JP3303714B2 - Image recording device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an image recording apparatus having a function of reading an original image, recording the original image on a recording medium, and displaying the image on a display unit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An apparatus called an electronic file system is known as an image recording apparatus as described above.

[0003] This is an image reading device for reading a document image, a recording device for recording a read image on a recording medium, a soft copy display device for displaying a read image or a recorded image, and further reproducing those images on paper or the like. It comprises a hard copy forming output device to be formed, an operation board for operating a group of these devices, and the like.

Such a device is effective as a system device for storing, managing, retrieving and utilizing a large amount of various documents in an office or the like.

[0005]

The conventional practical use of this type of image recording apparatus is relatively large, and there has been a demand for miniaturization as much as possible and improvement in operability of the apparatus.

[0006] It is an object of the present invention to meet this need.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is an image recording apparatus having the following configuration.

(1) Document transport means for transporting a sheet-shaped document from a document placement paper feed section to a document discharge section, image reading means for reading an image of the fed document, and recording the read image on a recording medium Recording means, and an image recording apparatus provided with an image display surface arranged on the front side of the apparatus, and an image display means for displaying a read image or a recorded image,
A space is provided below the image display means, with the front side of the apparatus opened as an opening, and a space recessed toward the back of the apparatus is provided. The depth dimension of the loading paper feeding unit is set to be at least half the dimension of the maximum size sheet-form document that can be fed to the apparatus in the document transport direction, and the ceiling side of the space is provided with the image display means. a line connecting the tip of the original placed on the device front wall lower end and the document placing置給paper part provided, that the image display surface and the angle formed of the image display means is set to be obtuse An image recording apparatus characterized by the following.

(2) The image recording apparatus according to (1), wherein an image display surface of the image display means is obliquely upward.

(3) The lower end of the front wall of the apparatus provided with the image display means is located above the original placing and feeding section at a position substantially corresponding to the front end of the original placing and feeding section. The image recording apparatus according to (1) or (2), wherein

(4) The image recording apparatus according to any one of (1) to (3), wherein a touch panel for operating the apparatus is provided on an image display surface of the image display means.

(5) The image recording apparatus according to any one of (1) to (4), wherein the image display means is a liquid crystal display device.

(6) The image recording apparatus according to any one of (1) to (5), wherein a document discharge section is provided above the image display means.

(7) The image recording apparatus according to any one of (1) to (6), wherein the image reading means is a photoelectric reading means.

(8) The recording means according to any one of (1) to (7), wherein a recording medium is detachable, and the recording medium is detached from the front side of the apparatus. Image recording device.

(9) The image recording apparatus according to any one of (1) to (8), wherein the recording means is a magneto-optical recording apparatus.

(10) An image recording apparatus according to any one of (1) to (8), further comprising a hard copy forming output means for reproducing and forming the read image or the recorded image on paper or the like. .

(11) The image recording apparatus according to (10), wherein the output hard copy is taken out from the front side of the apparatus.

(12) The hard copy forming and outputting means is a laser beam printer.
The image recording apparatus according to (0) or (11).

(13) A recording device is provided below the document placing and feeding section, and a hard copy forming output device is provided below the recording device. The image recording device according to one of the above.

(14) Document transport means for transporting a sheet-shaped document from a document placement paper feed unit to a document discharge unit, image reading means for reading an image of the fed document, and recording the read image on a recording medium Recording means, and an image recording apparatus provided with an image display surface disposed on the front side of the apparatus, and an image display means for displaying a read image or a recorded image. Is opened as an opening, and a space recessed toward the back of the apparatus is provided, and a document placing table is disposed at the bottom of the space, and the image display surface is located directly above the document placing table. The document mounting table is disposed at a position recessed from the front of the apparatus, and the space portion is formed such that a document leading end receiving portion of the document mounting table can be viewed from a position where the image display surface is observed. Image recording device.

