US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 28 for "Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus including same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,840, issued on July 28, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus including same" was invented by Jun Nakai (Osaka, Japan) and Takuto Kunimasa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanning device includes a scanning optical system, a housing, a skew adjustment mechanism, and a control unit. The skew adjustment mechanism rotates a skew adjustment motor in a fixed direction, so as to periodically change position of an optical element. When rotating the skew adjustment motor by a rotation amount corresponding to a half period of position change...