Abstract: A line head includes: a support member; a light emitting substrate unit having a first substrate supported by the support member and a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a first direction of the first substrate; a circuit board unit having a second substrate and at least one interface circuit, which is provided to the second substrate, and to which at least one signal for driving the light emitting elements is input; and a flexible printed circuit board having a wiring pattern adapted to electrically connect the light emitting substrate unit and the circuit board unit to each other, wherein the flexible printed circuit board is disposed so as to be connected at an end of the second substrate in a second direction one of perpendicular and substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and is folded back from one end to the other end.

Abstract: An exposure head includes: a first light emitting device group including light emitting devices disposed at different positions in a direction perpendicular or approximately perpendicular to a moving direction of an exposed side; a second light emitting device group disposed in the moving direction of the exposed side with respect to the first light emitting device group; an imaging optical system imaging light from the light emitting devices to expose the exposed side; and a control unit allowing one light emitting device group out of either the first light emitting device group or the second light emitting device group to emit light on the basis of a driving signal.

Abstract: An optical head is adapted to form an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier. A transparent substrate has a first face adapted to oppose the image carrier and a second face opposing the first face. An organic EL photo emitter is disposed so as to oppose the second face of the substrate. In the photo emitter, a light emitting layer is adapted to emit light irradiating the image carrier to form the electrostatic latent image. An electrode layer is laminated on the light emitting layer. A reflection reducer eliminates stray light generated when the light emitted from the light emitting layer is reflected by at least the electrode layer.

Abstract: Image data are inputted from a data processing means (23) into storage means (24) so that light emitting elements on one line (28a) of a light emitting element (yellow) line head (28) are actuated according to signal outputted from a shift resistor (24a) so as to expose pixels on an image carrier. At a point of time when the pixels reach a position corresponding to the light emitting elements in a next line (28b) by moving the image carrier in a direction of arrow X, the image data are transmitted to a shift resistor (24b) and then outputted to the line (28b) so as to expose the pixels again. The image data are transmitted among the shift resistors sequentially by moving the image carrier, thereby achieving the multiple exposure of the same pixels.

Abstract: A plurality of first light emitters are arrayed on the substrate in a first direction so as to form a light emitter array. Each of the first light emitters has a first dimension in the first direction. A plurality of second light emitters are arrayed on the substrate in the first direction. Each of the second light emitters has a second dimension in the first direction which is larger than the first dimension.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, includes: a latent image carrier that moves in a first direction; an exposure head that includes a first imaging optical system, a second imaging optical system that is distanced from the first imaging optical system in the first direction, a light emitting element that emits a light to be imaged on the latent image carrier by the first imaging optical system and a light emitting element that emits a light to be imaged on the latent image carrier by the second imaging optical system; and a controller that is adapted to control a light quantity of the light emitting element that emits a light to be imaged on the latent image carrier by the first imaging optical system in accordance with an imaging characteristic of the first imaging optical system.

Abstract: An image forming device includes: an exposure head having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a first direction, a first imaging optical system adapted to image light emitted from the light emitting elements, and a second imaging optical system disposed in a second direction with respect to the first imaging optical system; a latent image carrier movable in the second direction; a detection section adapted to detect a moving time the latent image carrier takes to move from a first position to a second position in the second direction; and a control section adapted to control the time from emission of a first part of the light emitting elements adapted to emit light to be imaged by the first imaging optical system to emission of a second part of the light emitting elements adapted to emit light to be imaged by the second imaging optical system based on the detection result of the detection section, thereby aligning a latent image formed on the latent image carrier by the first imaging optical sy

Abstract: A line head includes a head substrate, a first light-emitting element group having first light-emitting elements, a second light-emitting element group having second light-emitting elements, a first wiring line disposed on the head substrate and electrically connected to the first light-emitting elements, a second wiring line disposed on the head substrate and electrically connected to the second light-emitting elements, a first connecting unit disposed on one side of the head substrate and electrically connected to the first wiring line, and a second connecting unit disposed on the other side of the head substrate and electrically connected to the second wiring line.

Abstract: A line head includes light-emitting element lines formed by arranging a plurality of light sources in a line shape in a main scanning direction. Each of the light sources is turned on/off corresponding to image data. Light beams emitted from the light sources pass through a lens array to form imaged spots on an exposed surface. The imaged spots generated by making the light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources imaged on the exposed surface are shifted by inches in the main scanning direction or a sub-scanning direction so as to overlap each other, thereby forming images. A gray-scale image of the images has a screen structure displayed on the basis of an area of dots or lines having a predetermined pitch. A diameter of each of the imaged spots formed on the exposed surface is set to be larger than a pitch between pixels and smaller than a pitch between lines or dots forming the screen. Gradation of an image is displayed by a combination of binary states of ON/OFF of each of the light sources.

