Patent ID: 8717638

Claim:
An optical scanner comprising: a light reflecting section having light reflectivity; a movable section which includes the light reflecting section and can be displaced; two link sections connected to positions of ends of the movable section, the positions facing each other; a supporting section supporting the link sections; and a displacement providing section turning the two link sections, wherein each link section includes: a turnable drive section, and a shaft section connecting the movable section and the turnable drive section and bending in a thickness direction of the movable section by turning of the turnable drive section; and wherein when two axes which are at right angles to one another in a plan view of the movable section are an X axis and a Y axis, each of the two link sections has the turnable drive section placed so as to be away from the movable section in an X-axis direction, a first shaft section which is the shaft section connecting the movable section and the turnable drive section and extending in the X-axis direction, and a second shaft section connecting the turnable drive section and the supporting section and extending in a Y-axis direction, and the first shaft section is bent by making the displacement providing section turn the turnable drive section about the Y axis while torsionally deforming the second shaft section.