US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Sept. 29 for "Optical device, image reading unit, and image forming apparatus correcting a width of a slit for reflected light" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,452, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical device, image reading unit, and image forming apparatus correcting a width of a slit for reflected light" was invented by Hiroshi Sawada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuo Matsumae (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes: a restriction member that restricts part of reflected light from a target object, the restriction member being formed from resin, the restriction member having an opening and a hole, the opening extending in a first direction crossing a propagation direction of the reflected light and formed at ...