Abstract: A line head, includes: a head substrate; a first light emitting element group which is arranged on the head substrate and includes a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element; a second light emitting element group and a third light emitting element group which are arranged in a first direction on the head substrate; a first wiring which is arranged between the second and the third light emitting element groups on the head substrate and is electrically connected with the first light emitting element; a second wiring which is arranged between the second and the third light emitting element groups on the head substrate and is electrically connected with the second light emitting element; and a connecting portion which is arranged on the head substrate and is electrically connected with the first and the second wirings.

Abstract: A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of the feeding portions; and a second power supply line for ground, connected to a second feeding portion for a ground of the feeding portions. The light-emitting elements are respectively connected between the first power supply line and the second power supply line.

Abstract: In a line head, a plurality of light emitters are arrayed on a substrate in a first direction. Each of the light emitters is operable to emit a light beam. In a rod lens array, a plurality of rod lenses are arrayed in the first direction, and each of the rod lenses is adapted to focus the light beam emitted from an associated one of the light emitters onto a target surface. The substrate and the rod lens array are attached to a holder elongated in the first direction. Positioning members are provided at both end portions of the holder in the first direction. A relative position between the substrate and at least one of the positioning members is variable in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: In a line head, a plurality of element arrays arranged in a first direction. Each array includes a plurality of light emission elements arrayed in a second direction which is perpendicularly to the first direction. The light emission elements emit light for forming an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive surface of an image carrier. A switcher activates the light emission elements in at least one of the element arrays while deactivating the others. A developer develops the latent image as a visible image with toner.

Abstract: At least one light emission array includes a plurality of light emitting elements arrayed in a first direction. Each of the light emitting elements is an organic electroluminescence element. A monitor quantitatively monitors a light emitting state of at least one of the light emitting elements to obtain a monitored amount. A comparator compares the monitored amount and a reference amount. A controller performs a constant current control with respect to at least one of the light emitting elements in accordance with a result of the comparison performed by the comparator.

Abstract: A line head includes a plurality of the light emitting element columns which has a main light emitting element column exposing a light amount necessary for exposure to an image carrier and an auxiliary light emitting element column exposing the image carrier so as to obtain the light amount necessary for exposure even when a light emitting element having a pixel defect is existed in the main light emitting element column. Also, a line head includes a plurality of the light emitting element columns. The light emitting element columns includes a main light emitting element column exposing an image carrier and an auxiliary light emitting element column exposing the image carrier when a light emitting element having a pixel defect is existed in the main light emitting element column.

Abstract: A plurality of photo emitters are arrayed on a transparent substrate in a first direction to form at least one photo emitter array. An electrode is provided on the substrate and electrically connected to the photo emitters in common. A dimension of the electrode in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction is smaller than a dimension of the substrate in the second direction.

Abstract: In a line head, a plurality of light emitters are arrayed on a substrate in a first direction. Each of the light emitters is operable to emit a light beam. In a rod lens array, a plurality of rod lenses are arrayed in the first direction, and each of the rod lenses is adapted to focus the light beam emitted from an associated one of the light emitters onto a target surface. The substrate and the rod lens array are attached to a holder elongated in the first direction. Positioning members are provided at both end portions of the holder in the first direction. A relative position between the substrate and at least one of the positioning members is variable in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of the feeding portions; and a second power supply line for ground, connected to a second feeding portion for a ground of the feeding portions. The light-emitting elements are respectively connected between the first power supply line and the second power supply line.

Abstract: A plurality of photo emitters are arrayed on a transparent substrate in a first direction to form at least one photo emitter array. An electrode is provided on the substrate and electrically connected to the photo emitters in common. A dimension of the electrode in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction is smaller than a dimension of the substrate in the second direction.

Abstract: A photosensitive member is movable in a first direction. A line head is provided with a plurality of organic-EL photo emitters, arrayed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to form a plurality of photo emitter arrays arranged in the first direction. A plurality of imaging lenses are arrayed in the second direction to form at least one lens array, so that an array of pixels defined on the photosensitive member are subjected to multiple exposure to light emitted from the photo emitter arrays in accordance with the movement of the photosensitive member, thereby forming an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member. At least one chromatic-aberration correcting lens is adapted to correct chromatic aberration of the imaging lenses relative to the first direction, and disposed between the photo emitter arrays and the lens array.