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Laser printing apparatus with device for combining a plurality of optical beams provided with an integral-order wave plate

US4760407A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 4, 1987
Grant dateJul 26, 1988
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Expiry dateAug 4, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K15/1261
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A laser printing apparatus having a device for combining optically a plurality of laser lights which combines a plurality of laser lights and in which integral-order wave plates are provided respectively on the optical paths formed between a polarizing prism making part of the combined laser lights branch and sources of emission of said laser lights in a plurality, so that the quantity of said branching lights can be adjusted, and having a mechanism which adjusts and controls a distance between dots of the aforesaid combined output laser beams formed on a photosensitive drum for a laser printer, on the basis of detection outputs of the aforesaid branching lights.

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