Canon Components, Inc.

Ryoki Matsui

Yoshihiko Tsumekawa

Suguru Tashiro

Hidemasa Yoshida

Shuuichi Shimoda

Hidehisa Takahashi

Junya Kinoshita

Akifumi Fujiwara

Takashi Chiba

Hidemasa Yosida

Yoshio Kureishi

An illumination apparatus, comprising a light source unit, a rod-shaped light guide configured to guide light from the light source unit and emit the light from a light emitting surface, a covering member configured to contain the light guide, and a housing configured to contain the light source unit, the light guide, and the covering member, the light guide including a protruded portion configured to suppress a shift in a longitudinal direction, the covering member including an opening, and the housing including a receiving portion configured to receive the protruded portion of the light guide, wherein the protruded portion of the light guide is engaged with the receiving portion of the housing via the opening of the covering member.

Illumination apparatus, reading apparatus, and printing apparatus

An image sensor unit includes: a light source; a rod-shaped light guide; a light condenser that condenses light from an illuminated object; and a frame. The frame includes: a light guide housing chamber that houses the light guide; a light condenser housing chamber that houses the light condenser; and a partition wall provided between the light guide housing chamber and the light condenser housing chamber. The light guide includes: a light incident surface that receives light emitted by the light source; a light diffusing surface that diffuses the light entered from the light incident surface; and an abutment surface abutted to one side of the partition wall, which covers at least a part of the abutment surface of the light guide, where an incident angle to the abutment surface of the light directly reaching the abutment surface from the light diffusing surface is smaller than a critical angle.

Image sensor unit, paper sheet distinguishing apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus

An image sensor unit includes: a plurality of light sources each including an LED chip; a plurality of light guides that are arranged in parallel to face incident surfaces on one side in a longitudinal direction for each of the plurality of light sources and that guide light from the plurality of light sources to a bill; an image sensor that converts light from the bill to an electric signal; a sensor substrate for mounting the image sensor; and a circuit board that is provided with the plurality of light sources on a same mounting surface and that is arranged on the sensor substrate on one side in the longitudinal direction of the plurality of light guides, wherein the sensor substrate includes a connection hole on one side in the longitudinal direction of the sensor substrate, and the circuit board is connected to the sensor substrate by connecting a connecting portion including a plurality of external connection pads to the connection hole.

Image sensor unit, image reading apparatus, and paper sheet distinguishing apparatus

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Ryoki Matsui