Image reading apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaru Takeuchi, Katsuro Miura, Takashi Fujiwara, Takayuki Akimatsu
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus configured to read images of both surfaces of a document is provided. The image reading apparatus may include a first image reading device configured to read an image of a first surface of a document, a second image reading device configured to read an image of a second surface of the document, and a document conveying mechanism configured to convey the document from the second image reading device to the first image reading device. The first image reading device has a first reading range, and the second image reading device has a second reading range, which is smaller than the first reading range.
Claims14
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a main unit including:
- a platen glass;
- and
- a first image reading device disposed below the platen glass;
- and
- a cover unit pivotally attached to the main unit, the cover unit including:
- a document tray configured to receive a document;
- a document conveying mechanism configured to convey the document received by the document tray in a document conveying direction;
- and
- a second image reading device configured to read an image of the document conveyed in the document conveying direction,
- wherein the first image reading device is configured to read an image of the document conveyed in the document conveying direction,
- wherein the first image reading device has a first reading range which has a first dimension extending in a main scanning direction perpendicular to the document conveying direction, and
- wherein the second image reading device has a second reading range which has a second dimension extending in the main scanning direction and being different from the first dimension of the first reading range of the first image reading device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.