Patent ID: 7215455

Claim:
An inner drum exposure apparatus, comprising: a support having an arcuate inner peripheral surface on which a recording material on which an image is recorded is held; a light source for emitting a light beam; modulating means for modulating in accordance with image information of said image said light beam emitted from said light source; scanning means being rotatably driven and having a total reflection mirror plane, said scanning means for scanning said recording material held on said arcuate inner peripheral surface of said support with said light beam that is modulated in accordance with said image information by said modulating means and deflected by said total reflection mirror plane of said rotatably driven scanning means, wherein said image is recorded on said recording material by scanning said recording material with said modulated light beam, said scanning means comprises: a first cylindrical lens for condensing said modulated light beam incident into said total reflection mirror plane along one first plane containing an optical axis of said incident light beam; and a second cylindrical lens for diverging said incident light beam along one second plane orthogonal to said one first plane containing said optical axis, and said incident light beam is shaped into a beam spot of an elliptical configuration whose major axis is orthogonal to a beam deflecting/scanning direction by said first cylindrical lens and said second cylindrical lens.