Patent ID: 8950749
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: B65H,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image reading apparatus, comprising: a sheet feed tray; a supply roller configured to rotate while being in contact with an original sheet placed on the sheet feed tray and to send out the original sheet one sheet by one sheet to a conveyance path; a conveyance unit including a first conveyance roller and a second conveyance roller and configured to convey, along the conveyance path, the original sheet that has been sent out by the supply roller to the conveyance path, the conveyance unit conveying the original sheet by using the first conveyance roller and the second conveyance roller in succession in this order; a discharged-sheet receiving unit, into which the original sheet that has been conveyed by the conveyance unit is discharged; an image reading unit disposed at a reading position along the conveyance path between the first conveyance roller and the second conveyance roller and configured to read an image, in a main scanning direction, from the original sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit at the reading position; and a control device configured to: