Patent ID: 7440150

Claim:
A flatbed scanner with a short border, the flatbed scanner comprising: a housing having a bottom, two sides, a front part and a back part; a glass plate fixed to the housing to form a scanning platform such that a scanning area of the flatbed scanner extends to the two sides; a front rib formed at a bottom face of the front part of the housing and extending downward; a back rib formed at a bottom face of the back part of the housing and extending downward, wherein an inner distance from the back rib to the front rib is not smaller than the length of the glass plate; and side ribs formed between the two sides of the housing and extending inward, wherein the height of the side ribs is under the bottom faces of the front part and the back part so as to form a fastening gap between the side ribs and the bottom face of the front part and between the side ribs and the bottom face of the back part; wherein the glass plate is inserted into the fastening gap, and a distance between the side ribs is smaller than a width of the glass plate so that the glass plate is held.