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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Inventor:
Tatsuya Shinno, Toyokawa, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 15/02 (2006.01); H04N 1/10 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/193 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/10 (2013.01); G03G 15/602 (2013.01); H04N 1/00909 (2013.01); H04N 1/12 (2013.01); H04N 1/193 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0081 (2013.01);
Abstract
A document reading apparatus includes a conveyance unit for conveying a document and a reading unit for reading an image of a document. In the document reading apparatus, the reading unit includes a platen glass. The conveyance unit allows a cleaning member of a cleaning roller to start contact with the front end in a conveyance direction of a document, on the platen glass, upstream in the conveyance direction from a reading position.