<Operation> A space is provided below the image display means, which is opened with the front side of the apparatus as an opening, and is recessed in the back side of the apparatus. The depth dimension of the paper feeding unit is set to be at least half the dimension of the largest size sheet-form document that can be fed to the apparatus in the document transport direction, and the image display means is provided on the ceiling side of the space. and the device front wall lower end and the document placing置給line connecting the original tip placed on the feeding unit (phantom), and sets the image display surface and the angle formed of the image display unit such that the obtuse angle Thus, the space portion becomes a wedge-shaped space in which the ceiling surface is inclined downward in the depth direction of the device and the front surface of the device is largely open, and the space is located at a position where the image display surface of the image display means is viewed. Almost the entire area of the document loading and feeding section, which is located at the bottom of the Look without cause is.

Therefore, at the position where the image display surface of the image display means is viewed, the original placing and feeding section can be seen without changing the posture, and the original feeding state and the like can be easily recognized. The document can be placed and set on the paper feeding unit, and the operability is good.

By setting the depth of the document placing / feeding unit to be at least half the size of the maximum size sheet-like document that can be fed to the apparatus in the document transport direction, the maximum size document can be used. In this case, the protrusion on the front side of the apparatus can be reduced, and the operability is good. Further, the size of the device can be reduced.

[0025] By providing a touch panel for operating the device on the image display surface of the image display means, the device can be operated by the touch panel without changing the posture at the position where the image display surface of the image display means is viewed, so that operability is good. Further, the size of the device can be reduced. By using a liquid crystal display device as the image display means, the size of the device can be further reduced.

[0026] By providing the document discharge section above the image display means, the position of the document discharge section can be seen at the position where the image display surface of the image display means is viewed, and the document discharge state can be easily recognized. The document discharged to the document discharge section can be removed, and the operability is good. Further, the size of the device can be reduced.

[0027] By providing a touch panel for device operation on the image display surface of the image display means, and by providing a document discharge section above the image display means, at the position where the image display surface of the display means is viewed, without changing the posture, The operability is good because the operation of the apparatus using the touch panel, the work of placing and setting the document on the document placing and feeding section, and the work of removing the document discharged to the document discharge section can be performed.

[0028] The operability is also improved by adopting a device configuration in which the recording medium of the recording means is attached to and detached from the front side of the apparatus, and the output hard copy of the hard copy formation output means is taken out from the front side of the apparatus.

[0029]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an image recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view, and FIG.

The image recording apparatus of the present embodiment is an electronic file system apparatus, which is a floor type which is installed on the floor and used for standing work. The apparatus is provided with various functions required as an electronic file system apparatus. It is configured as a stand-alone device that can function independently without connecting to the device.

A is an upper device, B is a lower device,
The upper device section A is mounted on the lower device section B and integrally assembled with the lower device section B. The entire upper and lower device units A and B are vertically elongated devices having a height dimension of about 130 to 150 cm. The casters C disposed on the lower surface of the lower device B can be moved on the floor F, and the casters C can be locked to be stably placed on the floor.

As shown in FIG. 3, a document placing and feeding section 1 for stacking and setting sheet-form documents S and feeding them one by one in the upper device section A, and one sheet from the document placing and feeding section 1 Document transporting means 2 for transporting the separately fed document to document discharging unit 3, image reading means 4 for reading the image of the transported document, and image reading surface 5a provided with the image display surface 5a on the front side of the apparatus. Or, it is provided with an image display means 5 for displaying a recorded image, an electric unit 6 including a printed board for controlling a power supply and a device, and the like. Details will be described later.

In the lower device section B, a magneto-optical recording device 8 in this embodiment as recording means and a laser beam printer 9 in this embodiment as hard copy forming and outputting means are vertically built therein. . Since the configurations of the magneto-optical recording device 8 and the laser beam printer 9 are known, their description is omitted.

Reference numeral D denotes a magneto-optical disk as a recording medium which is attached to and detached from the magneto-optical recording device 8. The magneto-optical disk is inserted from a magneto-optical disk insertion port 8 a provided on the upper side of the front panel of the lower device B to the lower device B. It is attached to and detached from the internal magneto-optical recording device 8.

Reference numeral 9a denotes a printer output paper discharge port disposed on the lower side of the front panel of the lower device section B, and a device for taking out an output hard copy of the laser beam printer 9 provided in the lower device section B from the front side of the apparatus. It has a configuration.

