Patent ID: 6515773
Filing Date: 2003-02-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus including a frame forming an original transport path for transporting an original having images thereon and an image read scanner having a rectangular parallelepiped shape with a read surface for reading the images on the original, the image scanner being disposed at a midpoint of the original, the image scanner being disposed at a midpoint of the original transport path, the image reading apparatus further including:a scanner setting part for holding therein the image read scanner, the scanner setting part being formed in a concave shape perpendicular to the original transport path in the frame, the scanner setting part having a bottom wall and side walls; a first urging member for urging an opposite surface of the image read scanner to the read surface toward the read surface side, the first urging member being disposed on the bottom wall of the scanner setting part; and contact members formed in both ends of the scanner setting part, the contact members being made in contact with the read surface in both ends of the image read scanner set in the scanner setting part by an urging force of the first urging member; wherein the scanner setting part includes an open part in which no bottom wall exists below one of the contact members.