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US 8,934,149 B2Granted
Image reader
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshinori Osakabe, Hiromi Tanaka
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Abstract
An image reader is provided, which includes a housing, a document table, a reading unit disposed between the housing and the document table and configured to read an image of a document sheet on the document table, and a carriage configured to hold the reading unit and move along a moving direction, the carriage including a protruding portion formed to protrude toward the reading unit, on a bottom surface of the carriage that faces a lower surface of the reading unit.
Claims16
An image reader comprising:
- a housing;
- a document table;
- a reading unit disposed between the housing and the document table and configured to read an image of a document sheet on the document table;
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- a carriage configured to hold the reading unit thereon and to move along a moving direction, the carriage comprising a protruding portion formed to protrude toward the reading unit from an upward-facing surface of the carriage, the upward-facing surface facing upwardly toward a lower surface of the reading unit.
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An image reader comprising:
- a housing;
- a document table;
- a reading unit disposed between the housing and the document table and configured to read an image of a document sheet on the document table;
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- a carriage configured to hold the reading unit thereon and to move along a moving direction, the carriage comprising a reflection reduction portion formed on an upward-facing surface of the carriage, the upward-facing surface facing upwardly toward a lower surface of the reading unit, the reflecting reduction portion configured to reduce an amount of light incident to the upward-facing surface of the carriage and reflected toward the reading unit.
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An image reader comprising:
- a housing having an opening;
- a document table configured to cover the opening of the housing;
- an image reading unit disposed between the document table and the housing, the image reading unit comprising:
- an image sensor unit configured to read an image of a document sheet on the document table in a main-scanning direction;
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- a carriage configured to hold the image sensor thereon and to move along a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main-scanning direction, the carriage comprising a surface that faces toward the document table and is formed with protrusions in a saw-tooth shape to prevent light incident through the document table from being reflected toward the image sensor unit, the protrusion extending upwardly toward the document table.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.