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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shigeru Kida, Nara, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01J 2/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01J 2/700 ;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to enable manufacturing at low cost and to suppress blooming in providing an image reading apparatus using a contact image sensor. A two-piece backing plate divided into two parts in a main scanning direction of a CIS (perpendicular to the direction of movement of an original) is disposed to be opposite to the CIS. The original is advanced between the two-piece backing plate and CIS.