Image erasing apparatus and image erasing method
US9162480B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 28, 2012 |
| Grant date | Oct 20, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 28, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB41J2202/37
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A method for uniformly erasing an image recorded on a thermo-reversible recording medium. The image erasing apparatus includes an LD array, which emits a laser light whose cross section has a line shape; optics which include at least one cylindrical lens which converts, into a converging light which converges in a width direction, a line-shaped laser light which is emitted from the LD array and emits the converging light; and a mono-axial galvano mirror which deflects the laser light emitted from the optics in the width direction to scan the deflected laser light onto the thermo-reversible recording medium.
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