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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2009
Shoji Yoshida, Kahoku, JP;
Hideaki Shibata, Kahoku, JP;
Yasuhiro Matsuda, Kahoku, JP;
Masaaki Yamashita, Kahoku, JP;
Shoji Yoshida, Kahoku, JP;
Hideaki Shibata, Kahoku, JP;
Yasuhiro Matsuda, Kahoku, JP;
Masaaki Yamashita, Kahoku, JP;
PFU Limited, Ishikawa, JP;
Abstract
A scanner device includes a scanner body formed with a document insertion opening and a document ejection opening and is configured so that a document taken in from the document insertion opening is read and then ejected from the document ejection opening. The scanner device further includes an upper surface cover covering the upper surface of the scanner body and a front surface cover covering the front surface of the scanner body. The front cover is connected at a lower end side thereof to the lower front part of the scanner body and connected at an upper end side thereof to pivotably connected to the front end side of the upper surface cover. By opening the front surface cover from the front surface of the scanner body, the upper surface cover and front surface cover form a document ejection tray.