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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka-shi, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Maeda, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 1/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B65H 1/12 (2006.01); B65H 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/6514 (2013.01); B65H 1/04 (2013.01); B65H 1/12 (2013.01); B65H 3/0669 (2013.01); B65H 2405/324 (2013.01); B65H 2407/21 (2013.01); B65H 2511/12 (2013.01); B65H 2511/22 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A manual feed tray includes a tray body and a lift unit, and the lift unit includes a lift plate, a lift spring and a pair of cursors. The cursor includes a guide portion. When the manual feed tray is closed from a sheet feeding state of the lift plate, the guide portion comes into contact with a facing wall portion, whereby a downstream side of the lift plate in a covering direction moves downward. Thus, even if the manual feed tray is closed with the lift plate moved upward, the lift plate smoothly moves downward.