Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Illumination device, image scanning apparatus, and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US16277951Application Date: 2019-02-15
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Publication No.: US10567609B2Publication Date: 2020-02-18
- Inventor: Yasuhiro Sutoh , Shohichi Fukutome , Kenji Nakanishi , Yuuya Iwai
- Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Sakai, Osaka
- Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Sakai, Osaka
- Agency: ScienBiziP, P.C.
- Priority: JP2016-233731 20161201
- Main IPC: H04N1/04
- IPC: H04N1/04 ; H04N1/028 ; F21V8/00

Abstract:
An illumination device includes a light guide member having a bar-like shape and a light source disposed so as to face an end surface of the light guide member. The illumination device guides light from the light source in the light guide member and emits the light from a light emission surface of the light guide member formed in a longitudinal direction of the light guide member. The light emission surface includes a first light diffusing portion that is formed in a first portion near the light source and that has a protruding/recessed shape, and a second light diffusing portion that is formed in a second portion adjacent to an end of the first light diffusing portion, the end being away from the light source. The second light diffusing portion has a protruding/recessed shape and has lower light diffusivity than the first light diffusing portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190191050A1 ILLUMINATION DEVICE, IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-06-20
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