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US 12,184,820 B2Granted
Image reading apparatus and recording apparatus with control substrates within a document feed unit
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTatsuya Fukayama, Toshimitsu Ohara, Tadashige Yamagishi, Masakazu Ishihara
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes a scanner unit configured to read a document, a document feed unit provided above the scanner unit and configured to feed the document and read the fed document, a first substrate configured to control an operation of the scanner unit, and a second substrate configured to control an operation of the document feed unit, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are provided in a substrate placement section of the document feed unit.
Claims14
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a scanner unit configured to read a document placed on a document placement section;
- a document feed unit provided above the scanner unit and configured to feed the document and read the fed document;
- a first control substrate configured to control an operation of the scanner unit, the first control substrate being connected to the scanner unit via at least one first wiring;
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- a second control substrate configured to control an operation of the document feed unit, the second control substrate being connected to the document feed unit via at least one second wiring;
- a wiring connecting the first control substrate and the second control substrate, a non-overlapping region where the first control substrate and the second control substrate do not overlap each other as viewed in a horizontal direction overlaps the wiring as viewed in the horizontal direction, wherein
- the first control substrate and the second control substrate are provided in a substrate placement section inside of the document feed unit with the first control substrate and the second control substrate disposed to extend in a first direction, which intersects with a depth direction, with the first control substrate and the second control substrate overlapping when viewed in the depth direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.