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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2003
Applicants:
Hiroshi Nishikawa, Toyokawa, JP;
Noritoshi Maruchi, Toyokawa, JP;
Tohru Murakami, Okazaki, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Company, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus for transporting sheets into a fixed image reading position has a drive roller and a pad. The pad has a lower layer made of a flexible material and an upper layer provided on the lower layer and made of rigid material in the form of film with a kinetic friction coefficient of 0.2 or less. The is biased to the drive roller so that the upper layer contacts a peripheral surface of the drive roller to form a nipping region between the drive roller and the pad by a compressive deformation of the flexible lower layer of the pad.