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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2017
Applicant:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Kouji Mori, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/06 (2006.01); B65H 1/14 (2006.01); B65H 3/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/0684 (2013.01); B65H 1/14 (2013.01); B65H 3/565 (2013.01); B65H 2404/144 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sheet feed device includes a stacking tray on which sheets P are stacked, and feed rollers convey the sheets P from the stacking tray. The sheet feed device also includes a pressing lever configured to press back, when there is a sheet picked up from the stacking tray and is in a state of being nipped between feed rollers, a leading end of the sheet P toward the stacking tray, and a roller separating mechanism configured to separate the sheet feed rollers performing the nipping from each other, when the pressing member performs the operation of pressing back the sheet.