Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Feeder unit, sheet feeding device, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 送料单元,送纸装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12415202Application Date: 2009-03-31
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Publication No.: US07905479B2Publication Date: 2011-03-15
- Inventor: Kenji Samoto
- Applicant: Kenji Samoto
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2008-100808 20080408
- Main IPC: B65H3/06
- IPC: B65H3/06

Abstract:
A feeder unit to feed sheets is provided. The feeder unit includes a main frame, being swingably supported at a pivotal end by a first shaft, and arranged to extend from the first shaft toward an upper level of a tray, a rotary member, which is rotatably supported, and is arranged to come in contact with a topmost surface of the sheets, a pair of opposing walls, formed in the main frame, a secondary frame, having a pair of supporting walls which come to face the opposing walls, a gear train to transmit rotation force to the rotary member, a positioning system to situate the secondary frame in a predetermined position, and a detachment restricting system to restrict the secondary frame from being detached from the main frame. The secondary frame is situated in the predetermined position when the rotary member rotates in a direction to feed the sheets.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090250867A1 Feeder Unit, Sheet Feeding Device, and Image Forming Apparatus Public/Granted day:2009-10-08
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