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US 2012/0307318 A1Published application
Document reading apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakayuki Suga
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Abstract
A document reading apparatus includes a document positioning plate on which a document is placed, an image-forming unit configured to cause a light from the document to form an image, a reading unit configured to receive the light from the document which has passed through the image-forming unit, a supporting member for supporting the image-forming unit, a fixing member for fixing a reading element, and a frame member for holding the image-forming unit, the supporting member, the reading element and the fixing member.
Claims7
A document reading apparatus comprising:
- a document positioning plate on which a document is placed;
- an imaging unit;
- a reading unit configured to receive the light from the document which has passed through the imaging unit;
- a supporting member configured to support the imaging unit;
- a fixing member configured to fix a reading element;
- and
- a frame member configured to hold the imaging unit, the supporting member, the reading element and the fixing member,
- wherein the fixing member is fixed to the supporting member by a first fixing portion located in the vicinity of the reading unit, and fixed to the frame member by a second fixing portion at a position closer to an end portion side than a position of the first fixing portion, and
- wherein the second fixing portion has higher elasticity than that of the first fixing portion.
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A document reading apparatus comprising:
- a document positioning plate on which a document is placed;
- an imaging unit;
- a reading unit configured to receive the light from the document which has passed through the imaging unit;
- a supporting member configured to support the imaging unit;
- a fixing member configured to fix a reading element;
- and
- a frame member configured to hold the image-forming unit, the supporting member, the reading element and the fixing member,
- wherein the fixing member is firmly fixed to the supporting member by a first fixing portion located in the vicinity of the reading unit, and elastically fixed to the frame member by a second fixing portion at a position closer to an end portion side than a position of the first fixing portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.