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AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHisashi Yamanaka, Mitsuharu Yoshimoto, Kenji Nakanishi, Yasuhiro Suto, Shohichi Fukutome, Masahiro Imoto
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An image reader is provided, in its housing, with a first scanning unit made up of an LED array of a plurality of LED elements that are arranged in a row in the horizontal scanning direction and that emit light to a document. An air intake port and an air exhaust port are disposed on the housing of the image reader. An imaginary line of an air flow path coupling the air intake port and the air exhaust port to one another is configured to pass adjacent a center of the LED array of the first scanning unit in the horizontal scanning direction with the first scanning unit stopped at a reading position of the document transferred by a document transfer device.
An image reader comprising a light source unit comprising light sources comprising a plurality of light emitting devices that are arranged in a row in a horizontal scanning direction and that are configured to emit light to a document,
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