Patent ID: 8837020

Claim:
An image reading apparatus, comprising: a first housing; a second housing openable and closable with respect to the first housing; a document conveyance path arranged in the second housing and configured to convey a document so that the document passes through a first position on the first housing facing the second housing in a closed state; a transparent plate arranged in the first housing to face the second housing, the transparent plate including the first position and a second position adjacent to the first position and reconfigured to receive a fixed document placed on an upper surface of the transparent plate with a document surface of the fixed document faced toward the transparent plate; a reading unit extending in a main scanning direction intersecting with a conveying direction of the document in the first housing, the reading unit being movable in a sub scanning direction along the conveying direction of the document and configured to read an image of the document conveyed along the conveyance path passed the first position and to read the fixed document through the transparent plate at the second position; a guide member arranged on the transparent plate at a side downstream of the first position in the conveying direction of the document and configured to guide the document to a downstream side of the document conveyance path in the conveying direction; a transparent sheet member arranged on the transparent plate to cover the first position from an upstream side to a downstream side in the conveying direction; and a first pressing member on a side of the transparent sheet member opposite the transparent plate and upstream of the first position in the conveying direction, the first pressing member being configured to press the transparent sheet member toward the transparent plate; wherein an end portion of the first pressing member is arranged inwardly of an end portion of the transparent sheet member in the main scanning direction.