Image sensor
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsAkiko Fujiuchi, Seiichi Matsumura
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Abstract
An image sensor includes: a lens configured to focus light irradiated toward an object to be read and reflected by the object to be read; a sensor configured to receive light focused by the lens; a sensor board configured to mount thereon the sensor; a board retaining plate, having a casing attachment surface extending in the X direction and a sensor board attachment reference surface that is in contact with the +Y side of the sensor board and is formed in a side surface of the casing attachment surface, and configured to retain the sensor board; and a first casing configured to fix or retain the board retaining plate by fastening of a surface of the casing attachment surface.
Claims6
An image sensor, comprising:
- a focusing optical system configured to focus light irradiated toward an irradiated object and reflected by the irradiated object;
- a light receiver configured to receive light focused by the focusing optical system;
- a sensor board configured to mount thereon the light receiver;
- a board retaining plate configured to retain the sensor board, the board retaining plate includes a stepped portion extending in a main scanning direction, the stepped portion including a bottom surface and a side surface, and a reference surface being formed in the side surface of the stepped portion, the reference surface is in contact with a sub-scanning-direction end side of the sensor board and the bottom surface of the stepped portion is in contact with a bottom surface of the sensor board;
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- a casing configured to fix or retain the board retaining plate by fastening of a surface of the stepped portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.