Abstract:
A method for adjusting a scanning module includes the steps of: providing a first fixing force to mount an adjustment assembly, to which an image sensor is attached, onto a base of the scanning module and loosely fixing the adjustment assembly to the base with a first fixing force; adjusting a relative position between the adjustment assembly and the base of the scanning module, and testing a first adjustment result until the first adjustment result is accepted; securing the adjustment assembly to the base of the scanning module with a second fixing force; and removing the first fixing force. The first and second fixing forces come from different sources.
Abstract:
In a multiplied pulse generation device, a detection signal is outputted every time a driven object is driven by a specific amount. An actual cycle indicating a time interval between the detection signal and a previous detection signal is measured. An estimated cycle is estimated based on at least past two actual cycles including the actual cycle measured. A multiplied pulse is sequentially generated in such a manner that a multiplied cycle indicating a time interval per which the multiplied pulse is generated is sequentially changed according to an amount of change from the actual cycle to the estimated cycle.
Abstract:
A frequency modulation device for use in an image forming apparatus. The image formation apparatus includes an image carrier and a laser device for scanning the image carrier along a plurality of scan lines. Each scan line is divided into segments having segment boundaries in which the same segment boundary in adjacent scan lines are offset. The frequency modulation device generates frequency data for use in modulating the input image data, which is utilized by the laser device to scan the image carrier, which permits output of an electrophotograph of high image quality by suppressing segment boundaries caused by moiré fringes or color shifting to below a level at which such boundaries are not visually detectable.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an image-forming apparatus employing a clock-generating circuit, which generates dot clock pulses utilized for an image-writing section of the image-forming apparatus. The clock-generating circuit includes a digital-delay dot clock adjusting section to generate first dot clock pulses having a predetermined number of pulses within a predetermined time interval at a constant exposing range of the image-writing section, wherein each period of the first dot clock pulses is slightly increased or reduced by changing a selection for a plurality of delayed clock pulses, which are generated by delaying clock-pulses, outputted from a reference oscillator, in slightly different delay times; and a jitter suppressing section to suppress a jitter component included in the first dot clock pulses, wherein the jitter suppressing section divides the first dot clock pulses to generate second dot clock pulses, and then, multiplies the second dot clock pulses to generate the dot clock pulses.
Abstract:
A frequency modulation device for use in an image forming apparatus. The image formation apparatus includes an image carrier and a laser device for scanning the image carrier along a plurality of scan lines. Each scan line is divided into segments having segment boundaries in which the same segment boundary in adjacent scan lines are offset. The frequency modulation device generates frequency data for use in modulating the input image data, which is utilized by the laser device to scan the image carrier, which permits output of an electrophotograph of high image quality by suppressing segment boundaries caused by moirnull fringes or color shifting to below a level at which such boundaries are not visually detectable.
Abstract:
There is provided an image forming apparatus that is capable of securing required printing quality by properly correcting a main scanning scale. In a pixel division modulating process, for each of one or more correction points (at l-th, m-th, and n-th pixels) on each of lines along which scanning is carried out on a photosensitive drum 11 by laser light, the final bit data of pixel-division-modulated pixel data of a pixel immediately preceding each correction point is added to the pixel data of a pixel located at the correction point as the leading bit data of the pixel-division-modulated pixel data of this pixel. The same processing as above is sequentially performed on pixel data of pixels located subsequently to the correction point to sequentially shift predetermined bit data of pixel data of pixels to pixel data of the respective following pixels, to thereby generate pixel data of a new pixel. The generated pixel data of the new pixel is outputted in synchronism with an image clock of a fixed frequency.
Abstract:
This invention is directed to an image printing apparatus which can print images without any halfway offset or obverse/reverse pixel offset at a low cost. An image printing apparatus includes a clock generating section which generates a dot clock as the basis of each pixel forming an image, an image printing section which prints a one-line image in a main scanning direction in accordance with image data with reference to the dot clock output from the clock generating section, and prints a one-page image by repeating in the sub-scanning direction one-line image printing performed in the main scanning direction, and a clock control section which changeably controls the frequency of the dot clock during scanning of one line in the main scanning direction.
Abstract:
An optical scanning apparatus provides improved image quality by changing the amount of writing scale compensation for a pixel clock during a scanning cycle. A pixel clock generation unit of the optical scanning apparatus divides the scanning cycle into multiple division periods. A phase change of the pixel clock is carried out for each of the division periods. The phase change can also be different from scanning cycle to scanning cycle.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an information reading/printing apparatus in which a carriage supports and moves a printing unit for printing information on a printing medium and a reading unit for reading information. The position of the carriage moved in each of left-to-right and right-to-left directions is detected.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for adjusting a photodetector array, and a beam-splitting and detector structure for a line scan camera, which structure comprises a photodetector array which is protected by a casing (10) from at least the back, and adjusted to the focus plan of an objective and glued to the exit surface focus plane of an objective and glued to the exit surface of the beamsplitting prism (2) by means of a support and adjusting structure. According to the invention, the supporting and adjusting structure comprising a glue layer (6) arranged between edges (19) surrounding the photodetector array (1) in the casing (10) and the exit surface (4) of the beam-splitting prism.