheet-like object to be scanned is scanned by a light beam... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248279 | Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same Disclosed is an optical scanning device which includes a light source device, a deflecting system for deflecting a light beam emitted from the light source device, and a scanning optical system for scanning a surface to be scanned, with the light beam deflected by t... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245311 | Image forming apparatus A photosensitive body has a photosensitive layer. An optical scanning device has a deflector deflecting a light flux emitted from a light source, and scans the surface of the photosensitive body by the thus-deflected light flux. A dot is formed at a center between a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236281 | Optical scanner and image forming apparatus An optical scanner includes a single deflector to optically scan a plurality of target surfaces to be scanned. The deflector has a common rotary axis for deflecting reflective surfaces and is shared by all the beams from a plurality of light sources. The optical sca... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227563 | Image writing apparatus and color image forming apparatus The present invention provides a color image forming apparatus forming an image by using a plurality of image carriers, wherein at least one lens having identical optical characteristics and forming individual scanning optical systems which scan the individual image... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220256 | Laser system and method for treatment of biological tissues A system for and method of performing laser assisted surgery is disclosed. Laser radiation is preferably delivered to a target area of tissue using a Er:YAG laser source. The laser radiation is delivered to the target area in bursts of laser radiation comprising set... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218467 | Method and apparatus for optimizing write properties of magnetic head and defining magnetic head A method and apparatus for optimizing write properties of a magnetic head capable of performing read/write functions on a medium including defining the magnetic head as a normal head, a low temperature weak write (WW) head, or a high temperature WW head, and optimiz... | 05/15/2007 |
