IMAGE READING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a size-reduced image reading apparatus. SOLUTION: The image reading apparatus employs two light sources that are surface light emitters made by forming a light-emitting layer on a transparent substrate. The two light sources are so mounted over the document surface at a specific angle formed with the document surface that they are a certain distance away from each other and bilaterally symmetrical. A fiber lens formed of a plurality of bundles of optical fibers is mounted in the gap between the two surface light emitters. Further, the surface light emitters are placed in contact with at least the lens or the document surface.