Image reading apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKAZUKI MATSUO
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus for reading an image on a sheet while conveying the sheet includes a conveyance mechanism configured to convey the sheet, a guide unit configured to be attachable and detachable with respect to a predetermined position of the image reading apparatus and to guide the sheet, and a detector configured to detect whether the guide unit is attached to the predetermined position.
Claims16
An image reading apparatus for reading an image on a sheet while conveying the sheet, the image reading apparatus comprising:
- a conveyance mechanism configured to convey the sheet;
- a guide unit configured to guide the sheet, the guide unit configured to be attachable and detachable with respect to a predetermined position of the image reading apparatus;
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- a detector configured to detect whether the guide unit is attached to the predetermined position.
An image reading apparatus for reading an image on a sheet while conveying the sheet, the image reading apparatus comprising:
- a conveyance mechanism configured to convey the sheet;
- a guide unit configured to be attachable and detachable with respect to the image reading apparatus, the guide unit configured to guide the sheet;
- a light unit including a light projection portion configured to project light toward the guide unit and a sensor portion configured to detect light projected by the light projection portion, and
- a control portion configured to perform a reading operation of reading the image on the sheet while conveying the sheet and configured to determine whether to perform the reading operation on the basis of a detection result of the sensor portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.