Abstract:
An image reader for optically reading an image on an original and an image sensor unit for mounting to the image reader. The image sensor unit is provided with a shaft used for rotatably mounting the image sensor unit to an image sensor unit holding member of the image reader. This reduces the size of the image reader.
Abstract:
An improved guiding mechanism is disclosed for slidable movement of carriers in an image processor having guide means provided internally of a main body of the image processor on which the carriers are slidably moved to scan an original and thereby read an image represented on the original. A synthetic resin is employed to form both a top surface of the guide means and surfaces of the carriers destined to come in contact with the guide means in order to minimize vibration otherwise generated by the carriers during their slidable movement. A housing for the image processor is provided on transversely opposite side walls with guide means on which a guide plate made of lubricating synthetic resin is laminated. Pedestals mounted on legs and of the respective carriers and so as to come in contact with the guide means, are made of oleo-synthetic resin such as oleo-polyacetal. The carriers are slidably moved with the help of the contact between the surfaces made of synthetic resin which generate a frictional force substantially lower than the case in which the carriers are slidably moved on a surface made of metallic material. In this way, the carriers can be smoothly moved without vibration.
Abstract:
A contact image sensor module having a plurality of spring mountings is provided to allow the CIS module contact tightly with the bottom surface side of the sheet table. The spring mountings are made of spring steel so that they are soft and elastic enough to support the CIS module. The spring mountings are engaged to the CIS module in a manner that ear-shaped spring steel plates are formed to rest on the side walls of the carriage for absorbing the shock of the CIS module. When conveyed by a carriage, the present invention can be adapted to any flatbed scanner having either a single guiding device or a pair of guiding device.
Abstract:
The film holder comprises a plurality of holder elements. Adjacent holder elements are connected to each other by a pin, so that the holder elements can be pivoted. A film engaging groove is formed on a side of each of the holder elements. The film engaging grooves are aligned with each other such that a peripheral edge of the film is engaged. The holder elements being rotatable while the film engaging grooves maintain a curvilinear alignment, allows the film to be smoothly curved, and the size of the image reading device, to which the film holder is mounted, to be reduced.
Abstract:
Apparatus for scanning a light beam over an image surface includes a carriage assembly, including structure for directing a light beam over the image surface. A pad assembly, which is rotatably mounted to the carriage assembly, includes a pad surface. A slideway engages the pad surface to support the carriage. In use, a drive force is applied to the pad assembly so that the pad surface slides along the slideway in a given direction of movement as the light beam scans the image surface. A rotational force is applied to the pad assembly to cause the pad surface to pitch back on the slideway relative to the given direction of movement.
Abstract:
A contact image sensor is received and held in a holder slidably mounted on a rectangular lower frame and is disposed in parallel to the two short sides of the lower frame to pick up the image of a detection object placed on the transparent plate mounted on a rectangular upper frame. A rod-like guiding member having two ends respectively mounted on the center of the two short sides of the lower frame, disposed orthogonal to the longitudinal holder, for guiding the movement of the holder is provided. A connecting member slidably mounted on the guiding member and detachably connected to the holder near the center thereof is provided. A biasing member for biasing the holder upwardly, disposed between the connecting member and the holder is also provided.
Abstract:
A flat bed scanner of the type commonly used as a stand-alone computer peripheral in combination with a contact image sensor module, the glass cover of which is removed and the module placed under the glass surface of a flat bed scanner and which extends the full width of the scanning area to provide a 1:1 scanning ratio using a rod lens to focus the image onto the image sensors, with a monorail carriage for the scanner and including low friction strips to prevent tipping of the module into the glass, paper sensors to control the beginning and end of the scanning and for accomplishing scanning in both directions.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for automated loading and unloading of a cylinder in an engraver. The method and apparatus permit the engraver to accommodate cylinders of differing geometries, including a range of lengths, diameters and mounting configurations. The engraver includes a headstock and a tailstock which cooperate to rotatably support a cylinder at an engraving station in the engraver. The engraver includes a cylinder handling system having at least one cylinder supporting the cylinder between the headstock and the tailstock during the loading and unloading of the cylinder. The cylinder handling system includes a driver for driving the cylinder support towards and away from the engraving station until the headstock and the tailstock engage and rotatably support the cylinder. Once the cylinder is rotatably supported between the headstock and the tailstock, then the cylinder support is retracted. The cylinder support includes a telescoping support member having a support nest for engaging and supporting the cylinder at the engraving station.
Abstract:
A rotatable image-mounting drum for use in a scanner or plotter. The drum has an end for permitting the releasable attachment of the drum to the scanner's or plotter's supporting and turning means. The drum's image-mounting surface and the drum's attachment end are preferably made of the same material, preferably acrylic. The attachment end of the drum includes a disk at the end of the drum, which has an opening or openings passing from its outer face to its inner face. The other end of the drum preferably is not attached directly to the rest of the scanner. The plotter's or scanner's mechanism for releasably attaching the rotatable drum includes a drum mount rotatable by a motor. A clasp stem, passing through a drum-mount opening, has a clasp finger rigidly attached thereto. A cam surface, having a varying elevation, can be rotated so as to push the cam stem through the drum-mount opening. A spring urges the stem against the cam surface. As the cam surface is rotated with respect to the drum mount, the distance between the finger and the drum mount's exterior side varies. The finger can pass through the opening in the attachment end of the drum, and the drum may be clasped between the finger and the drum mount's exterior side.
Abstract:
A support device for supporting on a guide shaft a travel assembly moving along the guide shaft, comprising at least two sliding bearings equipped with V shaped grooves, and separate bearings disposed opposite the respective sliding bearings across the guide shaft. The support device supports the travel assembly on the guide shaft by pinching the guide shaft between the sliding bearings and the separate bearings.