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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2007
Masataka Hamada, Minamikoma-gun, JP;
Kazuhisa Mochizuki, Minamikoma-gun, JP;
Seiji Nishizawa, Minamikoma-gun, JP;
Masataka Hamada, Minamikoma-gun, JP;
Kazuhisa Mochizuki, Minamikoma-gun, JP;
Seiji Nishizawa, Minamikoma-gun, JP;
Nisca Corporation, Minamikoma-gun, JP;
Abstract
Document feeder and image capturing device preventing empty stamping associated with improper positioning of printing unit. Document feeder A, conveying document originals from a document placement location, along a predetermined conveyance path (), and to a document information-capturing location (), is furnished with: a printing unit (), which is shiftable along the document widthwise direction approximately orthogonal to the document conveyance direction, and is for carrying out predetermined printing onto conveyed documents; and a detection unit (S), provided in the conveyance path further upstream in the conveyance direction than the printer unit (), that detects whether a conveyed document will pass inside the limits of the range in which the printer unit () prints.