Image reading apparatus with reading chamber having common insertion/ejection port for original
AssigneePfu Limited
InventorsMasanari Takabatake, Yuki Matsuda
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit that includes light receiving units arranged in two-dimensional array and reads an image on an original in two-dimensional directions, a cover portion that forms a reader chamber with the image reading unit, and a read-start instruction unit that instructs the image reading unit to start reading the image on the original when the original is inserted into the reader chamber. The reader chamber has a space for containing the original therein, and forms an original insertion/ejection port with the cover portion for inserting or ejecting the original therethrough.
Claims10
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- an image reading unit including a sensor panel that reads an image on an original in two-dimensional directions, the sensor panel including:
- a backlight,
- a transparent glass substrate laminated on the backlight,
- a plurality of light receiving units arranged in two-dimensional array at predetermined intervals and laminated on the glass substrate, and
- light-emitting portions arranged around respective one of the plurality of light receiving units;
- a cover portion that forms a reader chamber with the image reading unit, the reader chamber having therein a space for containing the original, and a common insertion/ejection port through which the original is inserted into and discharged from the reader chamber, wherein one end of the reader chamber opposite to another end having the common insertion/ejection port is closed;
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- a read-start instruction unit that instructs the image reading unit to start reading the image on the original when the original is inserted into the reader chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.