Patent ID: 8351096
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: C10B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image scanning unit, comprising: a translucent member having a flat face on which a document is contactingly transported; a transport unit to transport the document on the flat face of the translucent member while contacting the document against the translucent member; and a scan device to scan image information of the document transported by the transport unit at a scan position of the image scanning unit, fixedly disposed on a side of the translucent member opposite a side on which the document contacts the flat face of the translucent member and extending in a main scanning direction perpendicular to a transport direction of the document longer than a width of the document to be scanned, wherein the translucent member includes a convex portion extending in a main scanning direction to lift the document transported by the transport unit from the flat face of the translucent member as the document passes the convex portion, the scan device scans the document at the scan position when the document transported by the transport unit passes over the convex portion and is still lifted from the flat face of the translucent member by the convex portion,