In the upper device section A (FIG. 3), a liquid crystal display device is used as the image display means 5 in this embodiment.
The liquid crystal display device 5 is disposed on the front side of the upper device section A with the image display surface 5a facing obliquely upward. Specifically, in this example, the angle θ1 formed by the image display surface 5a with respect to the vertical line a is set to about 15 °, and the image display surface 5a is disposed obliquely upward.

In this embodiment, the liquid crystal display device 5 is used.
Is provided with a touch panel 7 for operating the apparatus on the image display surface 5a.

Below the liquid crystal display device 5, there is provided a space 10 which is opened with the front side of the device as an opening and is recessed toward the back of the device. 1 is set, and the depth dimension b of the document placing / feeding unit 1 is set to be at least half the dimension of the maximum size sheet-form document S that can be fed to the apparatus in the document transport direction. Example: A4 size original, vertical feed)
The ceiling side of 0 is a line d connecting the lower end c of the front surface of the apparatus provided with the liquid crystal display device 5 and the leading end of the document S placed on the document placing and feeding section 1, and the image display of the liquid crystal display device 5. The angle θ2 formed by the surface 5a was set to be an obtuse angle.

The lower end c of the front wall of the apparatus provided with the liquid crystal display device 5 as an image display means is located above the document placing and feeding section 1 and substantially corresponds to the front end of the document placing and feeding section 1. It is located in.

A) Document Loading and Feeding Unit 1 The document loading and feeding unit 1 includes a document loading table 1a, a foldable paper feeding tray 1b, a document leading end receiver 1c, and a guide plate 1d for guiding a document to the paper feeding unit. , Paper feed roller 1e, reverse roller 1f
Document separation device comprising a feed roller 1g and a driving roller 1
h and a pair of registration rollers including a driven roller 1i which is pressed by a constant force and driven to rotate.

The document table 1a is located at the bottom of the space 10, is freely swingable up and down about a hinge shaft 1j on the rear side, and is lifted and rotated by a biasing means (not shown). The foldable sheet feed tray 1b is rotatable about a hinge shaft 1k on the front side thereof, and is placed on the original table 1a.
And a closed state in which the document table 1a is extended so that the document table 1a is extended substantially horizontally outward from the front wall of the apparatus as shown in FIG. Can be converted. When the paper feed tray 1b is closed on the document table 1a, it does not protrude outside the front wall of the apparatus.

When the apparatus is used, the sheet feeding tray 1b is opened, and the sheet-shaped documents S are stacked and placed over the document table 1a and the sheet feeding tray 1b. The document S is inserted and placed on the document placing table 1a and the sheet feed tray 1b until the leading end of the document S hits the document leading end receiver 1c.

Then, the original placing table 1a is lifted and urged by urging means (not shown), so that the upper surface on the leading end side of the stacked originals S comes into contact with the lower surface of the paper feed roller 1e at a predetermined contact pressure. When the paper feed roller 1e is driven to rotate in the paper feed direction, the uppermost original of the stacked originals S is sent out, and is sent between the rollers of the original separating device including the reverse rotation roller 1f and the feed roller 1g. Only the original is separated from the lower original by one sheet and sent to the pair of registration rollers 1h and 1i.

The uppermost document separated from the document separating devices 1f and 1g and sent to the registration roller pair 1h and 1i is placed in the nip portion of the registration roller pair 1h and 1i which is controlled to stop rotating at that time. The skew is corrected by being hit by the leading edge, and the registration rollers 1h and 1i are rotated at a constant speed at a fixed timing, and are sent to the document conveying means 2.

B) Document Conveying Means 2 and Document Ejecting Section 3 The document conveying means 2 is disposed behind a liquid crystal display device 5 which is an image display means, and a pair of registration rollers of the document placing and feeding section 1 is provided. The original sent from 1h and 1i is conveyed at a constant speed to an original discharging section 3 provided above the upper device section A, that is, above the liquid crystal display device 5, and is guided by a guide plate, a pair of conveying rollers, a conveying belt, or the like. It is composed.

In this example, the original sent out from the pair of registration rollers 1h and 1i of the original placing / feeding unit 1
a, 2a → first transport roller pair 2b → between a pair of platens 2c, 2d → second transport roller pair 2e → between first and second transport belts 2f, 2g → transport with first transport belt 2f Between the rollers 2h → the first transport belt 2f and the discharge roller 2
i, and is conveyed along the path between
is discharged to a. Reference numeral 3b denotes a drawer-type auxiliary discharge tray provided on the discharge tray 3a.

