Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sheet feed device
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Application No.: US16749028Application Date: 2020-01-22
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Publication No.: US11352226B2Publication Date: 2022-06-07
- Inventor: Yoichiro Nishimura , Asami Hashimoto , Gakuro Kanazawa , Tetsuo Asada
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2019-065968 20190329
- Main IPC: B65H3/06
- IPC: B65H3/06 ; B65H1/04

Abstract:
A sheet feed device includes a housing, a tray, a feed roller, an arm, a pad, and a protruding portion. The housing has a sheet conveyance path. The tray includes a bottom plate having a sheet support surface that supports a sheet. The sheet conveyance path extends upward from the sheet support surface. The feed roller rotates about a rotational axis and feeds the sheet supported on the sheet support surface in a first direction. The arm rotatably supports the feed roller. The arm swingably moves about an axis parallel to the rotational axis of the feed roller. The pad is disposed on the bottom plate. The pad has a higher friction coefficient than a friction coefficient of the sheet support surface. The protruding portion protrudes upward from the sheet support surface at a position shifted from the pad in a second direction opposite from the first direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200307929A1 SHEET FEED DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-10-01
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