Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ichiro Fukada

A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet supporting portion movable between a sheet supporting position and a first storage position. A sheet feed unit includes a sheet feed portion to feed the supported sheet, and an abutment member regulates movement of the sheet in a sheet feed direction by abutting against a downstream end of the sheet. An engagement member turns into an engagement state and a release state. The sheet feed unit is positioned in a sheet feed position or a waiting position and is exposed to an outside of the sheet feeding apparatus when the sheet supporting portion is in the sheet supporting position. The sheet supporting portion includes a pressing portion to turn the engagement member from the engagement state to the release state by pressing the engagement member when the sheet supporting portion moves from the sheet supporting position to the first storage position.

Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus

A feeding device includes an accommodating unit, a feeding member, a regulating member, a member-to-be-detected, a detecting device, and a connecting member. The regulating member contacts the member-to-be-detected in a first region with respect to a feeding direction and is spaced from the member-to-be-detected through the connecting member in a second region different from the first region with respect to the feeding direction.

Feeding device and image forming apparatus

A sheet feeding device includes a sheet loading portion which is capable of elevating operation and on which a sheet is loaded, a feeding member for feeding the sheet loaded on the sheet loading portion, the feeding member being capable of elevating movement between a contacting position in contact with the sheet and a distanced position distanced upward from the sheet, and a control portion that controls the elevating operation of the sheet loading portion and the elevating movement of the feeding member. When the feeding member at the contacting position moves to the distanced position, the feeding member is distanced upward from the sheet loaded on the sheet loading portion after the sheet loading portion starts a descending operation.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Ichiro Fukada