Abstract: A lens device is provided and includes: a housing having a first fixed axis in a transverse direction and a second fixed axis in a longitudinal direction; a first slider supported so as to be slidable along the first fixed axis; a second slider supported so as to be slidable along the second fixed axis; a first movement bar fixed to the first slider in the longitudinal direction; a second movement bar fixed to the second slider in the transverse direction; and a lens holding frame supported so as to be slidable along the first movement bar and the second movement bar. The lens holding frame has two recessed engagement sections open in two different directions, and one of the first and second movement axes is inserted into and engaged with the two recessed engagement sections.

Abstract: A lens device is provided and includes: a housing having a first fixed axis fixed in a transverse direction and a second fixed axis fixed in a longitudinal direction; a first slider supported so as to be slidable along the first fixed axis; a second slider supported so as to be slidable along the second fixed axis; a first movement bar fixed to the first slider in the longitudinal direction; a second movement bar fixed to the second slider in the transverse direction; a lens holding frame supported so as to be slidable along the first movement bar and the second movement bar; and a guide bar fixed to the housing in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. One of the first and second sliders has an engagement section engaged with the guide bar so as to be regulated in the optical axis direction.

Abstract: Mirror sequential data supplied from an RIP are temporarily stored as divided data in memory banks of an intermediate memory. Thereafter, the stored mirror sequential data are read in blocks. Then, a transposition processor transposes a matrix of the mirror sequential data into frame sequential data, and supplies the frame sequential data to a DMD controller.

Abstract: When an image of a two-dimensional pattern is formed on a photosensitive material by performing spatial light modulation on light emitted from a light source by a spatial light modulation means including a multiplicity of arranged pixel units and by forming an image by a second imaging optical system after forming an image of each of light beams corresponding to the pixel units, on which the spatial light modulation has been performed, by a first imaging optical system, the imaging position of each of light beams is controlled separately for each of the light beams. Accordingly, the image of the two-dimensional pattern formed on the photosensitive material coincides with an intended two-dimensional pattern.

Abstract: A lens device is provided and includes: a lens barrel body in a box form opened in an upper surface thereof; a lid member attached to the upper surface of the lens barrel body; three fixing units that fix the lid member and the lens barrel body; and at least one engaging unit that engages the lid member with the lens barrel body so as to prevent the lid member from separating from the lens barrel body.

Abstract: A lens device is provided and includes: a vibration-proof lens; a movable lens disposed adjacent to the vibration-proof lens and moving in a direction of an imaging optical axis of the lens device; and a plate-like motor coil disposed around an outer periphery of the vibration-proof lens and driving the vibration-proof lens, the movable lens being located in a retracted position on the imaging optical axis relative to the plate-like motor coil when the movable lens moves closest to the plate like motor coil.

Abstract: A lens device is provided and includes: a lens barrel body; a lens frame swingably attached to the lens barrel body; and a swing mechanism being adapted to swing the lens frame so that alignment of an optical axis of the lens device can be effected, the swing mechanism including: an elastic unit interposed between the lens barrel body and the lens frame, the elastic unit biasing the lens barrel body and the lens frame in directions away from each other or in directions nearing to each other; and an advancing and retracting unit disposed at three points in a circumferential direction defined by the lens barrel body and the lens frame, the advancing and retracting unit advancing or retracting the lens frame relative to the lens barrel body against a bias force of the elastic unit to swing the lens frame.

Abstract: A lens device is provided and includes: at least two lenses; and a lens frame holding the at least two lenses. The lens frame includes a first lens frame holding one of the at least two lenses and a second lens frame holding another of the at least two lenses, and the first lens frame and the second lens frame are attached in a line contact in circumferential directions thereof. The first lens frame and the second lens frame are bonded after an optical adjustment of the at least two lenses by relatively swinging the first lens framed and the second lens frame with respect to the line contact.

Abstract: A tracing method in which tracing is performed by moving a spatial optical modulation device in a predetermined scanning direction relative to a tracing surface is provided. The spatial optical modulation device includes multitudes of tracing elements for modulating inputted light according to control signals transferred in accordance with tracing information. The method allows the spatial optical modulation device to perform the modulation rapidly to reduce the tracing time. The special modulation device is divided into a plurality of blocks A to D, and the control signals for each of the blocks A to D are transferred to the blocks in parallel.

Abstract: In a tracing method in which tracing is performed by moving a plurality of tracing heads, each including a spatial optical modulation device and an optics system, in a predetermined direction relative to a tracing surface, changes in the relative positional relationship of the tracing heads arising from changes in the environmental temperature are minimized. A plurality of spatial optical modulation devices 34a, 34b are provided in a single tracing head 30, and the light modulated by the plurality of spatial optical modulation devices 34a, 34b is focused on a tracing surface 12a using common optics systems 36, 37 and 38 to reduce the number of the heads 30.

Abstract: There is provided a lens barrel with an vibration reduction unit, which allows a reduction in dimension of the lens barrel in the optical-axis direction in the accommodated state, and an imaging device including such lens barrel. The lens barrel includes first and second lens units, a drive part for driving one of the first and second lens units in the optical-axis direction with respect to a stationary part, the drive part driving the one of the first and second lens units to approach each other during shifting to an accommodated state, and an vibration reduction part for moving the other lens unit in a plane substantially orthogonal to the optical axis so that at least part of a position of the other lens unit in the optical-axis direction coincides with a position of the drive part in the accommodated state.

