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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kunihiko Katsuta, late of Komaki, JP;
Akiyoshi Johdai, Toyokawa, JP;
Tohru Murakami, Okazaki, JP;
Hirofumi Tanahashi, Toyohashi, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 ;
Abstract
A document feeder which picks up documents from a tray, separates/feeds a document with a feed roller and a separation roller and transports the document on a reading position with read rollers. The speed of feeding a document by the feed roller is higher than the speed of transporting a document by the read rollers. The reading position is at a distance from the nip portion between the feed roller and the separation roller, the distance being longer than the length in the document feeding direction of the document.