US 11,838,470 B2
Reading apparatus, control method of reading apparatus, and complex machine
Motofumi Otani, Matsumoto (JP); Kazumitsu Fujimori, Tama (JP); and Satoru Miyamoto, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/145,581.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-214264 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0208992 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00814 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00551 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A reading apparatus, comprising:
a reading part configured to read information of a document;
a housing configured to accommodate the reading part;
a document feeding port formed at an upper surface of the housing to feed the document therethrough;
a cover member that is disposed at the housing and is displaceable to an open position at which the document feeding port is open and to a closed position at which the document feeding port is closed;
a drive source configured to displace the cover member to the open position and to the closed position;
a position detection mechanism configured to detect a position of the cover member; and
a control part, wherein
the control part is configured to cause the drive source to displace the cover member to the open position and to the closed position, and when a time during which the reading part does not perform reading exceeds a predetermined time, and when the position detection mechanism detects that the cover member is at the open position, the control part causes the drive source to displace the cover member to the closed position.