Patent ID: 8089709
Filing Date: 2012-01-03
Classification: B41J,G02B

Abstract:
1. A lens array unit comprising: a plurality of first lens array plates each having opposite first and second sides; a plurality of first lenses arranged on a first side of each of the plurality of first lens array plates, each first lens having a first optical axis that extends in a first direction, the first lenses being arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a plurality of second lens array plates each having opposite first and second sides; a plurality of second lenses arranged on a first side of each of the plurality of second lens array plates, each second lens having a second optical axis that extends in the first direction, the second lenses being arranged in the second direction; and a support member having opposite first and second sides, extending in the second direction to support the first lens array plates on the first side and support the second lens array plates on the second side so that each of the first lens array plates opposes a different corresponding one of the second lens array plates; wherein the first lens array plates are arranged, in a nonoverlapping manner with respect to the first direction, one after the next in the second direction on the first side of the support member, and the second lens array plates are arranged, in a nonoverlapping manner with respect to the first direction, one after the next in the second direction on the second side of the support member, the second sides of the plurality of the first and second lens array plates being supported by the support member.