Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sheet material feeding device and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15452833Application Date: 2017-03-08
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Publication No.: US09815642B2Publication Date: 2017-11-14
- Inventor: Naoki Matsui , Masanobu Tomiyasu , Yasuaki Tomoda
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2016-056489 20160322
- Main IPC: B65H1/22
- IPC: B65H1/22 ; B65H1/26 ; B65H9/04 ; B65H1/08 ; B65H3/06

Abstract:
A sheet material feeding device includes: a housing; a cassette configured to internally house a sheet material, and capable of being pulled out of the housing and housed into the housing; a rear-end regulating member provided inside the cassette and configured to regulate a position of an upstream end of the sheet material in a sheet material feeding direction; a rear-end displacing member supported by the rear-end regulating member and configured to swing along the sheet material feeding direction; a sliding member provided for the cassette, having an engagement part to be engaged with the rear-end displacing member, and configured to slide toward a downstream side in the sheet material feeding direction to displace the rear-end displacing member toward the downstream side in the sheet material feeding direction; and a first energizing member configured to energize the sliding member toward an upstream side in the sheet material feeding direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170275114A1 SHEET MATERIAL FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-09-28
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