Scanner apparatus and information display system provided with the same
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhiro SUTO
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Abstract
A compact scanner apparatus is provided that is suitable for constituting an information display system by being stored in a pedestal which supports a display apparatus. The scanner apparatus is composed of an upper unit provided with an automatic document feeder and a lower unit provided with an image reading device, wherein a width guide rack mechanism having a function of detecting an original size is independent from a paper feed tray and disposed above the paper feed tray. Thereby, it is possible to store the paper feed tray and the whole of the width guide rack mechanism within the apparatus.
Claims7
A scanner apparatus comprising:
- an upper unit provided with an automatic document feeder including a paper feed tray in which a sheet original is stored so as to be stackable and a width guide rack mechanism having an original size detection function of detecting a size of the sheet original stacked on the paper feed tray;
- and
- a lower unit provided with an image reading device for reading an image of the sheet original transported from the automatic document feeder, wherein
- the width guide rack mechanism is provided above the paper feed tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.