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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2012
Hidemasa Yoshida, Saitama, JP;
Tomoyuki Horiguchi, Saitama, JP;
Akifumi Fujiwara, Saitama, JP;
Hidehisa Takahashi, Saitama, JP;
Shuuichi Shimoda, Saitama, JP;
Hidemasa Yoshida, Saitama, JP;
Tomoyuki Horiguchi, Saitama, JP;
Akifumi Fujiwara, Saitama, JP;
Hidehisa Takahashi, Saitama, JP;
Shuuichi Shimoda, Saitama, JP;
Canon Components, Inc., , JP;
Abstract
An image sensor unit has a light emitting module and a light guide that guides light emitted by the light emitting module to a bill, the light guide has an incident surface on which the light emitted by the light emitting module is incident, a reflection surface that reflects the light having entered the light guide through the incident surface, and an emission surface from which the light reflected by the reflection surface is emitted toward the bill, and the reflection surface is formed by a plurality of contiguous flat surfaces.