- Patent Title: Image reading apparatus incliding an upper unit and a lower unit disposed vertically below the upper unit, the upper unit includes a feed tray configured to support a document fed at an incline of 45 degrees or more, a discharge tray supports a document discharged such that the document is inclined at an agle of 45 degrees or more, the lower unit includes a document positioning plate on which a document is mounted and a second reader
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Application No.: US17450739Application Date: 2021-10-13
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Publication No.: US11523014B2Publication Date: 2022-12-06
- Inventor: Hiroki Nakashima , Shinsuke Kogi , Tokujiro Okuno
- Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Workman Nydegger
- Priority: JPJP2020-174593 20201016
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00 ; H04N1/32 ; H04N1/04 ; H04N1/23

Abstract:
An upper unit includes a feed tray configured to support a document to be fed such that the document is inclined, a transport path configured to reverse the document fed in a direction having a vertically downward component by a feed tray in a direction having a vertically upward component, a first reader disposed on the transport path, and a discharge tray configured to support the discharged document such that the document is inclined. A lower unit includes a document positioning plate on which a document is mounted, and includes a second reader disposed vertically below the document positioning plate and configured to read the document mounted on the document positioning plate. A portion of the first reader and a portion of the document positioning plate overlap when viewed from vertically above.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220124209A1 IMAGE READING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2022-04-21
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