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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1999
Kevin Dean Schoedinger, Nicholasville, KY (US);
Ronald Todd Sellers, Lexington, KY (US);
Scott Stephen Williams, Versailles, KY (US);
Phillip Byron Wright, Lexington, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for controlling a sheet feeder assembly for an imaging apparatus, the sheet feeder assembly including a motor coupled to a gear train for applying a rotational force to a sheet picker roller, a media supply tray for holding a media stack having a plurality of media sheets, and a buckler for buckling a top sheet of print media to separate the top sheet from the media stack, the method including the steps of driving the sheet picker roller at a initial velocity until a backlash of the gear train is eliminated and/or the top sheet has been buckled; and thereafter, accelerating the sheet picker roller from the initial velocity to a target velocity using selectable sheet picker roller velocity profiles.