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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2005
Naho Kurokawa, Inagi, JP;
Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Yokohama, JP;
Naho Kurokawa, Inagi, JP;
Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a technology which facilitates an operation for placing a document with a larger size than a size of a document table, on the document table. A document cover is positioned at a plurality of open positions to a document table. A pivot of a document tableand a hingeis configured by two pivots A, A, and a constricted portionand it is configured in such a manner that, in case of setting a document with a smaller size than that of the document table, the pivot Ais pivoted at a convex portionof the hinge, and in case of setting a document with a larger size than that of the document table, the convex portionis moved to the pivot Aside through the constricted portion, and the pivot Ais pivoted at the convex portion