US 11,856,165 B2
Image reading device, recording device, and control method for image reading device
Satoshi Nakata, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/168,929.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-022709 (JP), filed on Feb. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0262180 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00631 (2013.01) 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image reading device comprising:
a reading portion configured to read an image of a document;
a document placement portion on which a document before reading is placed;
a discharge portion configured to discharge the document for which reading is completed by the reading portion;
a document receiving portion configured to receive the document discharged by the discharge portion;
a transport path configured to transport the document from the document placement portion to the document receiving portion via the reading portion; and
a control portion configured to control the reading portion and the discharge portion, wherein
the document receiving portion has a first region that overlaps the document placement portion when seen in a vertical direction, and a second region that does not overlap the document placement portion when seen in the vertical direction, and
the discharge portion discharges the document so that at least part of the document is placed on the second region.