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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2001
Chiharu Matsukawa, Osaka, JP;
Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Daito, JP;
Abstract
A sheet feeder has a sheet tray that rotates around a shaft perpendicularly to a sheet mounting surface, and is accommodated in a sheet feeder body. The sheet feeder has a sheet tray disposed to rotate around the shaft and connected to the tray so that the tray partly overlaps with the tray , and is accommodated in the sheet feeder body, and an abutting rib for forwardly pushing the tray when the sheet trays and are connected together. A part of the sheet tray overlapping with the sheet tray , has a thin portion . A part of the tray , overlapping with the sheet tray , has a thin portion . The thin portions and butt against each other in an overlapping portion where the sheet trays and overlap with each other.