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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1997
Naohiro Iwata, Yokosuka, JP;
Minoru Yokoyama, Yokohama, JP;
Yuji Nakano, Kawasaki, JP;
Shunji Kawashima, Wako, JP;
Hideyuki Terashima, Sagamihara, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet conveying apparatus and an original reading apparatus according to the present invention can reduce a load of a drive system for rotating a convey rotary member and can be made compact. The apparatus includes an original convey roller rotatably supported by a frame, and a contact sensor holder rockably held by a contact sensor rotation shaft regulated in a thickness-wise direction of an original by a contact sensor holder rotation shaft holding portion of the frame and adapted to hold a second contact sensor in a confronting relation to the original convey roller. The second contact sensor is urged against the original convey roller by an urging spring.