Image reading apparatus
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuyoshi Tsutsumi
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus has a scanner device and an ADF mounted to be openable/closable relative to a document glass which is located on the scanner device. The ADF has a conveying roller for conveying a document past the document glass. The scanner device has a carriage moved along the document glass to allow the scanning of the document set on the document glass and the reading of the image out of the document. Further, the image reading apparatus further has only one motor for driving the conveying roller and for moving the carriage, a clutch for the ADF which is switched to transmit a drive force of the motor to the conveying roller and a clutch for the scanner device which is switched to transmit a drive force of the motor to the carriage.
Claims4
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a document glass which set a document to a predetermined reading-out position;
- a document conveying mechanism which convey the document past the reading-out position;
- a scanning/reading-out mechanism moved along the document glass to scan the document set to the reading-out position and read out an image from the document;
- only one drive source which drive the document conveying mechanism and scanning/reading-out mechanism;
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- switching means which allow a drive force from the drive source to be transmitted to any one of the document conveying mechanism and scanning/reading-out mechanism and selective switching to be made between their drive force transmission paths.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.