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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2006
Takaaki Shirai, Nagoya, JP;
Takaaki Shirai, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An image reading apparatus that includes: a document delivering unit; a switchback delivering unit that pulls a document into a switchback delivery path extended to an opening formed on an external surface of an apparatus housing from a predetermined position of the document delivery path; an image reading unit that reads an image of the document delivered to a reading position of the document delivery path; and a control unit that delivers a document inserted into the opening of the switchback delivery path to the reading position by the switchback delivering unit and the document delivering unit, thereby reading an image in a second image reading operation to be carried out by temporarily stopping a first image reading operation.
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