Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Akira Kabamoto

Zenko Motoki

Yukiteru Yano

Yoshibumi Abe

Minoru Sato

Jun Taniguchi

Kohei Ishizawa

Shinichi Nishimura

When an operation body is urged upward by a flat spring and is in a return position, a projection disposed on the operation body is held between opposing positioning portions and the position of the operation body in an X-direction is set. When the operation body is pressed at a position away from a central portion of the operation body in the X-direction, the operation body pivots on one of retaining structures downward. At this time, the projection moves away from the opposing positioning portions, and resistance against a pressing operation can thereby be reduced.

Press operation apparatus

An automatic sheet-feeding device of a printer includes a sheet loading section, delivery rollers, and a separating plate. When recording sheets placed on the sheet loading section are supplied, the delivery rollers are rotationally driven in contact with the sheet loading section, and the inclination of the separating plate with respect to the surface of the sheet loading section is changed to an angle that allows the uppermost recording sheet to be separated one by one. Except when the recording sheet is supplied from the sheet loading section, the delivery rollers are separated from the sheet loading section, and the separating plate is inclined substantially perpendicularly to the surface of the sheet loading section to hold the recording sheets.

Automatic sheet-feeding device of printer

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Miyagi-ken, Japan

Akira Kabamoto