Document feeder and image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenji Kuroda, Shohichi Fukutome, Hironori Ogasawara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Toshiki Fukunishi
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Abstract
A document feeder includes an input tray (part of a document placing portion) on which a document is placed, an output tray on which the document output from a document output port in an output direction is stacked, and a substrate including a light source that emits light to the output tray. The output tray is disposed below the input tray. The substrate is fixed to the document placing portion at an oblique angle relative to a horizontal reference of the document feeder such that the optical axis of the light source extends toward the document output port.
Claims9
A document feeder comprising:
- a document placing portion on which a document is placed;
- a transporter which transports the document placed on the document placing portion so as to output the document from a document output port in an output direction;
- a document discharge portion on which the document output from the document output port is stacked;
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- a substrate including a light source that emits light with which the document discharge portion is irradiated,
- the document discharge portion being disposed below the document placing portion,
- the substrate being fixed to the document placing portion so as to incline relative to a horizontal reference of the document feeder, and inclining a surface of the substrate on which the light source is mounted such that an optical axis of the light source extends toward the document output port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.