Invention Grant
US08746948B2 Light guide, document illuminating device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus
有权
导光板,文件照明装置,图像读取装置和图像形成装置
- Patent Title: Light guide, document illuminating device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 导光板,文件照明装置,图像读取装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13456864Application Date: 2012-04-26
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Publication No.: US08746948B2Publication Date: 2014-06-10
- Inventor: Masatoshi Ishida
- Applicant: Masatoshi Ishida
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2011-119418 20110527
- Main IPC: H04N1/04
- IPC: H04N1/04 ; H04N1/00

Abstract:
A light guide for guiding light from multiple point sources arranged in a first direction (Y1) on a light source board includes a supporting unit including multiple supporting pieces provided to the light source board, arranged at regular intervals in the first direction (Y1), and a light guiding body continuous with the multiple supporting pieces and disposed downstream from the multiple point sources in a light emission direction (L). The light guiding body includes an incident surface, a light emission surface, multiple support ranges in which the supporting pieces are provided, and multiple light transmission ranges adjacent to the support ranges, respectively, in the first direction (Y1), to cause the light to exit the guiding body partly, and the multiple support ranges and the multiple light transmission ranges have substantially the same length in a second direction (X) perpendicular to the first direction (Y1).
Public/Granted literature
- US20120300271A1 LIGHT GUIDE, DOCUMENT ILLUMINATING DEVICE, IMAGE READING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-11-29
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