Patent 7755822 was granted and assigned to RICOH COMPANY,LTD. on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A multibeam optical scanning device includes a plurality of light sources; a collimating lens; an aperture; a cylinder lens; a light deflecting unit; a scanning optical system; and a phase adjusting element. The phase adjusting element performs phase adjustments of wavefronts of the light beams to expand a depth allowance without substantially increasing a beam spot size of each of the beam spots on the scanning surface.