Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Tetsurou Ishikawa

Teruhiko Kitamura

Tatsuya Nishi

Masashi Yamaguchi

Yoshihiro Taniike

Asako Chiba

Misato Nakayama

Sadayuki Kaneko

Ayumi Machida

Yoshinori Kanaya

Hiroshi Ito

Takashi Machida

Kazuhide Sugiyama

Masahiro Shirai

Hiroshi Komuro

Jun Tanaka

Taketo Ochiai

Shinobu Kato

Shigeru Ikezaki

Keiji Tsutaoka

Toshiya Sasaki

An apparatus includes a housing provided with a conveyance path, a conveyance unit which conveys a sheet along the conveyance path, a discharge port from which the sheet conveyed along the conveyance path is discharged, a discharge tray on which the sheet discharged from the discharge port is stacked, and an attitude change unit which changes an attitude of the discharge tray. The discharge tray includes a first sheet receiving surface which is a portion facing the discharge port in a discharge direction of the sheet and on which a leading edge of the sheet lands, and a second sheet receiving surface which is formed at a predetermined inclination with respect to the first sheet receiving surface. The attitude change unit changes the attitude of the discharge tray so that the first sheet receiving surface of the discharge tray is inclined toward the discharge port.

Sheet conveyance apparatus

Magnetic-ink printed character reader

An image reading apparatus according to the present invention comprises an image reading unit arranged on a conveying path of a first medium and reading an image on the first medium, a conveying unit conveying the first medium and a second medium to the image reading unit, a width of the second medium being smaller than the first medium, and guide portions guiding the second medium introduced from a discharge port along the conveying path.

Image reading apparatus and media conveying apparatus

Scanner

An image reading apparatus which is capable of performing accurate shading correction with simple arrangement while preventing a reference member from being scratched and preventing paper powder and the like dust from being deposited on the reference member. The image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit in which a contact glass guides an original on an image reading location. The contact glass is held by a glass holding member. A line image sensor reads the image on the original conveyed on the image reading location, through the contact glass. The image reading unit further includes a reference member whose image is readable by the image sensor, and a moving mechanism to move the image sensor so as to enable the image sensor to alternatively read the original and a reference surface of the reference member.

Image reading apparatus, image reading unit thereof, and reference member thereof for shading correction

An image reading apparatus capable of preventing the occurrence of a streak and reading a quality image from the leading edge to the trailing edge of a original. An original is conveyed along a convey pass. The original being conveyed is guided by a guide member, at least part of the guide member being transparent. An image of the original being conveyed is read by an image sensor through the guide member. Airflow is generated, the airflow being blown into the convey pass from a location upstream in a conveying direction compared to a location of the image sensor. The guide member has a convex portion disposed at a location upstream in the conveying direction compared to the location of the image sensor.

Image reading apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Tetsurou Ishikawa