Patent ID: 7436567

Claim:
An optical scanner, comprising: a mirror section having a reflecting mirror to reflect light; a movable frame positioned to surround the mirror section and to support the mirror section with a pair of torsion bars arranged to hold the mirror section therebetween; a stationary frame positioned to surround the movable frame and to support the movable frame with at least a pair of bendable beams, wherein one end of each of the pair of bendable beams is jointed to the stationary frame and the other end is jointed to the movable frame in a vicinity of at least one of a pair of joint sections arranged to hold the movable frame therebetween and a first axis connecting the pair of torsion bars is arranged to be perpendicular to a second axis connecting the pair of joint sections; and a pair of actuators provided on the pair of bendable beams and to make the pair of bendable beams to cause a bending oscillation upon receipt of a predetermined driving signal so as to rotate the mirror section around the first axis and the second axis.