C) Image reading means 4 In the course of the document being transported between the pair of platens 2c and 2d of the document transport means 2, the images on the front side and the back side of the document are photoelectrically read.

In this embodiment, the image on the front side of the original is read by the illumination light source 4a by using the portion 4a on the one platen 2c side as the first reading section.
b, plane mirrors 4c, 4d, 4e, imaging lens 4f, C
Photoelectric reading processing is performed by a first image reading system including an image reading sensor 4g such as a CD. The other platen 2
The image on the back side of the document is a second image composed of an illumination light source 4i, plane mirrors 4j, 4k, 41, an imaging lens 4m, an image reading sensor 4n such as a CCD, etc. The reading system performs a photoelectric reading process.

The originals S stacked and set on the original placing and feeding section 1 are sent out one by one from the original placing and feeding section 1 and conveyed to the original discharge section 3 by the original conveying means 2. In the process of reading, the original image (optical image) is
In this example, the signal is converted into an electric signal by a photoelectric reading process, and is recorded on a magneto-optical disk D which is a recording medium of the magneto-optical recording device 8 in this example as a recording means. At the same time, in the present example as an image display means, the read image is displayed on the image display surface 5a of the liquid crystal display device 5, and it can be confirmed that the reading is surely performed. The liquid crystal display device 5
On the image display surface 5a, an image recorded on the magneto-optical disk D and appropriately searched can be displayed and read.
In this embodiment, a hard copy of the image can be output by operating the laser beam printer 9 as a hard copy forming output unit.

In the present embodiment, the input operation of various instructions to the apparatus is performed on the image display surface 5a of the liquid crystal display device 5.
This is performed using the touch panel 7 provided above.

In the device of the present embodiment, a space 10 is provided below the liquid crystal display device 5 as an image display means, the space being opened on the front side of the device as an opening and recessed toward the back of the device. The document placing and feeding unit 1 is disposed at the bottom of the document 10, and the depth b of the document placing and feeding unit 1 is set to the maximum size (A4 in this example) of the sheet document S that can be used for feeding to the apparatus. The size of the document is set to be at least half of the size of the document in the document conveying direction, and the ceiling side of the space 10 is located at the lower end c of the front wall of the apparatus provided with the liquid crystal display device 5 and the document placed on the document placing and feeding section 1. By setting the angle θ2 between the line (virtual line) d connecting the front end and the image display surface 5a of the liquid crystal display device 5 to be an obtuse angle, the space 10 has a ceiling surface that is located at the back of the device. The front side of the device is greatly open as a downward slope toward The liquid crystal display device 5 forms a wedge-shaped space, and at the position where the image display surface 5 of the liquid crystal display device 5 is viewed, almost the entire area of the document placing / feeding unit 1 disposed at the bottom of the space portion 10 is hidden by the liquid crystal display device 5. Looks without messing around.

At a position where the image display surface 5a of the liquid crystal display device 5 is viewed, the document discharge section 3 provided above the liquid crystal display device 5 can be seen.

On the image display surface 5a of the liquid crystal display device 5, a touch panel 7 for inputting various instructions to the device is provided.

Therefore, at the position where the image display surface 5a of the liquid crystal display device 5 is viewed and in the same posture, the input operation using the touch panel, the setting of the original on the original placing and feeding unit 1, and the discharging to the original discharging unit 3 are performed. It is possible to remove the paper document, and the operability is extremely good. Further, the size of the device can be reduced.

By setting the depth dimension b of the original placing and feeding section 1 to be at least half the dimension of the maximum size sheet-shaped original S that can be fed to the apparatus in the original transport direction, Even when a document is used, the protrusion on the front side of the apparatus can be reduced and the operability is good.

By providing the touch panel 7 for operating the device on the image display surface 5a of the image display means 5, it is possible to perform the device operation work using the touch panel without changing the attitude at the position where the image display surface of the image display means is viewed. Good operability. Further, the size of the device can be reduced. By using a liquid crystal display device as the image display means, the size of the device can be further reduced.

