Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Ken Iwamoto

Atsushi Narukawa

Tatsushi Hayashi

Masafumi Okumura

A sheet supplying device supplies a sheet to a sheet supplied apparatus which designates the size and transport direction of the sheet. The sheet supplying device includes a movable cassette for placing the sheet thereon and movable to at least two transport positions so as to transport the sheet therefrom in at least two transport directions, a fixed cassette for placing the sheet thereon and fixed in one transport position so as to transport the sheet therefrom in one transport direction, a transport device for transporting the sheet from each of the movable cassette and the fixed cassette to the sheet supplied apparatus. The sheet supplying device further includes a control device, to which the size of the sheet placed on the movable cassette and the size and transport direction of the sheet placed on the fixed cassette are input, for selecting preferentially the fixed cassette as the cassette from which the sheet is transported by the transport device when the size of the sheet placed on the movable cassette corresponds to the designated size and, at the same time, the size and transport direction of the sheet placed on the fixed cassette correspond to the designated size and transport direction.

Sheet supplying device

A lens repositioning device for use in a copying machine which device comprises a generally elongated lens carriage having a lens assembly fixedly mounted thereon; a single traction cable adapted to be driven by a drive unit and including generally intermediate first and second cable portions over the length thereof which extend parallel to each other and are, when the traction cable is driven by the drive unit, moved at the same velocity and in the same direction, and a guide member. The lens carriage is rigidly connected at its opposite ends with the respective first and second portions of the traction cable. The guide member is operable during the movement of the traction cable accompanied by the movement of the lens carriage to guide the lens assembly to follow a curved path of a predetermined configuration.

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Nara, Japan

Ken Iwamoto