Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Syoutaro Okamoto

Yasumasa Morimoto

Masato Tamehira

Yoshiyuki Nagai

Yoshiyuki Nishizato

A sheet feeder device is provided with a pick-up roller driving section which is operative to position the pick-up roller into a retracted position spaced a predetermined distance apart from a stack of document sheets on a document tray before and after the operation for feeding the series of document sheets, into a sheet feed position in which the pick-up roller abuts against the stack of document sheets for feeding the document sheets at an occasion of feeding of each of the document sheets in the operation for feeding the series of document sheets, and into the standby position above and close to the height of a stack of a maximum load number of document sheets carried on the document tray during a period from a point in time just after feeding of one sheet to a point in time just before feeding of a succeeding sheet.

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Nara, Japan

Syoutaro Okamoto