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US 2004/0017593 A1Published application
Optical scanner with inclined platen
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorModest Khovaylo
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Abstract
An optical scanner including a housing having a top portion, a bottom portion, a front portion and a rear portion; a platen member forming a portion of the housing top portion, the platen member having a flat upper surface defining a platen plane; a scanner base provided on the housing bottom portion and defining a base plane; the platen plane being inclined relative to the base plane.
Claims17
A flatbed optical scanner comprising:
- an inclined platen having a higher end portion and a lower end portion;
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- a scanner carriage displaceable between said higher end portion and said lower end portion of said inclined platen.
A flatbed optical scanner comprising:
- means for supporting a document in an inclined relationship with a horizontal plane and in a transparent relationship with an imaging light source positioned below the document;
- means for displacing said imaging light source between a relatively lower position and a relatively higher position along an inclined displacement path.
A method of scanning a document comprising:
- placing the document on a platen;
- displacing a scanner carriage along an inclined displacement path adjacent the platen between relatively higher and lower positions on said path.
A method of scanning a document comprising:
- facing a front end portion of a flatbed scanner;
- rotating a scanner cover hinged at a rear end portion of the scanner;
- placing the document on an inclined platen having a lower end at the front end portion of the scanner;
- registering an edge portion of the document with a registration surface positioned proximate the lower end of the platen.
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