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US 6,721,072 B1Granted
Apparatus for scanning documents in front of a document plate
AssigneeMustek Systems Inc.
InventorsJenn-Tsair Tsai, Albert Lu, Emmet Chen
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Abstract
The present invention provides a scanning device. The scanning device comprises a document plate for placing a document, at least a sliding guide placed at one side of the document plate, a scanning module which is in front of the document plate for scanning the document along the direction of the sliding guide, a first light source assembled in the scanning module for providing light to scan documents, and a driving module electrically connected to the scanning module for driving the scanning module to perform scanning procedure to the document.
Claims10
A scanning device comprising:
- a housing;
- a document plate within the upper surface of said housing for placing a document;
- a first sliding guide outside of said housing mounted on said document plate;
- a scanning module outside of said housing, wherein one side of said scanning module is connected to said first sliding guide to be movable along the direction of said first sliding guide;
- a first light source assembled inside said scanning module for providing scan illumination;
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- a driving module, electrically connected to said scanning module for driving said scanning module to scan said document.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.