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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2007
Takayuki Sugiyama, Utsunomiya, JP;
Tadao Hayashide, Utsunomiya, JP;
Toshio Takahashi, Toda, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image reading apparatus including a light source for illuminating an original, a plurality of mirrors for reflecting a light beam from the original illuminated by the light source, a reading device, an imaging optical system for imaging a light beam reflected by the mirrors, upon the reading device, and a scanning optical system unit which integrally accommodates theses components therein and moves in a sub-scan direction to read imagewise information of the original, wherein, in a sub-scan section, one mirror optically closest to the surface of the original is disposed in an end portion of the scanning optical system unit in the sub-scan direction, as compared with the other mirrors, and wherein the central portion of the reflection surface of one mirror optically closest to the original is disposed in a space between the central portion of the reflection surface of a mirror optically closest to the light entrance surface of the imaging optical system and central portions reflection surfaces of other mirrors.