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Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999

Filed:

Oct. 01, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:

Kunihiko Katsuta, deceased, late of Komaki, JP;

Assignee:

Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355316 ; 271259 ;
Abstract

A document feeder which separates a single document from some picked-up documents and feeds the document toward a reading position with a feed roller and a separation roller, and which transports the document on the reading position with a first pair and a second pair of read rollers. The distance between the feed/separation rollers and the first pair of read rollers is shorter than the length of a document of a minimum regular size, the distance between the feed/separation rollers and the reading position is longer than the length of a document of the minimum regular size, and the distance between the feed/separation rollers and the second pair of rollers is shorter than the length of a document of one size larger than the minimum regular size.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Katsuta, deceased, Kunihiko. (1999). Document feeder and image reading apparatus provided with the document (U.S. Patent No. 5920381). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5920381

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