- Patent Title: Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus employing the same
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Application No.: US15886140Application Date: 2018-02-01
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Publication No.: US10284737B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Tetsuya Morita
- Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-Shi
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-Shi
- Agency: Burr & Brown, PLLC
- Priority: JP2017-056657 20170322
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00 ; B65H5/06

Abstract:
A sheet feeding device has a sheet feed tray, a metallic pressure plate configured to support the plurality of sheets, the sheet feed tray being rockable about a rocking fulcrum between a descending position and an ascending position, a sheet feed roller configured to convey sheets supported by the pressure plate in a sheet conveying direction one by one, and an elastic member made of metal and arranged on the sheet feed tray, the elastic member engaging with the pressure plate and being electrically connected to the pressure plate, the elastic member contacting metal arranged outside the sheet feed tray to ground the pressure plate. The pressure plate has an engaging part configured to engage with the elastic member, the engaging part displacing in a direction where a contact pressure with respect to the elastic member increases when the pressure plate displaced from the descending position to the ascending position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180278774A1 SHEET FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2018-09-27
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