Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 送纸装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US13644915Application Date: 2012-10-04
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Publication No.: US08720882B2Publication Date: 2014-05-13
- Inventor: Munehisa Fuda , Hideyuki Satoh , Taewon Kim , Toshihiro Okutsu
- Applicant: Munehisa Fuda , Hideyuki Satoh , Taewon Kim , Toshihiro Okutsu
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2011-221844 20111006
- Main IPC: B65H3/14
- IPC: B65H3/14

Abstract:
A sheet feeding device includes a stacking unit configured to allow sheets to be stacked thereon; side end regulating members configured to make contact with both side ends of the stacked sheets so that positions of the side ends are regulated; a feeding unit configured to feed one sheet at a time from the stacked sheets; an air supply unit; and an air blow unit including a blow port from which air supplied from the air supply unit is blown against a side end of the stacked sheets, the air blow unit being housed in each of the side end regulating members. Each side end regulating member has an opening for exhausting the air that is blown from the blow port unit to the stacked sheets. An orientation of the blow port is adjustable about an axial line perpendicular to a plane corresponding to a surface of the stacked sheets.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130087967A1 SHEET FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-04-11
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