Konica Corporation

Kazuaki Ito

Osamu Kato

Nobutaka Kato

Kiyoshi Hata

Kazuhiro Hirota

Tsuyoshi Mizubata

Junichi Fujita

Satoru Endo

Masashi Aoki

A document feeder reads a document at a reading section while conveying the document. The document feeder has a flexible member which is set in a convey path formed in a document feeding section such that the document is always conveyed along the convey path, and which flexes by a passing force of the document, to allow conveyance of the document. The flexible member is formed of a PET sheet, and is adhered to a reading guide member provided to the document feeding section, to close the convey path.

Document feeder and image forming apparatus

An apparatus for feeding a both-sided document having images on both sides thereof is provided with a document stand; a reading section; a feeder having a feeding passage and to feed the both-sided document from the document stand to the reading section along the feeding passage; a pair of reversing rollers provided on a reversing passage to reverse the both-sided document after an image of the both-sided document is read at the reading section and to reefed the reversed both-sided document from the reversing passage to the feeding passage so that an image on another side of the both-sided document is read at the reading section; a pair of ejecting rollers provided on an ejecting passage and to eject the both-sided document to a delivery section after the images on both sides of the both-sided document are read at the reading section; and a switching mechanism to connect an outlet passage of the reading section to one of the reversing passage and the ejecting passage; wherein one of the pair of reversing rollers and one of the ejecting rollers are mounted coaxially on a shaft.

Document feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus

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Kawagoe, Japan

Kazuaki Ito