US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on March 3 for "Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,328, issued on March 3, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Tomohide Hozono (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshinobu Yoneima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanning device includes a light source portion, a deflector, a first scanning lens, a second scanning lens, and a pair of reflection mirrors. The first scanning lens collects a light beam having been reflected by the deflector. The second scanning lens causes the light beam having passed through the first scanning lens to form an image on a circumferential surface of an ...