Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Koki Takasaki

Kazuki Nishimura

Hideki Matsui

Daisuke Fukui

Hironobu Arimoto

Kazuya Makabe

Toshiyuki Sawabe

Lens arrays of an image reading device in which lens bodies are arranged in a main scanning direction are connected with a gap therebetween. A plurality of first slit portions and a plurality of second slit portions are provided along the main scanning direction between the lens arrays and an image sensor. The first slit portion includes first light shielding plates that separate optical paths of light passed through the lens bodies. The second slit portion includes the first light shielding plates and a second light shielding plate that restricts an optical path of light passed through a lens body closest to the gap at a gap side. The position of the second light shielding plate in a direction along the optical path at the image sensor side is closer to the lens arrays than the first light shielding plates are.

Image reading device

The present disclosure relates to an image reading device having a highly-accurate structure that enables an easy increase in depth of field, that is, improvement in the depth of the field, without need for a change in basic characteristics of lenses. An overlap preventer () disposed between a lens array () and a sensor element array () to prevent overlap of images formed by lenses () is included. A slit section () that is the overlap preventer () includes multiple slit plates () arranged in a main scanning direction and extending in a sub-scanning direction to partition off a space, and the slit plates () are fixed to fixing plates ().

Image reading device having an overlap preventer with slit plates

An illumination device and an image reading device are characterized by including: a rod-shaped light guide extending in a longitudinal direction and configured to guide light entering from an exterior and emit the light as linear light from a lateral surface; a light guide holding portion having a hole into which an end surface of the light guide is inserted; a supporter supporting the light guide holding portion slidably along the longitudinal direction; and a housing supporting or housing the light guide, the light guide holding portion and the supporter, at least the supporter being fixed to the housing, a direction of sliding of the light guide holding portion being restricted to the longitudinal direction by a supporter-side concave-convex portion that is a supporter-side groove portion or a supporter-side protruding portion at least one of which is formed on the supporter along the longitudinal direction.

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Tokyo, Japan

Koki Takasaki