US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 14 for "Projection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,294, issued on July 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Projection apparatus" was invented by Soya Hatazaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoto Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Satoh (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yukio Kozaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection apparatus includes: multiple scanning optical systems each including: a light source to emit a light beam; a scanner to deflect the light beam from the light source to form a scanning light beam; a magnifier including: at least one positive lens; and at least one negative lens, to magnify a scanning angle of the scanning light beam from the scanner; and ...