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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2005
Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Nagano, JP;
Satoshi Negishi, Nagano, JP;
Naoki Horie, Nagano, JP;
Katsumi Okuhara, Nagano, JP;
Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Nagano, JP;
Satoshi Negishi, Nagano, JP;
Naoki Horie, Nagano, JP;
Katsumi Okuhara, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for driving a medium supplying apparatus which supplies medium by a pick-up roller, wherein an operation of stopping rotation of the pick-up roller is inserted at least one of before an operation of supplying medium to a separating position where, when a plurality of sheets of medium are fed together by the pick-up roller displaced to the supplying position, an uppermost sheet of the plurality of sheets of medium is separated from a lower sheet or sheets, and before an operation of returning the separated lower sheet or sheets after separating the uppermost sheet from the lower sheet or sheets.