The operability can be improved in this respect also by adopting an apparatus configuration in which the removable recording medium D of the recording means 8 is attached to and detached from the front side of the apparatus, and the output hard copy of the hard copy forming output means is taken out from the front side of the apparatus. Get better.

The image display means 5 may use a CRT, an electroluminescence, a plasma or a fluorescent display tube or the like.

The recording means 8 can be a recording device other than the magneto-optical recording device. The recording medium does not need to be detachable from the recording apparatus main body, but may be a medium fixed to the apparatus main body such as a hard disk.

The hard copy forming output means 9 is not limited to a laser beam printer, but may be an image forming apparatus of an appropriate image forming principle and process.

[0061]

As described above, according to the present invention, a document conveying means for conveying a sheet-shaped document from a document placing and feeding section to a document discharging section, and an image reading means for reading an image of the conveyed document. A recording means for recording a read image on a recording medium, and an image recording apparatus provided with an image display surface arranged on the front side of the apparatus and displaying a read image or a recorded image. As small as possible,
In addition, the operability of the apparatus can be improved, and the intended purpose is well achieved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an image recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the device.

FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram of an upper device portion of the device.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS A Upper device unit B Lower device unit 1 Document placing and feeding unit 2 Document conveying unit 3 Document discharging unit 4 Image reading unit 5 Image display unit (liquid crystal display device) 6 Electrical unit 7 Touch panel 8 Recording unit (Magneto-optical recording device) 9 Hard copy formation output means (laser beam printer) S Sheet-shaped original

Claims (14)

(57) [Claims] A document feeder configured to transport a sheet-shaped document from a document placing / feeding unit to a document discharge unit; an image reading unit configured to read an image of the fed document; and recording the read image on a recording medium. Recording means, and an image recording apparatus provided with an image display surface disposed on the front side of the apparatus, and an image display means for displaying a read image or a recorded image, wherein the apparatus front side is located below the image display means. A space is provided as an opening, and a concave portion is provided on the back side of the apparatus. A document placing and feeding section is disposed at a bottom of the space, and a depth dimension of the document placing and feeding section is set to the apparatus. The size of the largest sheet-size original that can be fed is set to be at least half the dimension in the original conveyance direction, and the ceiling side of the space is located at the lower end of the front wall of the apparatus provided with the image display means and the original placement feeder. A line connecting the leading end of the original placed on the paper An image recording apparatus, wherein an angle formed between an image display surface of an image display means and an image display surface is set to be an obtuse angle. 2. The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an image display surface of said image display means is obliquely upward. 3. A lower end portion of the front wall of the apparatus provided with the image display means is located at a position substantially corresponding to a front end of the document placing and feeding section above the document placing and feeding section. The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: 4. The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a touch panel for operating the apparatus is provided on an image display surface of said image display means. 5. The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image display means is a liquid crystal display device. 6. The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a document discharge unit is provided above the image display unit. 7. The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image reading unit is a photoelectric reading unit. 8. The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording unit is configured such that a recording medium is detachable, and the recording medium is detached from a front side of the apparatus. . 9. An image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said recording means is a magneto-optical recording apparatus. 10. The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a hard copy forming output unit configured to reproduce and form the read image or the recorded image on paper or the like. 11. The image recording apparatus according to claim 10, wherein a hard copy of the output is taken out from the front side of the apparatus. 12. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said hard copy forming and outputting means is a laser beam printer.
12. The image recording apparatus according to 0 or 11. 13. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a recording means is provided below the document placing and feeding section, and a hard copy forming output means is provided below the recording means. The image recording apparatus as described in the above. 14. A document transporting means for transporting a sheet-shaped document from a document placing and feeding section to a document discharging section, an image reading means for reading an image of the fed document, and recording the read image on a recording medium. Recording means, and an image recording apparatus provided with an image display surface disposed on the front side of the apparatus, and an image display means for displaying a read image or a recorded image, wherein the apparatus front side is located below the image display means. An opening is provided as an opening, and a space is provided which is recessed toward the back of the apparatus. A document placing table is provided at the bottom of the space, and the image display surface is positioned directly above the document placing table. An image characterized in that the document placing table is disposed at a position recessed from the front of the apparatus, and the space portion is formed so that a document leading end receiving section of the document placing table can be seen from a position where the image display surface is observed. Recording device.