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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:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2019
Applicant:
Makoto Noda, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Makoto Noda, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/00 (2006.01); B65H 29/12 (2006.01); B65G 29/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/006 (2013.01); G03G 15/602 (2013.01); B65H 2301/422 (2013.01);
Abstract
A document feeder assisting device includes a document stacker to stack a document to be conveyed toward a feed port of an automatic document feeder, a pressing device to press the document toward a document placement surface of the document stacker, and a conveyance device to convey the document. The document is stacked on the document placement surface exposed above with the pressing device moved.