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Optically controlled image forming apparatus and method

US6151057A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 28, 1996
Grant dateNov 21, 2000
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Expiry dateOct 28, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2201/04767
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image forming apparatus and method that provides a laser beam oscillator that provides a laser beam corresponding to an original image, reflects/scans the laser beam, transmits a first part of said laser beam to a photoconductive element to write thereupon an image indicative of the original image, accepts a second part of the laser beam as to control and synchronize a write timing sequence of the laser beam on the image carrying element.

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