Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Feeding device and image recording apparatus equipped with the feeding device
- Patent Title (中): 送料装置和装有送料装置的图像记录装置
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Application No.: US11275700Application Date: 2006-01-25
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Publication No.: US07661674B2Publication Date: 2010-02-16
- Inventor: Masatoshi Izuchi , Noritsugu Ito
- Applicant: Masatoshi Izuchi , Noritsugu Ito
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Baker Botts, LLP.
- Priority: JP2005-018127 20050126
- Main IPC: B65H27/00
- IPC: B65H27/00

Abstract:
A feeding device including a drive roller and a driven roller opposed to the drive roller and biased toward the drive roller, such that the drive and driven rollers cooperate to feed a sheet while holding the sheet therebetween. The driven roller includes a toothed wheel portion and a contactable portion having a diameter smaller than that of the toothed wheel portion. The drive roller includes first and second portions. A radially outer end of the second portion is more distant from an axis of the drive roller than a radially outer end of the first portion. During absence of the sheet between the drive and driven rollers, the contactable portion of the driven roller is held in contact at its circumferential surface with a circumferential surface of the second portion of the drive roller, while a radially outer end of the toothed wheel portion is not in contact with a circumferential surface of the first portion. Also disclosed is an image recording apparatus including the above-described feeding device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060163803A1 Feeding Device And Image Recording Apparatus Equipped With The Feeding Device Public/Granted day:2006-07-27
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