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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2004
Yuji Koga, Nagoya, JP;
Masahiko Sasa, Nagoya, JP;
Yuji Koga, Nagoya, JP;
Masahiko Sasa, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A feeding device capable of feeding sheets one after another in a feed direction, including: (a) a sheet accommodator capable of accommodating the sheets piled therein; and (b) a dust remover including a contact portion which is held in contact with a surface of an uppermost one of the sheets piled in the sheet accommodator so as to remove dust from the surface of the uppermost sheet that is fed from the sheet accommodator in the feed direction. Also disclosed is a data processing apparatus including: (i) the above-described feeing device; and (ii) at least one of an image reader and a printer head, to which the sheets are fed to be subjected to respective operations achieved by the above-described at least one of the image reader and the printer head.