US 7,548,351 B2
Image reading device and image forming apparatus
Yusuke Imai, Toride (Japan); Toshifumi Itabashi, Toride (Japan); Kiyoshi Oyama, Tokyo (Japan); Takuma Koizumi, Toride (Japan); Ayumu Murakami, Abiko (Japan); Yuichi Yamamoto, Toride (Japan); and Haruhisa Oshida, Abiko (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/614,285.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-376415 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0146824 A1, Jun. 28, 2007
Int. Cl. H04N 1/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—474  [358/497; 358/482; 358/496] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image reading device having a reader part for reading an image on an original, wherein said reader part comprises:
a substrate formed thereon with a light-emitting layer that emits light, and a light-receiving layer on which a plurality of optical sensors are arranged,
wherein said reader part is mounted in the image reading device such that said reader part is woundable for stowing.