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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2009
Applicant:
Tsugio Okamoto, Gifu, JP;
Inventor:
Tsugio Okamoto, Gifu, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, Aichi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sheet feeding device to feed a sheet in a sheet stack into a sheet feeding path is provided. the sheet feeding device includes a feed roller configured to contact the sheet stack and feed the sheet in a feeding direction, a guide member, having a guide surface, which is configured to contact a side of the sheet fed by the feeding roller, to guide the sheet being fed along a guiding direction, and a shifting unit to shift the feed roller in a direction toward the guide surface before the feed roller is rotated.