Image reading apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaho Kurokawa, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi
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Abstract
To provide a technology which facilitates positioning of a document to a document table even in a condition of a vertically placed image reading apparatus and by which operability was improved. It is configured in such a manner that, in case that a document cover 6 was opened to an apparatus main body 1 in the vertically placed condition, (a distance c between a document table glass 2 of an apparatus main body 1 and an end portion 57 of a lowermost portion of a press-contact sheet 8)<(a step (a height from the document table glass 2) d of a step 58a) is realized.
Claims2
An image reading apparatus which has a document table on which a document is placed and reads out an image of the document and which can be installed in such a manner that a surface of the document table is placed nearly vertically to an installation surface, comprising:
- a document cover which is disposed, in an openable manner, on an image reading apparatus main body, and has a pressing-contacting member which contacts with and presses a document that was placed on the document table;
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- a positioning section which is disposed with a step to the document table and carries out positioning of a document which is placed on the document table,
- wherein, in case that the document cover is opened to the image reading apparatus main body in such a condition that it was installed so as to be placed nearly vertically, a distance between an end portion on the side of the positioning section in the press-contact member and the document table is smaller than a height of the step of the positioning section to the document table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.