Invention Grant
US08699099B2 Document conveying device having clawed elastic portions and a support portion with a guide portion protruding downward between the elastic portions, image reading device including the document conveying device, and image forming apparatus
有权
带有弹性部分的文件传送装置和具有在弹性部分之间向下突出的引导部分的支撑部分,包括文件传送装置的图像读取装置和图像形成装置
- Patent Title: Document conveying device having clawed elastic portions and a support portion with a guide portion protruding downward between the elastic portions, image reading device including the document conveying device, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 带有弹性部分的文件传送装置和具有在弹性部分之间向下突出的引导部分的支撑部分,包括文件传送装置的图像读取装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13013152Application Date: 2011-01-25
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Publication No.: US08699099B2Publication Date: 2014-04-15
- Inventor: Naoto Miyakoshi
- Applicant: Naoto Miyakoshi
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP
- Priority: JP2010-071673 20100326
- Main IPC: H04N1/04
- IPC: H04N1/04

Abstract:
Provided is a document conveying device, including: a conveyance guide member which is capable of being opened upward and closed with respect to a contact glass, disposed facing the contact glass along a conveying direction of a document, and guides the document to an upper surface of the contact glass; a reading guide member which is disposed along a width direction of the document, movably supported in an up-and-down direction with respect to the conveyance guide member, and guides the document to a position facing an image reading region in the upper surface of the contact glass; a protruding portion which is protruded outward from at least one end portion of the reading guide member in the width direction; a support portion which is protruded outward from the conveyance guide member along the width direction above the protruding portion; and elastic portions which are protruded downward from the support portion and sandwich the protruding portion so that the protruding portion is movable in the up-and-down direction, each of the elastic portions having a tip end including a claw portion which engages with the protruding portion from below by snap-fitting so as to enable regulation of downward movement of the protruding portion.
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