Reading apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMamoru NAMBA, Tadanobu CHIKAMOTO, Genki HOSHINO, Hiroshi SHIOMI, Takashi OHAMA
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AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMamoru NAMBA, Tadanobu CHIKAMOTO, Genki HOSHINO, Hiroshi SHIOMI, Takashi OHAMA
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A reading apparatus, having a document tray, an ejection tray, a conveyer path connecting the document tray and the ejection tray and having a curved section, a conveyer to convey an original document in a conveying orientation, a first reading sensor, and a second reading sensor, is provided. The first reading sensor is located upstream in the conveying orientation from the curved section in the conveyer path. The first reading sensor optically reads a first side of the original document from below. The second reading sensor is located upstream in the conveying orientation from the first reading sensor in the conveyer path. The second reading sensor optically reads a second side of the original document from below. The first side and the second side are sides of the original document that face upward and downward, respectively, in the state where an original document is placed on the document tray.
A reading apparatus, comprising:
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