Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Masamitsu Ishiyama

Toshikazu Suzuki

Nobuo Kanai

Tetsuo Kyogoku

Kazuyuki Yoshida

Masayuki Mino

Yuji Shintani

A reading apparatus of the invention has a high resolution reading part, a low resolution reading part, holding means for holding both the reading parts so as to be movable along a document, and means for selecting both the reading parts. The reading apparatus performs by one set of the apparatus total four modes of low resolution reading with respect to a light-impermeable document, high resolution reading with respect to the light-impermeable document, low resolution reading with respect to a large-sized light-permeable document, and high resolution reading with respect to a small-sized light-permeable document, such as a photographic film.

Reading apparatus

This invention relates to a photosensitive member for electrophotography with a photoconductive layer on an electrically conductive substrate and a surface protective layer on the photoconductive layer, wherein the surface protective layer comprises a ternary polymer of nylon or a multicomponent polymer of nylon having 10% or less in saturated degree of water absorption under 65% of relative humidity at 24.degree. C. The surface protective layer may have protuberances and hollows thereon. The surface protective layer may further comprises an inorganic layer on the photoconductive layer.

Photosensitive member for electrophotography comprising specified nylon

An image reading apparatus of the present invention enlarges and reads a small light-permeable document such as a photographic film. In the apparatus of the present invention, an image of a film is divided into strips and is projected on a part of a main-scanning direction of a line image sensor. The film is then moved in a direction corresponding to the main-scanning direction of the line image sensor, thereby reading the image of the whole area of the film.

Dual operational image reading apparatus

A document support member for use in a copier and the like upon which an original document is placed. A transparent substrate has a transparent surface-layer formed on the surface thereof which is provided with numerous minute spaces thereon. The said minute spaces are filled with a lubricant so as to reduce friction drag between the original document and the document support member.

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Osaka, Japan

Masamitsu Ishiyama