US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 29 for "Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,362, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Yamano (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuya Nishiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroyuki Fukuhara (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanning device includes a deflector, a lens, a casing including a bottom surface on which the deflector and the lens are mounted and a side wall on which a light source is mounted; and a fixing member to position the lens to the casing and to fix an end portion of the lens in a longitudinal direction. In a state in which the lens is fixed to the casing,...