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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideki Sueoka, Atsugi, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ; H04N 1/00 ; B65H 5/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ; H04N 1/00 ; B65H 5/06 ;
Abstract
A sheet guide in an image reading apparatus guides a sheet fed from a pair of rollers to a scanning point on a contact glass includes a pair of notched portions for bearing forces applied by at least one of the rollers, a sheet bearing portion for guiding the sheet fed by the rollers, wherein the image bearing portion guides the sheet fed out from the rollers to lower an angle incidence which the sheet forms with the contact glass. The sheet bearing edge is positioned toward a lower position of a nip between the rollers and changes the angle of incidence to become closer to horizontal with respect to the contact glass, than if the sheet were unguided.