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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2007
Masami Fuchi, Osaka, JP;
Masami Fuchi, Osaka, JP;
Kyocera Mita Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A sheet feeder is provided with a sheet accommodating portion, an elevating plate and an inclining mechanism. The sheet accommodating portion includes a bottom plate and a plurality of side plates provided perpendicular to the bottom plate, and can accommodate a plurality of sheets. The sheets accommodated in the sheet accommodating portion are successively fed to the outside from the uppermost one. The elevating plate is movable upward and downward and used to stack the sheets in the sheet accommodating portion. The inclining mechanism inclines the elevating plate such that the front ends of the sheets with respect to a sheet feeding direction are inclined downward during sheet feeding.