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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:
Feb. 08, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Assignee:
Mustek Systems, Inc., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358497 ; 355130 ;
Abstract
The present invention includes a housing for providing space to hold elements of the scanning system, a document holder is used for holding a document, which can be separated from the scanning system. Further, the document holder includes a transparent plate and a document cover. The document cover includes a memory alloy for covering a document and a rotatable rod. A plate having an opening for feeding the document holder into the scanning system. An image capturing device is set in the scanning system for capturing the image of the document. A pair of tracks are formed in the housing for holding the document holder.