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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ayumu Oda, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Toshihiro Horiuchi, Nara, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ; G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399 92 ; 399177 ; 399211 ;
Abstract
A document-exposing and -scanning apparatus designed so that air is blown to act on air-receiving surfaces of an exposing and scanning device through an air duct device placed opposite thereto, to subject the exposing and scanning device to low-friction reciprocating motion in a levitated state, while directing the blown air to the optical scanning section to cool the entire document-exposing and -scanning apparatus.