WO1999005635A3 - Improved handheld document scanner - Google Patents

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WO1999005635A3
WO1999005635A3 PCT/US1998/015509 US9815509W WO9905635A3 WO 1999005635 A3 WO1999005635 A3 WO 1999005635A3 US 9815509 W US9815509 W US 9815509W WO 9905635 A3 WO9905635 A3 WO 9905635A3
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Armand P Neukermans
James P Downing
Timothy G Slater
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Xros Inc
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Abstract

A document transport for a scanner (100) has a flexible, elongated finger (226) disposed adjacent to a document (134), and a force applied to the finger (226) urges teeth (233) on the finger (226) into contact with the document (134) which urges the document (134) along a path through the scanner (100). A piezoelectric plate (222), which applies the force to the finger (226), requires only a small amount of electrical power. To traverse the scanner (100), a document (134) may also be manually fed along a guide (272). First and second speed-sensing detectors (276a and 276b), disposed along the path traversed by the document (134), permit the scanner (100) to determine a speed at which the manually fed document (134) traverses the scanner (100). To conserve electrical energy, the scanner (100) also includes a document-presence detector (274) for activating the scanner (100) when a document (134) to be scanned is present.
PCT/US1998/015509 1997-07-23 1998-07-23 Improved handheld document scanner WO1999005635A2 (en)

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