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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2020
Applicants:
Ryohei Morisaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigefumi Soga, Kanagawa, JP;
Chisa Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/06 (2006.01); B65H 9/16 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/12 (2006.01); B65H 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/062 (2013.01); B65H 7/02 (2013.01); B65H 9/166 (2013.01); H04N 1/00588 (2013.01); H04N 1/1215 (2013.01); B65H 2405/11161 (2013.01); B65H 2405/1412 (2013.01); B65H 2511/13 (2013.01); B65H 2513/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sheet feeding device includes a roller pair being mutually non-separable; and a roller pair being mutually separable. The sheet feeding device temporarily stops a sheet in a registration position of the non-separable roller pair and then resumes feeding the sheet. The sheet feeding device feeds sheets such that a following sheet reaches the registration position from the separable roller pair after completion of ejection of a preceding sheet.