Patent ID: 11956398
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An image reading device comprising:
a lens array including lenses that are sandwiched between two fixing plates extending along a main scanning direction and are arranged in an array along the main scanning direction;
a sensor element array including sensor elements to receive light converged by the lenses and being arranged in an array along the main scanning direction; and
an overlap preventer to prevent overlap of images formed by the lenses and being disposed between the lens array and the sensor element array, wherein
the overlap preventer is a slit section including a plurality of slit plates arranged in the main scanning direction and extending in a sub-scanning direction intersecting the main scanning direction to partition off a space,
the slit section includes fixing legs extending toward the lens array, and
the fixing legs are in contact with the fixing plates so that the slit section is fixed to the fixing plates.