Image reading apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsuyoshi Yamauchi
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Abstract
This invention has as its object to prevent a flexible flat cable which connects a control board and an image reading unit from contacting a document table glass. An image reading apparatus has an image reading unit for reading a document placed on a document table glass, a drive unit for scanning the image reading unit relative to the document, and a flexible flat cable for electrically connecting an electric circuit fixed in the main body of the image reading apparatus, and the image reading unit which moves relative to the main body. That portion of the flexible flat cable, which includes a portion that is movable upon scanning of the image reading unit is folded into at least two, and stands nearly perpendicularly to the document table glass.
Claims7
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- an image reading device adapted to read a document placed on a document table;
- a drive device adapted to scan said image reading device relative to the document;
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- a connection device adapted to connect a signal processing unit fixed in a main body of said image reading apparatus, and said image reading device which moves relative to the main body,
- wherein a portion of said connection device, which includes a portion that is movable upon scanning of said image reading device is folded into at least two in a widthwise direction thereof and stands substantially perpendicularly to the document table.
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- an image reading device adapted to read a document placed on a document table;
- a drive device adapted to scan said image reading device relative to the document;
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- a band-shaped connection device adapted to connect a signal processing unit which processes a signal output from said image reading device, and said image reading device which moves relative to the signal processing unit by said drive device,
- wherein said connection device is connected to a portion of a side surface in a longitudinal direction of said image reading device, and is connected to the signal processing unit to wrap around the longitudinal direction of said image reading device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.