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US 2006/0050329 A1Published application
Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasahiko Yokota
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes an original resting glass sheet for resting allowing an original thereon, a support device for supporting an end portion of the original resting glass sheet, and a movable image reading unit for reading image information of the original, wherein the support device is provided with a cutout for preventing the support device from coming into contact with the image reading unit when the image reading unit moves outwardly beyond the end portion of the original resting glass sheet.
Claims8
1-10. (canceled)
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- an original resting member, on an upper surface of which an original is rested;
- a scanning unit which scans the original rested on said original resting member;
- a moving mechanism which moves said scanning unit in a predetermined direction along a lower surface of said original resting member;
- a regulating member which regulates a distance between said scanning unit and said original resting member by sliding on the lower surface of said original resting member when said scanning unit is moved in the predetermined direction by said moving mechanism;
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- a support member which supports the original resting member over a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction from a side of the lower surface of said original resting member in a vicinity of an end of said apparatus,
- wherein said support member is provided with a cutout which prevents said regulating member from coming into contact with said support member when said scanning unit is moved to the vicinity of said end along the lower surface of said original resting member by said moving mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.