摘要:
A sheet feeding device (5) in which sheets contained in a sheet container (4) detachably attached to an apparatus main body are fed by a sheet feeder, including a sheet support member (4) provided in the sheet container (4) to vertically move while supporting the sheets (P), a lifter for raising and lowering the sheet support member (4), a cam member (38) to lower the sheet feeder to bring it into contact with the sheets (P) when the sheets (P) are sent out and to raise the sheet feeder to an upper initial position on standby, a detector (37) for detecting the height of the sheets (P) according to the position at which the sheet feeder abuts against the sheets (P), and a controller for controlling the raising and lowering operations of the lifter on the basis of the detection result of the height of the sheets (P) as obtained by the detector (37) to maintain the uppermost surface of the sheets (P) at a predetermined height, in which, when the sheet container (4) is accommodated in the apparatus main body, the raising operation of the cam member (38) is canceled by the sheet container (4), and the sheet feeder is lowered from the initial position to enable the detector (37) to perform detection.
摘要:
A paper feed unit includes a hopper on which sheets are stacked and which is turned around a rotation shaft. The hopper is turned to move apart from or move to a paper feed roller. The paper feed unit has three modes: a large release mode in which the hopper is turned to be most apart from the paper feed roller, a non-release mode in which the printing sheet is abutted against the paper feed roller, and a small release mode in which the printing sheet is slightly separated from the paper feed roller, and is at a medium level between the above two modes . When a paper feeding job is still present, a state that the uppermost printing sheet is slightly separated from the paper feed roller is retained by the small release mode, whereby a swing range of the hopper is minimized.
摘要:
There is disclosed a sheet material feed apparatus comprising sheet material stacking means (15,16,17) for stacking sheet materials; a feed roller (11) for feeding the sheet materials stacked on the sheet material stacking means; a drive source for driving the feed roller; a separation roller rotated according to the feed roller to separate a sheet material; a separation roller holder for rotatably holding the separation roller, the separation roller holder being rotated to thereby move the separation roller to a position in contact with the feed roller and a position apart from the feed roller; and return means (13) for returning the sheet materials other than the sheet material separated by the separation roller to the sheet material stacking means, the return means being controlled by one-direction rotation for driving the feed roller of the drive source. Furthermore, a recording apparatus for recording on the sheet material by the recording head is also disclosed herein.
摘要:
An auxiliary roller (10) is disposed in the proximity of sides of feed rollers (3) and in the proximity upward from a separation pad (11a). At the print time, the auxiliary roller (10) is slightly projected toward the side of print sheet (P) from roller faces of the feed rollers (3). The auxiliary roller (10) is displaced as paper (P) is displaced in a stack direction of the paper, and can be freely rotated. A hopper (2) is moved up, paper (P) is pressed against the feed rollers (3), and the separation pad (11a) abuts the feed rollers (3). Then, the feed rollers (3) and a transport roller (6) are rotated forward for feeding the paper (P) to the transport roller. Further, the paper (P) is sent from the transport roller (6) at a distance equal to or greater than the length along the feeding path between the position of the front end of paper placed in a paper feed tray (1) and the abutment center point of the separation pad (11a) and the feed rollers (3). Subsequently, the feed rollers (3) and the transport roller (6) stop, the hopper (2) is moved down, and the separation pad (11a) is brought away from the feed rollers (3) . Then, the transport roller (6) is rotated reversely the rotation amount corresponding to the length or more for returning the paper.
摘要:
The present invention provides a sheet supplying apparatus (1) comprising a sheet supporting means (6) for supporting a sheet (P), a first abutment member (5d) for regulating a tip end of the sheet supported by the sheet supporting means, a displaceable second abutment member (49) for regulating the tip end of the sheet supported by the sheet supporting means (6), and a sheet supply means (2) for feeding out the sheet supported by the sheet supporting means (6), and wherein an angle between a surface of the sheet (P) supported by the sheet supporting means (6) and a sheet abutment surface of the second abutment member (49) is smaller than an angle between the surface of the sheet (P) and a sheet abutment surface of the first abutment member (5d).
摘要:
An image forming apparatus having: a slit plate (102) in which a plurality of slits of different widths are provided, the slit plate (102) being movable in an amount proportional to an amount of movement of a elevating plate (68); a sensor unit (104) disposed such that the slits pass between a luminous element and a light-sensitive element, the sensor unit outputting (104) a detection signal that indicates whether light emitted by the luminous element is in a transmitted state or not; and a control unit (106) that stores positions of the elevating plate (68) corresponding to ratios of neighboring slit widths, and identifies a position of the elevating plate corresponding to a slit width ratio derived from a detection signal outputted by the sensor unit (104), thereby deriving a remaining quantity of sheets on the elevating plate (68).