US 2010/0245949 A1Published application

Image reading apparatus

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsSatoru NAKAKITA, Yoshinori OSAKABE

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Abstract

An image reading apparatus includes an image reading portion that moves in a predetermined direction and has an image reading sensor that reads an image on a sheet. A sheet feeder feeds the sheet. A first transparent member has a reference surface that supports the sheet thereon, and a second transparent member contacts the sheet fed by the sheet feeder. The image reading portion moves along a lower surface of the second transparent member, and the second transparent member is positioned to overlap a portion of the first transparent member as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the reference surface. The image reading portion moves along a lower surface of the first transparent member and moves along a lower surface of the second transparent member.

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Dependent claims

An image reading apparatus comprising:

an image reading portion configured to move in a predetermined direction, the image reading portion comprising an image reading sensor configured to read an image on a sheet;
a sheet feeder configured to feed the sheet;
a first transparent member having a reference surface configured to support the sheet thereon;
and
a second transparent member configured to contact the sheet fed by the sheet feeder, the image reading portion moving along a lower surface of the second transparent member, wherein the second transparent member is positioned such that a portion of the second transparent member overlaps a portion of the first transparent member as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the reference surface,
wherein the image reading portion is configured to move along a lower surface of the first transparent member and to move along a lower surface of the second transparent member.

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Facts

Application: 12/732,842Filed 26 Mar 2010
Priority: JP 2009-08666731 Mar 2009
Published: 30 Sep 2010
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Classification6 codes

H04N 1/1017
With sub-scanning by translatory movement of at least a part of the main-scanning components: the main-scanning components remaining positionally…
H04N 1/1065
Details relating to flat picture-bearing surfaces, e.g. transparent platen: support or mounting of the flat picture-bearing surface
H04N 1/12
Scanning arrangements , i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing…:…
H04N 1/1245
Feeding a sheet past a transparent plate; Details thereof: arrangements for mounting or holding the plate

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