Title:
An image reader and an image forming device
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP6056218
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
An image reading device includes: a feeding unit; a carriage for holding and moving a reading unit; a motor-side transmission gear for transmitting a power from a motor; a feeding unit-side transmission gear for transmitting the power to the feeding unit; a carriage-side transmission gear for transmitting the power to the carriage; a switching gear switched between a carriage-side position where the motor-side and the carriage-side transmission gears are coupled and a feeding unit-side position where the motor-side and the feeding unit-side transmission gears are coupled; and a control unit for performing: a prediction process of predicting whether a feeding unit read mode will be executed before receiving a reading start instruction; and a switching process of switching the switching gear to the feeding unit-side position when the feeding unit mead mode is predicted to be executed.
Inventors:
Yukinori Miyamoto
Application Number:
JP2012147402A
Publication Date:
January 11, 2017
Filing Date:
June 29, 2012
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Brother Industries, Ltd.
International Classes:
G03B27/50; H04N1/10; H04N1/00; H04N1/107
Domestic Patent References:
| JP8139855A | ||||
| JP2003307787A |