Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nobukazu Ohtsuka

Toshikazu Matsui

Mitsugu Shibanaka

Hiroyuki Nagai

Jun Miyoshi

The present invention relates to a document pusher plate to be used in an image forming equipment in which a document pusher plate which can be freely opened and closed by a hinge mechanism is mounted on a document set plate of the image forming equipment and a document is fed to the position of exposure on the document set plate or delivered from the position of exposure by rotating or reversing document transfer means arranged at the side of a document feeding device in the document pusher plate. This document pusher plate is provided with a reinforcement plate at the side of the document transfer means at the rear side thereof, and one end of the reinforcement plate is linked with the hinge mechanism, thereby causing warping or deflection of the document pusher plate to be prevented, accomplishing low cost of the production and light weight, and causing the document transfer to be accurate and stabilized by means of an automatic document feeding unit.

Document pusher plate of an image forming equipment

An automatic document transfer device including a document feeding portion mounted at the document feeding section of the main body of the image forming equipment and a portion for transferring documents to the position of exposure on the document table, which is mounted at the document pusher plate attached to the upper portion of the document table of the main body of the image forming equipment. First and second linkage gears which can be mutually engaged to be connected and disconnected together with opening and closing of the document pusher plate whereby a drive force is transmitted from the document feeding portion to the transferring portion by way of the first and the second linkage gears.

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Osaka, Japan

Nobukazu Ohtsuka