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Optical scanning system

US5005928A · kind A · utility

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26Claims
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Filing dateJul 7, 1989
Grant dateApr 9, 1991
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Expiry dateJul 7, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B27/0031
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An optical scanning system includes a light source, a coupling lens, a polygon mirror, an f.theta. lens, and a barrel toroidal lens. The barrel toroidal lens includes a barrel toroidal surface in which the radius of curvature thereof measured in the sub-scanning direction decreases with an increased distance from the optical axis of the barrel toroidal lens in a direction parallel to the main scanning direction.

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