Document reading apparatus
AssigneeFunai Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Itoi
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Abstract
A document reading apparatus has a slit along one side of a document support platen of a glass plate to insert one part of an opened book as a document to be read. An insertion pocket forming a recessed space contiguous with the slit and inclined diagonally is provided in the apparatus. A lid is operable between open and closed positions exposing and covering the slit. In the open position, one part of a book can be inserted into the slit with a page in the other part of the book being in intimate contact with the platen, while in the closed position, a sheet as a document can be placed at a proper position on the platen by contacting one side of the sheet to a rim of the lid. This apparatus prevents a problem of image deformation and black image in print output when reading the book.
Claims3
A document reading apparatus for reading a document, comprising:
- a housing;
- a document support platen formed of a transparent glass plate provided on an upper surface of the housing for supporting a document;
- a document reading unit provided under the document support platen in the housing for reading the document placed on the document support platen;
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- a slit opening into which one part of an opened book, as the document, can be inserted, and which is formed along and between one side of the housing and one side of the document support platen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.