US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Exposure apparatus and image-forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,252, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Exposure apparatus and image-forming apparatus" was invented by Yasutomo Furuta (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exposure apparatus includes a printed circuit board on which light-emitting chips each having a light-emitting element array are arranged in a staggered manner along a reference line that is parallel to an axial direction of a photosensitive member, and a rod lens array that images light from the light-emitting chips onto a surface of the photosensitive member. The rod lens array is constituted by two rows of lenses. The reference line is equidista...