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Granted Patent B2
US 12,481,152 · App. 18/049,676 · Granted Nov 25, 2025

Light scanning device

Inventor: Nobuya Tanaka (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
G02B26/101G02B26/0816G02B27/0172G02B2027/0178
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Patent No.
US 12,481,152
App. No.
18/049,676
Granted
Nov 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A light scanning device includes a light source that emits laser light, a mirror device that includes a movable mirror swinging about at least one axis and directionally changes the laser light emitted from the light source by reflecting the laser light using the movable mirror, and a condensing optical system that condenses the laser light directionally changed by the mirror device to a center of an eyeball.

Claims (8)

1 . A light scanning device comprising:

a light source that emits laser light;

a mirror device that includes a movable mirror swinging about at least one axis and directionally changes the laser light emitted from the light source by reflecting the laser light using the movable mirror; and

a condensing optical system that is a half-silvered mirror or a mirror having a concave surface and condenses at least a part of the laser light directionally changed by the mirror device to a center of an eyeball by reflecting at least the part of the laser light using the concave surface,

wherein the concave surface is an elliptical surface, and

a swinging axis of the movable mirror is positioned at one focal point of the elliptical surface, and the center of the eyeball is positioned at the other focal point of the elliptical surface.

2 . The light scanning device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the movable mirror is configured to be swingable about a first axis and a second axis that are orthogonal to each other.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2022
From: TANAKA, NOBUYA
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061539/0850 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-178340 · Oct 29, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230136877A1 · May 4, 2023
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