US 11,991,326 B2
Image reading device with document pressing section
Tsuneo Kasai, Nagano (JP); and Ryo Yamaguchi, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/150,218.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-001474 (JP), filed on Jan. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0224417 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00806 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flat head type image reading device configured to scan a standard size document including an A4 size, the image reading device comprising:
a document pressing section pressing the standard size document and made of an elastic member, wherein
the document pressing section has fixing members,
the fixing members are arranged at positions corresponding to end portions of the standard size document, and
the fixing members include
a plurality of first fixing members arranged at uneven intervals relative to each other in a first direction of the document pressing section, and
a plurality of second fixing members arranged at uneven intervals relative to each other in a second direction of the document pressing section, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction.