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Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2017
Applicant:

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Inventor:

Takaaki Murase, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/028 (2006.01); H04N 1/10 (2006.01); H04N 1/113 (2006.01); H04N 1/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/02885 (2013.01); H04N 1/0301 (2013.01); H04N 1/1013 (2013.01); H04N 1/1056 (2013.01); H04N 1/113 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0081 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0414 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0458 (2013.01);
Abstract

A reading module has a light source, an optical system imaging, as image light, reflected light of the light radiated from the light source to the document, and a sensor converting the image light imaged by the optical system into an electrical signal. The optical system has a mirror array in which reflection mirrors are coupled together in an array in the main scanning direction and an aperture stop portion having a first aperture adjusting the amount of image light reflected from a reflection mirror and a second aperture shielding stray light that enters the first aperture from an adjacent reflection mirror. The second aperture is arranged at such a position as to be able to shield stray light passing through a boundary between the reflection mirrors and the center of the first aperture when the mirror array contracts to the maximum extent in the main scanning direction.


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