US 12,088,766 B2
Reading apparatus with a displaceable cover member that covers a feed port
Ryuichi Sato, Shiojiri (JP); Kazuki Mano, Nagano (JP); and Kazuaki Takahashi, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/145,932.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-214263 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0231959 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00551 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00602 (2013.01)] 11 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; and
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, wherein
the cover member includes an opening and closing end portion upstream in a transport direction of the document fed from the document feeding port, the cover member being displaceable to the open position and to the closed position by having a first end that rotates about a rotating shaft and a second end that is opposite of the first end and that covers the document feeding port when the cover is in the closed position and that is separated from the document feeding portion when the cover is in the open position,
the housing includes a facing portion that is a portion facing a bottom surface of the opening and closing end portion when the cover member is at the closed position, and
a gap through which the document passes is formed between the facing portion and a part or a whole of the bottom surface of the opening and closing end portion when the cover member is at the closed position.