B41J2/385

LIGHT SCANNING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND HOUSING

A light scanning apparatus including: a bottom surface on which a rotary polygon mirror is mounted; a housing including a bottom surface on which the rotary polygon mirror is mounted and a side wall portion on which a first light source and a second light source are mounted, the side wall portion standing from the bottom surface; and a wall portion standing from the bottom surface, the wall portion being configured to block a first light beam emitted from the first light source and reflected by an inner wall of a first holder holding the first light source and a second light beam emitted from the second light source and reflected by an inner wall of the second holder holding the second light source.

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT SCANNING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

A method of manufacturing a light scanning apparatus, including: forming an optical box having a plurality of protrusions arranged along a longitudinal direction of a reflection mirror and provided at positions corresponding to one end side and the other end side of the reflection mirror in the longitudinal direction, respectively; processing protrusions except protrusions that are used for supporting the reflection mirror so that the protrusions except the protrusions that are used for supporting the reflection mirror on the one end side and on the other end side of the reflection mirror are out of contact with the reflection mirror; placing the reflection mirror on the protrusions that have not been processed in the processing; and fixing the reflection mirror, which has been placed on the protrusions that have not been processed in the placing, to the optical box.

LIGHT SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
20180234565 · 2018-08-16 ·

A light scanning apparatus including: a first holder attached to a housing and configured to hold a first laser light source; a second holder attached to the housing and configured to hold a second laser light source; and a lens to which the laser lights are first incident, wherein the first holder and the second holder are attached to the housing in mutually different positions in a rotation axis direction of a rotary polygon mirror and in an optical axis direction of the lens, so that a first incident light path from the first laser light source to the rotary polygon mirror is placed between a second incident light path from the second laser light source to the rotary polygon mirror and the lens, and the first holder and the second holder overlap one another in the rotation axis direction.

CASING OF A LIGHT SCANNING APPARATUS, LIGHT SCANNING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

Provided is a casing of a light scanning apparatus accommodating a rotary polygon mirror and an optical member, the casing including: first seat surfaces arranged on a bottom surface of the casing to mount a first deflection portion that includes a first rotary polygon mirror, a first motor, and a first board on which the first rotary polygon mirror and the first motor are fixed; and second seat surfaces arranged on the bottom surface to mount a second deflection portion that includes a second rotary polygon mirror, a second motor having a maximum number of revolutions higher than that of the first motor, a second board on which the second rotary polygon mirror and the second motor are fixed, and a mounting portion supporting the second board, wherein at least one of the second seat surfaces is arranged outside of a region formed by connecting the first seat surfaces.

IMAGE WRITING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PITCH UNEVENNESS SUPPRESSING METHOD
20180231911 · 2018-08-16 ·

Provided is an image writing device including a deflector having deflective reflection surfaces for deflecting light flux emitted from a light source and a scanning imaging optical system that condenses the light flux as a light spot on a scanned surface of a latent image carrier, and performing optical scanning on the scanned surface at a constant speed, the image writing device further including: a surface detector that detects a deflective reflection surface that deflects the light flux; a storage that prestores a beam irradiation position in a sub scanning direction corresponding to each main image height on each of the deflective reflection surfaces; and a hardware processor that controls, on the basis of a beam irradiation position in the sub scanning direction corresponding to each main image height on the deflective reflection surface a light quantity of the light flux to be irradiated to the beam irradiation position.

LIGHT-EMITTING COMPONENT, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
20180233533 · 2018-08-16 · ·

A light-emitting component includes a light-emitting element, a thyristor, and a light-absorbing layer. The thyristor includes a semiconductor layer having a bandgap energy smaller than or equal to a bandgap energy equivalent to a wavelength of light emitted by the light-emitting element. The thyristor causes the light-emitting element to emit light or causes an amount of light emitted by the light-emitting element to increase, upon entering an on-state. The light-absorbing layer is disposed between the light-emitting element and the thyristor such that the light-emitting element and the thyristor are stacked. The light-absorbing layer absorbs the light emitted by the light-emitting element.

LAYERED STRUCTURE, LIGHT-EMITTING COMPONENT, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
20180233534 · 2018-08-16 · ·

A layered structure includes a thyristor and a light-emitting element. The thyristor at least includes four layers. The four layers are an anode layer, a first gate layer, a second gate layer, and a cathode layer arranged in this order. The light-emitting element is disposed such that the light-emitting element and the thyristor are connected in series. The thyristor includes a semiconductor layer having a bandgap energy smaller than bandgap energies of the four layers.

IMAGE CORRECTION DEVICE
20180231909 · 2018-08-16 ·

According to one embodiment, there is provided an image correction device including a PWM control unit configured to acquire predefined correction information corresponding to an image forming target line among a plurality of lines forming image data from an SRAM, adjust a timing for forming an image for the image forming target line on the basis of the acquired correction information, and form an image for the image forming target line according to the adjusted timing.

Head unit
10040287 · 2018-08-07 · ·

Disclosed is a head unit including: a plurality of ejecting units that eject liquids; a driving IC that drives the plurality of ejecting units; a first substrate; a second substrate; a first electrode; and a second electrode, the first electrode electrically connects the first wiring and the third wiring with each other, the second electrode electrically connects the second wiring and the third wiring with each other, the driving IC is overlapped with the first substrate in plan view of the first substrate, and the signal from the second substrate is transmitted from the second substrate in order of the first terminal, the first wiring, the first electrode, the third wiring, the second electrode, and the second wiring.

Head unit
10040286 · 2018-08-07 · ·

Disclosed a head unit including: a plurality of ejecting units that eject liquids; a driving IC that drives the plurality of ejecting units; a substrate; a first electrode group that includes a plurality of electrodes connected to the driving IC and the substrate; and a second electrode group that includes a plurality of electrodes connected to the driving IC and the substrate, in which the driving IC is a rectangular shape in plan view.