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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hikaru Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Kawanishi, Yokohama, JP;
Takashi Awai, Chiba, JP;
Toshihide Wada, Yokohama, JP;
Makoto Takemura, Tokyo, JP;
Haruo Ishizuka, Ichikawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reading apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read a document, a feeding tray on which the document to be read by the reading unit is stacked, a feeding roller that feeds the document from the feeding tray to a position where the document is read by the reading unit, a feeding pressure plate that presses the document against the feeding roller so that the document is pinched between the feeding roller and the feeding pressure plate, and a discharge roller that discharges the document read by the reading unit to underneath the feeding pressure plate, wherein a position of the discharge roller moves depending on a number of documents pinched between the feeding roller and the feeding pressure plate.