Image Reading Apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaru TAKEUCHI, Katsuro MIURA, Takashi FUJIWARA, Takayuki AKIMATSU
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus configured to read images of both surfaces of a document is provided. The image reading apparatus may include a first image reading device configured to read an image of a first surface of a document, a second image reading device configured to read an image of a second surface of the document, and a document conveying mechanism configured to convey the document from the second image reading device to the first image reading device. The first image reading device has a first reading range, and the second image reading device has a second reading range, which is smaller than the first reading range.
Claims12
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a first image reading device configured to read an image of a first surface of a first document, the first image reading device having a first reading range extending in a main scanning direction;
- a second image reading device configured to read an image of a second surface of the first document, the second image reading device having a second reading range extending in the main scanning direction, the second reading range being different from the first reading range;
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- a document conveying mechanism configured to convey the first document from the second image reading device to the first image reading device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.