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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2015
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kotaro Kurokawa, Ichinomiya, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes a first unit, which has a support surface and a first reading unit, and a second unit mounted to the first unit. The second unit includes a conveyor for conveying a sheet along a predetermined conveyance path, a feeder unit and a discharge unit. The conveyor includes a first conveyance roller and a separation piece. The first conveyance roller and the separation piece and the first reading unit stopped at a stop position are arranged at positions at which arrangement ranges thereof overlap with each other with respect to a direction parallel with the support surface and orthogonal to an axis line becoming a rotation center of the first conveyance roller, as seen from a direction parallel with the axis line of the first conveyance roller.