US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on Aug. 12 for "Lens mirror array, optical device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,939, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens mirror array, optical device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takashi Shiraishi (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element of a lens mirror array according to an embodiment includes an incident-side lens surface, a first reflection surface, a second reflection surface, an emission-side lens surface, a first positioning surface, and a second positioning surface. The incident-side lens surface refracts and converges incident light. The first reflection surface reflects light made incident via the incident-side lens surf...