Image Reading Apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTomohiko GOTO
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus to convey a sheet to be scanned to an image reader unit is provided. the image reading apparatus includes a sheet tray, in which the sheet to be scanned is stored, a separator, which frictionally picks up the sheet from the sheet tray and conveys the picked-up sheet toward an entry side of the image reader unit, through which the sheet enters a position above the image reader unit, to have a first side of the sheet scanned by the image reader unit, and a resisting force applier, which applies convey-resisting force to the sheet, of which first side has been scanned, being returned to the entry side of the image reader unit to have a second side of the sheet with the convey resistance scanned by the image reader unit.
Claims8
An image reading apparatus, which is capable of conveying a sheet in a sheet-conveying path along an image reader unit in a predetermined sheet-conveying direction to scan a first side of the sheet passing by the image reader unit and returning the passed-by sheet to the image reader unit to scan a second side of the sheet after scanning the first side of the sheet, comprising:
- a sheet tray, in which the sheet to be scanned is stored;
- a separator, which is configured to frictionally pick up the sheet from the sheet tray and convey the picked-up sheet toward an entry side of the image reader unit, through which the sheet enters a position above the image reader unit, to have the first side of the sheet scanned by the image reader unit;
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- a resisting force applier, which is configured to apply convey-resisting force to the sheet, of which first side has been scanned, being returned to the entry side of the image reader unit to have the second side of the sheet with the convey resistance scanned by the image reader unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.