Multibeam straight-line laser scanning device

Abstract

The invention relates to a multi-line laser beam scanning device, which includes a semiconductor laser group, straight-shooting group, a MEMS Swing Mirror Group, and a linear scanning lens group, of which, the semiconductor laser group may shoot multiple laser beam as four beams, respectively the Collimation group formed parallel beam, and each shot to the MEMS Swing Mirror Group, then through the harmonic swing of Mirror Group to linear scanning lens group which respectively reflected from multi-channel laser beam and then by linear scanning lens group enables multi-channel laser beams were projected onto the surface imaging (photosensitive drum), and do the scanning with a uniform velocity rate, and so Laser scanning device achieve the required function of linear scan.

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technical field [0001] The present invention provides a multi-beam in-line laser scanning device, especially a micro-electro-mechanical in-line micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS Array) structural type to form a vertically stacked miniaturized in-line MEMS swing mirror group, and utilizes Several F-Sinθ mirrors are stacked vertically to form a linear scanning mirror group corresponding to the in-line mirror group, so as to effectively reduce the size of the color printer and improve scanning efficiency. Background technique [0002] At present, the application technology of LBP (Laser Beam Printer) has included US patents US 5,128,795, US 5,162,938, US 5,329,399, US 5,710,654, US 5,757,533, US 5,619,362, US 5,721,631, US 5,553,729, US 5,911 US6,724,509, and Japan 4-50908, Japan 5-45580 and other patents, and the laser scanning device LSU (Laser Scanning Unit) module used in it mostly uses a high-speed rotating polygon mirror (polygonmirror) to control the laser beam Scanning ac...

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[0004] (2) The polygonal mirror must have the function of high rotation (such as 40,000 rpm), and the precision requirements are high. As a result, the Y-axis width of the reflective surface on the general polygonal mirror is extremely thin, so a cylinder must be added to the conventional LSU. Cylindrical lens so that the laser beam can be focused into a line (a point on the Y-axis) through the cylindrical lens and then projected on the reflector of the polygonal mirror, resulting in increased components and assembly processes

[0005] (3) The conventional multi-faceted mirror must be rotated at a high speed (such as 40000 rpm), resulting in a relatively high rotation noise, and it takes a long time for the multi-faceted mirror to be activated to the working speed, which increases the waiting time after starting up

[0006] (4) In the assembly structure of the conventional LSU, the central axis of the laser beam projected to the polygonal mirror is not directly facing the central rotation axis of the polygonal mirror, so when designing the matching F-θ lens, the off-axis of the polygonal mirror must be considered at the same time The deviation problem (deviation) relatively increases the design and production troubles of the F-θ lens

[0007] Also, the laser scanning device LSU module used by the color printer LBP must simultaneously control the reflection directions of multiple (such as 4) laser beams to simultaneously meet the requirements of linear scanning, such as US patents US6,798,820, US 6,839,074, US 6,914,705, and The laser scanning device LSU module used in the above-mentioned US patent still uses a high-speed rotating polygonal mirror to control the reflection direction of multiple laser beams, which not only has the lack of the above-mentioned conventional laser scanning device LSU, but also has a more complicated structure and configuration This will not only increase the design difficulty, but also relatively increase the volume of the color printer, which does not meet the requirements of thinness and shortness

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