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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2021
Applicant:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Inventor:
Kenji Kuroda, Sakai, JP;
Assignee:
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 1/04 (2013.01); B65H 2403/411 (2013.01); B65H 2405/114 (2013.01); B65H 2511/12 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A document feed device including a document tray and a document guide. The document guide has a document guide side document loader and a document guide member. The document tray includes a groove. The document guide, at an end of the document guide side document loader in the width direction, includes: a scooper, and an upstream outline portion that is formed so as to gradually approach the document guide member toward an upstream side in the conveying direction with the scooper as an apex.