Medium conveyance apparatus
AssigneePfu Limited
InventorShingo Kanaya
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Abstract
A medium conveyance apparatus including a first unit on one side of a conveyance path of a sheet-shaped medium, a second unit on the other side of the conveyance path and facing the first unit, a guide unit that is provided at the second unit and that contacts the medium between the first and second unit to move the second unit in a direction of separating from the conveyance path, an imaging unit provided at one of the first and second unit, a reference plate whose image can be captured by the imaging unit and that is provided at the other of the first and second unit, and a detecting unit for detecting the medium in the conveyance path, the detecting unit being provided in the conveyance path at an upstream position of a reading position where the imaging unit reads the medium.
Claims5
A medium conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a first unit fixed on one side of a conveyance path of a sheet-shaped medium;
- a second unit provided on the other side of the conveyance path and facing the first unit;
- a guide unit that is provided at the second unit and that contacts the medium inserted into a gap between the first unit and the second unit to move the second unit in a direction of separating from the conveyance path;
- an imaging unit provided at one of the first unit and the second unit;
- a reference plate whose image can be captured by the imaging unit and that is provided at the other of the first unit and the second unit;
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- a detecting unit for detecting the medium conveyed in the conveyance path, the detecting unit being provided in the conveyance path at an upstream position of a reading position where the imaging unit reads the medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.