Patent ID: 8416474
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: B65H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A medium feed port of an image reading apparatus for feeding a medium to a conveyance path of the image reading apparatus, the medium feed port comprising: an opening into which the medium is to be inserted to be fed to the image reading apparatus in a medium feed direction; and an inclined surface provided at both ends of the opening in a width direction which crosses the medium feed direction, the inclined surface protruding increasingly toward an upstream side in the medium feed direction as an edge of the inclined surface on the upstream side in the medium feed direction advances toward a central part of the inclined surface from both ends of the inclined surface in the width direction, wherein the inclined surface is configured to form an acute abutting angle with a leading end of the medium on a downstream side in the medium feed direction.