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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2023
Applicant:
Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Joji Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Haruhiko Kojima, Kanagawa, JP;
AI Nakao, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 7/20 (2006.01); G06K 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 7/20 (2013.01); G06K 15/16 (2013.01); B65H 2557/23 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sheet feeder includes: multiple sheet feeding trays each configured to house one or more print media sheets; and a processor configured to cause a sheet feeding tray assigned a top priority to feed a print media sheet after the sheet feeding tray is set up for sheet feeding and a state of the sheet feeding tray is fixed, the top priority being highest among priorities that are assigned to the multiple sheet feeding trays and that are determined in advance with regard to sheet feeding.