Scanner having a light beam incident position adjusting device

• US 7,158,269 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2004
• Issued: 01/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pentax Corporation (Hoya Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pentax Corporation (Hoya Corporation)
• Inventors: Morita, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Grant; Jerome
• Assistant Examiner(s): Safaipour; Houshang
• Application Number:
  US10/781,891
• Publication Number:
  US 20040165238A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,047 Days
• Field of Search: 358/481, 358/490, 358/474, 358/511, 359/196, 250/234
• US Class Current: 358/481
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/122 Control of the scanning speed of the polygonal mirror
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/127 Adaptive control of the scanning light beam, e.g. using the feedback from one or more detectors G02B27/0031 takes precedence

Abstract

A scanner is provided that has a light-beam emitter for emitting a light beam, a light-beam deflector for deflecting the light beam to scan a scanning surface, a photo-detector provided at a position outside an image-forming scanning range of the scanning surface to detect a scanning light beam before the scanning light beam starts generating a scanning line in the image-forming scanning range, a rotatable member located in front of an incident surface of the photo-detector and positioned in a recess formed on an outer surface of a housing. The rotatable member is rotatable about a rotational axis perpendicular to a plane defined by the scanning light beam by said deflector. The scanner also has an optical member provided on the rotatable member that allows the scanning light beam to pass therethrough to be incident upon the incident surface of the photo-detector, and a device for adjusting rotational position of said rotatable member about said rotational axis. A through hole through which the optical member is inserted in the housing is formed at the bottom of the recess, and the optical member is inserted into the housing through the through hole.

Claims

1. A scanner comprising:

a light-beam emitter for emitting a light beam;

a light-beam deflector for deflecting said light beam to scan a scanning surface;

a photo-detector provided at a position outside an image-forming scanning range of said scanning surface to detect a scanning light beam before said scanning light beam starts generating a scanning line in said image-forming scanning range;

a rotatable member located in front of an incident surface of said photo-detector and positioned in a recess formed on an outer surface of a housing, said rotatable member being rotatable about a rotational axis perpendicular to a plane defined by said scanning light beam by said deflector;

an optical, member that is provided on said rotatable member, said optical member allowing said scanning light beam to pass therethrough to be incident upon said incident surface of said photo-detector; and

a device for adjusting rotational, position of said rotatable member about said rotational axis;

wherein a through hole through which said optical member is inserted in said housing is formed at the bottom of said recess, and said optical member is inserted into said housing through said through hole.