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.: US12408349Application Date: 2009-03-20
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Publication No.: US08346152B2Publication Date: 2013-01-01
- Inventor: Ryoichi Matsushima
- Applicant: Ryoichi Matsushima
- 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: JP2008-078621 20080325
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; B65H31/08 ; B65H31/04

Abstract:
There is provided an automatic document feeder, comprising: a document tray; an output tray; a movable ejection flap configured to be movable between a first position where the document for which the image reading is finished is sunk into a position between the output tray and a bottom of a stacked document already staked on the output tray and a second position where the document is ejected on the output tray without being sunk into the position; a setting unit configured to set the movable flap to one of the first position and the second position; a change unit configured to change a position of the movable flap to the second position in response to a fact that a predetermined condition is satisfied in a state where the position of the movable flap has been set to the first position through the setting unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090245905A1 Automatic Document Feeder and Image Reading Device Public/Granted day:2009-10-01
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