Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic document feeder and image reading device
- Patent Title (中): 自动送纸器和图像读取装置
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Application No.: US12405554Application Date: 2009-03-17
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Publication No.: US08237999B2Publication Date: 2012-08-07
- Inventor: Takuro Kusama
- Applicant: Takuro Kusama
- 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: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2008-071398 20080319
- Main IPC: H04N1/04
- IPC: H04N1/04

Abstract:
There is provided an automatic document feeder, comprising: a document tray; an output tray; a first rotating body that ejects the document to the output tray; a second rotating body that ejects the document to the output tray; a reversing mechanism that reverses a carrying direction of the document which passed the reading portion to carry again the document to the reading portion; a sinking mechanism that sinks the document into a position between a bottom of a document already stacked on the output tray and a surface of the output tray; and a switching mechanism configured to switch between a first motion of carrying the document to the first rotating body and a second motion of carrying the document to the second rotating body, in accordance with whether the reversing mechanism is activated.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090237754A1 Automatic Document Feeder and Image Reading Device Public/Granted day:2009-09-24
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