Image forming apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8693076
APP PUB NO 20110205609A1
SERIAL NO

13024382

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An image forming apparatus has a light output unit, a light scanner that has a light reflection part reflecting the light from the light output unit, rotates the light reflection part around two axes, and scans with the light reflected by the light reflection part, and a scanner rotating unit the rotates the light scanner around a predetermined axis line while keeping a relative positional relation between an intersection of the two rotation axes and the light output unit constant, and the light scanner has a movable unit including the light reflection part, four connection parts provided at intervals of 90 degrees in an outer circumference of the movable unit, each of the connection parts has a shaft part that connects the movable unit and the drive unit and independently and bendingly deforms each of the shaft parts, and thereby, the movable unit rotates around the two axes.

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  • SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Mizoguchi, Yasushi Suwa, JP 106 660

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