Image forming apparatus
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12098041B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-24

    申请号:US18301278

    申请日:2023-04-17

    Inventor: Shinya Sugimoto

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a paper feeding cassette, a first conveying unit, a lift mechanism, a motor, a second conveying unit, and a control unit. The controller drives the motor and, if a value indicating a movement amount of the tray moving from when the lift mechanism starts the lifting of the tray until when a position of the top part reaches a first position is a first value, matches a position of the first conveying unit, which comes into contact with the top part to thereby rise together with the tray, with a second position and, if the value indicating the movement amount is a second value larger than the first value, matches the position of the first conveying unit, which comes into contact with the top part to thereby rise together with the tray, with a third position lower than the second position.

    Image processing apparatus
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12077402B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-03

    申请号:US17516285

    申请日:2021-11-01

    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a support surface configured to support a sheet, a sheet feeding roller configured to feed the sheet in a conveying direction, a separation member for separating the sheet one by one and positioned downstream of the sheet feeding roller in the conveying direction, and a regulating member displaceable between a first position where the regulating member abuts against a distal end of the sheet supported by the support surface to regulate passage of the sheet in the conveying direction between the sheet feeding roller and the separation member and a second position that is farther from a conveyance path than the first position and that allows passage of the sheet in the conveying direction. The regulating member has a wall surface that abuts against the distal end of the sheet and includes at least one protrusion on the wall surface.

    DOCUMENT FEED DEVICE WITH ASCENDABLE DOCUMENT GUIDE MEMBER

    公开(公告)号:US20230373739A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-23

    申请号:US18030124

    申请日:2021-05-17

    Inventor: Junghoon LEE

    CPC classification number: B65H3/0684 B65H3/66 B65H2601/254

    Abstract: A document feed device includes a tray in which a document is loaded, a pickup roller to be moved upward or downward to a standby position spaced apart from the document or to a pickup position to pick up the document in the tray, a separator to separate each sheet of the picked-up document, an inclined guide to connect an end of an exit of the tray to an entrance of the separator and to guide a bottom surface of the picked-up document, and a document guide member movable to a first position protruding from the inclined guide to guide the picked-up document or to a second position below the inclined guide.

    Sheet conveying apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11820618B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-21

    申请号:US17166864

    申请日:2021-02-03

    Inventor: Ryo Aihara

    Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus includes a transmitting mechanism-, a movable member, and a control portion to input a signal having first and second levels. The transmitting mechanism transmits driving force and includes a spring clutch and an electromagnetic clutch. The driving force pivotally moves the movable member. The spring clutch idles by a slackness of a spring when the rotation in a second direction is inputted to the transmitting mechanism and the movable member is regulated from pivoting at a predetermined position. The control portion inputs the signal to the transmitting mechanism such that the state electromagnetic clutch state changes the engagement state to the disengagement state through an intermediary state gradually varying a length of time where the signal of the first level is inputted into the electromagnetic clutch after the movable member reaches the predetermined position by inputting the rotation in the second direction to the transmitting mechanism.

    SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20230356967A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-09

    申请号:US18222619

    申请日:2023-07-17

    CPC classification number: B65H3/0669 B65H1/08 B65H3/0607 B65H3/0684

    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet supporting portion configured to support a sheet, a feeding member configured to contact an upper surface of the sheet supported on the sheet supporting portion and feed the sheet, a drive motor configured to rotate in a first direction and in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a lifting mechanism connected to the drive motor and configured to lift the sheet supporting portion and lower the feeding member in a case where the drive motor rotates in the first direction, and to lower the sheet supporting portion and lift the feeding member in a case where the drive motor rotates in the second direction.

    MEDIUM CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND RECORDING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20230278818A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-07

    申请号:US18179423

    申请日:2023-03-07

    CPC classification number: B65H3/0684 B65H1/266 B65H2404/1521

    Abstract: A direction orthogonal to an attachment/detachment direction is defined as a first direction and a direction orthogonal to the attachment/detachment direction and to the first direction is defined as a second direction. A sheet feeding cassette includes a contact portion that comes into contact with a roller separation mechanism unit, the contact portion including a first inclined surface inclined to extend along a straight line including a component in the attachment/detachment direction and a component in the first direction. The roller separation mechanism unit includes a contacted portion that comes into contact with the contact portion, the contacted portion including a second inclined surface inclined to extend along a straight line including a component in the attachment/detachment direction and a component in the second direction.

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