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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2020
Applicant:
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Koji Fujii, Osaka, JP;
Taro Kurahashi, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 1/14 (2006.01); B65H 3/06 (2006.01); B65H 7/18 (2006.01); B65H 7/04 (2006.01); B65H 3/52 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/062 (2013.01); H04N 1/00602 (2013.01); B65H 2801/39 (2013.01);
Abstract
The document feeder includes a lift plate, a pickup roller, a lift motor, a retard roller, and a control unit. In a manual feed mode, the control unit rotates the retard roller to feed a document in a document conveyance direction. Further, the control unit causes the lift motor to start lowering the lift plate while the pickup roller is feeding a document after starting to rotate the pickup roller. When there is a document set on the lift plate at the time when the pickup roller stops, the control unit automatically resumes the feeding in the manual feed mode.