Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Illuminating device, image reading apparatus including the illuminating device, and image forming apparatus including the image reading apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 照明装置,包括照明装置的图像读取装置和包括图像读取装置的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US14269992Application Date: 2014-05-05
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Publication No.: US08964264B2Publication Date: 2015-02-24
- Inventor: Yasuhiro Suto , Mitsuharu Yoshimoto , Tomohiko Okada , Hisashi Yamanaka , Shohichi Fukutome , Kenji Nakanishi
- Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2009-251251 20091030
- Main IPC: H04N1/04
- IPC: H04N1/04 ; F21V8/00 ; H04N1/028 ; G03B27/54 ; G03G15/00 ; H04N1/00 ; H04N1/10 ; H04N1/193

Abstract:
An illuminating device capable of stably illuminating an irradiated object such as a document while suppressing light loss with a simply structure is provided.An LED array (71) and a reflective plate (73) are disposed sandwiching a slit (St) through which light reflected by a document MS passes and a light-guiding member (72) is disposed on the side of the LED array (71). The light-guiding member (72) includes a direct emission unit (77) disposed between an illumination range y centered on a document reading position and the LED array (71) and an indirect emission unit (78) disposed between the reflective plate (73) and the LED array (71), a light incidence face of the direct emission unit (77) and a light incidence face of the indirect emission unit (78) are disposed at mutually different position around the LED array (71), and the LED array (71) is disposed on a side of an interior angle formed by the light incidence faces.
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