Image reading apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYohei Miyagi, Yuhei Hamada, Keita Fuji
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Abstract
A scanner includes a reading unit, a reversing unit, a discharge unit, a mounting portion, and a pressing portion. The discharge unit discharges a document that is reversed by the reversing unit. On the mounting portion, the document discharged by the discharge unit is mounted. The pressing portion presses the document toward the mounting portion. The pressing portion has a moving member that is provided and configured to move toward the mounting portion, and an elastic member that applies an elastic force to the moving member so that the moving member comes into contact with the document on the mounting portion.
Claims16
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a reading unit that reads a document;
- a reversing unit that reverses front and rear of the document read by the reading unit;
- a discharge unit that discharges the document reversed in the reversing unit in a discharging direction;
- a mounting portion on which the document discharged by the discharge unit is mounted;
- and
- a pressing portion that presses the document toward the mounting portion, wherein
- the pressing portion has
- a moving member that is provided and configured to move toward the mounting portion, and
- an elastic member that applies an elastic force to the moving member to cause the moving member to come into contact with the document on the mounting portion,
- wherein a first interval between a downstream end in the discharging direction of the moving member and the mounting portion is smaller than a second interval between an upstream end in the discharging direction of the moving member and the mounting portion, and
- wherein the moving member has a first surface facing a mounting surface of the mounting portion, and a second surface located upstream in the discharging direction with respect to the first surface, and when an angle formed by a virtual plane obtained by moving the mounting surface in parallel and the first surface is a first angle θ1, and an angle formed by the virtual plane and the second surface is a second angle θ2, the first angle θ1 is smaller than the second angle θ2.
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a reading unit that reads a document;
- a reversing unit that reverses front and rear of the document read by the reading unit;
- a discharge unit that discharges the document reversed in the reversing unit in a discharging direction;
- a mounting portion on which the document discharged by the discharge unit is mounted;
- and
- a pressing portion that presses the document toward the mounting portion, wherein
- the pressing portion has
- a moving member that is provided and configured to move toward the mounting portion, and
- an elastic member that applies an elastic force to the moving member to cause the moving member to come into contact with the document on the mounting portion,
- wherein there is a gap between the pressing portion and the mounting portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.