Optical scanner

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5805324
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08560572

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In an optical scanner, a deflected light beam is reflected on a reflective image forming element and is converged as a light spot on a scanned face through an elongated lens to perform an optical scanning operation at an equal speed. The reflective image forming element has a reflecting face with rotation symmetry and converges a reflected light beam onto the scanned face in a main scan-corresponding direction. The elongated lens has a barrel type toroidal face as an incident face and has a normal toroidal face as a light emitting face. The elongated lens sets the scanned face and the forming position of a linear image to a substantially conjugate relation in a cross scan-corresponding direction in cooperation with the reflective image forming element. A conjugate magnification m.sub.0 in the conjugate relation of the reflective image forming element and the elongated lens with respect to an image height 0 of the light spot satisfies the following condition: 1>m.sub.0 >0.35.

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RICOH COMPANY LTDTOKYO

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Endou, Osamu Kawasaki, JP 25 281

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