Abstract: Light modulated by a spatial light modulator is projected onto photosensitive material and the photosensitive material is exposed to light in a predetermined pattern. The action of the spatial light modulator is controlled so that the amount of the light projected onto the photosensitive material is changed in at least two stages according to the part of the photosensitive material.

Abstract: An imaging head faces an imaging surface and is relatively moved along the scanning surface in a predetermined scanning direction. The imaging head includes an imaging element group and an alteration section. The imaging element group is structured by a plurality of imaging elements, which are arranged two-dimensionally in a plane substantially parallel to the imaging surface. The imaging element group generates a group of image pixels at the imaging surface in a two-dimensional arrangement which is inclined, as a whole, at a predetermined inclination angle with respect to the scanning direction. The alteration section alters a number of image pixels in a direction which is inclined from the scanning direction by the inclination angle, on the basis of a difference between the predetermined inclination angle of the imaging element group and an actual inclination angle of the image pixel group.

Abstract: When the adjusting shaft is rotated, the rotation of the adjusting shaft is transmitted to the rotationally movable barrel. The rotationally movable barrel rotates so that the rotationally movable barrel moves forward and backward along optical axis while rotating due to the interaction between the female screw portion formed in the distal end of the rotationally movable barrel and the male screw portion formed in the second flange portion of the fixed barrel. The forward and backward movement of the rotationally movable barrel along optical axis causes the rectilinearly movable barrel connected to the connecting portion of the rotationally movable barrel through the groove, to move forward and backward along optical axis. Accordingly, the CCD fixed to the rectilinearly movable barrel through the CCD carrier moves forward and backward along optical axis, thereby correcting the flange-back length.

Abstract: A laser exposure device at which alignment marks of a plate material on an exposure stage, which is moving in a direction opposite to a scanning direction, are read by a CCD camera mounted at a support gate, after which an imaging region, whose position is judged using the alignment marks, is exposed by a laser beam from a laser scanner. Here, a distance along the scanning direction from the CCD camera to the laser scanner is not less than a pitch of the alignment marks that are provided to respectively correspond to a trailing end and a leading end of the imaging region. According to this laser exposure device, even in a case in which a plurality of the imaging region is provided at a recording medium, an increase in a duration for forming images on the recording medium in accordance with an increase in imaging regions is prevented.

Abstract: An imaging head faces an imaging surface and is relatively moved along the scanning surface in a predetermined scanning direction. The imaging head includes an imaging element group and an alteration section. The imaging element group is structured by a plurality of imaging elements, which are arranged two-dimensionally in a plane substantially parallel to the imaging surface. The imaging element group generates a group of image pixels at the imaging surface in a two-dimensional arrangement which is inclined, as a whole, at a predetermined inclination angle with respect to the scanning direction. The alteration section alters a number of image pixels in a direction which is inclined from the scanning direction by the inclination angle, on the basis of a difference between the predetermined inclination angle of the imaging element group and an actual inclination angle of the image pixel group.

Abstract: An image recording device, wherein deviation of an image-recording start position, which results from a difference in the amount of expansion and contraction based on temperature changes between a printing plate precursor, a rotating support, a mechanism for moving a recording head, and the like, is corrected so that an image can be recorded at a proper position. Temperature 1 near the rotating support is obtained by a first temperature sensor, and temperature 2 near the mechanism is obtained by a second temperature sensor. Then, an amount for correcting an image-recording start position is obtained from a correction table based on the temperatures 1 and 2 and on a size of the printing plate precursor, and the number of drive pulses for correction corresponding to the obtained amount of correction is outputted to a drive motor of the mechanism.

Abstract: A laser exposure device at which alignment marks of a plate material on an exposure stage, which is moving in a direction opposite to a scanning direction, are read by a CCD camera mounted at a support gate, after which an imaging region, whose position is judged using the alignment marks, is exposed by a laser beam from a laser scanner. Here, a distance along the scanning direction from the CCD camera to the laser scanner is not less than a pitch of the alignment marks that are provided to respectively correspond to a trailing end and a leading end of the imaging region. According to this laser exposure device, even in a case in which a plurality of the imaging region is provided at a recording medium, an increase in a duration for forming images on the recording medium in accordance with an increase in imaging regions is prevented.

Abstract: An imaging head faces an imaging surface and is relatively moved along the scanning surface in a predetermined scanning direction. The imaging head includes an imaging element group and an alteration section. The imaging element group is structured by a plurality of imaging elements, which are arranged two-dimensionally in a plane substantially parallel to the imaging surface. The imaging element group generates a group of image pixels at the imaging surface in a two-dimensional arrangement which is inclined, as a whole, at a predetermined inclination angle with respect to the scanning direction. The alteration section alters a number of image pixels in a direction which is inclined from the scanning direction by the inclination angle, on the basis of a difference between the predetermined inclination angle of the imaging element group and an actual inclination angle of the image pixel group.

Abstract: When the adjusting shaft is rotated, the rotation of the adjusting shaft is transmitted to the rotationally movable barrel. The rotationally movable barrel rotates so that the rotationally movable barrel moves forward and backward along optical axis while rotating due to the interaction between the female screw portion formed in the distal end of the rotationally movable barrel and the male screw portion formed in the second flange portion of the fixed barrel. The forward and backward movement of the rotationally movable barrel along optical axis causes the rectilinearly movable barrel connected to the connecting portion of the rotationally movable barrel through the groove, to move forward and backward along optical axis. Accordingly, the CCD fixed to the rectilinearly movable barrel through the CCD carrier moves forward and backward along optical axis, thereby correcting the flange-back length.