Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US12129140B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US18222619

    申请日:2023-07-17

    发明人: Yasuaki Matsumoto

    IPC分类号: B65H3/06 B65H1/08

    摘要: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet support to support a sheet, a sheet feeder to contact an upper surface of the sheet supported on the sheet support and feed the sheet, and a conveyor to convey the sheet fed from the sheet feeder. A first motor drives the sheet feeder and the conveyor, a second motor rotates in a first direction and in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a lift is connected to the second motor and lifts the sheet feeder in a case where the second motor rotates in the second direction. A controller controls the first motor and the second motor and, during a job of feeding a sheet from the sheet support, starts rotation of the second motor in the second direction after starting feeding of a final sheet in the job and before stopping the first motor.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240174465A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18517907

    申请日:2023-11-22

    发明人: Hoang Viet NGUYEN

    IPC分类号: B65H1/08 B65H1/26

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an attachment part and a sheet feeding cassette attached to the attachment part. The sheet feeding cassette includes a cassette main body, a lift plate, a lock member and a biasing member. The lift plate is supported in a turnable manner. The lock member is movable between a lock position where a turning of the lift plate is restricted and a release position where the turning of the lift plate is permitted. The biasing member biases the lock member to the lock position. In a state where the sheet feeding cassette is not attached to the attachment part, the lock member is biased by the biasing member to be positioned at the lock position. In a state where the sheet feeding cassette is attached to the attachment part, the lock member is movable either to the lock position or the release position by hand.

    Sheet-shaped-medium feeder and handling apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11603277B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-14

    申请号:US17460433

    申请日:2021-08-30

    发明人: Shoichi Maeda

    摘要: A feeder includes: a mount board that moves vertically while allowing sheet-shaped media to be stacked thereon; a transport device that allows an uppermost one of the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount board to be sucked by a suction portion to transport the uppermost sheet-shaped medium to a transporter and to feed the uppermost sheet-shaped medium to a destination; left and right edge air blowers that blow air to left and right edge portions, when viewed from an upstream side in a transportation direction, of upper ones of the sheet-shaped media stacked; and left and right detectors that are disposed on left and right sides of the suction portion at the same position in the transportation direction, and that individually detect downward or upward bend amounts of left and right edge portions of the uppermost sheet-shaped medium.

    Sheet cassette and image processing device

    公开(公告)号:US11434092B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-06

    申请号:US16951010

    申请日:2020-11-18

    发明人: Mikio Yamamoto

    摘要: According to one embodiment, a sheet cassette includes a sheet placing portion. The sheet placing portion can rotate around a rotation shaft while placing a sheet of a placeable maximum size in a sheet placing area to be flat. The rotation shaft extends to be perpendicular to a discharge direction and a gravity direction of the sheet. The rotation shaft is disposed between a first end portion on a downstream side along the discharge direction in the sheet placing area and a second end portion on an upstream side positioned on a side opposite to the first end portion.

    Image forming apparatus that controls feeding operation

    公开(公告)号:US11383945B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-12

    申请号:US16440869

    申请日:2019-06-13

    发明人: Naoki Kanno

    IPC分类号: B65H7/18 B65H1/08 B65H7/06

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit to detect recording material fed from a stacking unit, a determination unit, a count unit, and a control unit. The determination unit determines that a feeding failure has occurred when the detection unit does not detect the recording material until elapse of a predetermined period. The count unit counts a number of times the feeding operation is performed for a single sheet of the recording material. When the counted number of feeding operation performance times by when the feeding failure has occurred is smaller than a threshold, the control unit restarts the feeding operation that has been stopped without waiting for a user's operation. When the counted number of feeding operation performance times by when the feeding failure has occurred is at least equal to the threshold, the control unit waits for the user's operation while the feeding operation is stopped.

    Image Forming Apparatus
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220204290A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17563733

    申请日:2021-12-28

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes: a housing; a feed tray insertable into and removable from the housing and accommodating a sheet-shaped medium; a feed roller feeding the sheet-shaped medium; an image forming device; and a movement mechanism. The feed tray includes: a first accommodation portion accommodating a roll body, a first sheet-shaped medium being rolled in a roll shape as the roll body; and a second accommodation portion accommodating a second sheet-shaped medium which is shorter than the first sheet-shaped medium. The movement mechanism moves to a first position where the feed roller contacts the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll body accommodated in the first accommodation portion and a second position where the feed roller contacts the second sheet-shaped medium accommodated in the second accommodation portion.

    Image forming apparatus
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11198571B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-14

    申请号:US16450663

    申请日:2019-06-24

    发明人: Sho Ota

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a control unit and an attachment detection unit to detect attachment of a cassette having a stacking portion that may be lifted by a motor. The control unit drives the motor to start lifting the stacking portion when cassette attachment is detected and stops when the stacked uppermost sheet is detected at a sheet feed position, at which time the presence or absence of the stored sheet is determined based on a detection signal output by a sheet presence/absence detection unit. In a case where there is no change in the detection signal output from the sheet presence/absence detection unit when the attachment of the cassette is detected, the control unit determines that a failure of the sheet presence/absence detection flag occurred.

    Image reading device
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10961074B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-30

    申请号:US16351438

    申请日:2019-03-12

    发明人: Atsushi Miwa

    摘要: An image reading device includes: a controller which performs a first drive operation for rotating the discharge roller, and a second drive operation for moving the discharge guide between the third position and the fourth position. The controller stops the first drive operation when performing the second drive operation, and stops the second drive operation when performing the first drive operation.