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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2009
Hiroshi Shiraiwa, Ishikawa, JP;
Minoru Masuda, Ishikawa, JP;
Ryoichi Yasukawa, Ishikawa, JP;
Masaya Takamori, Ishikawa, JP;
Hiroshi Shiraiwa, Ishikawa, JP;
Minoru Masuda, Ishikawa, JP;
Ryoichi Yasukawa, Ishikawa, JP;
Masaya Takamori, Ishikawa, JP;
PFU Limited, Ishikawa, JP;
Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a feeding unit capable of feeding a sheet-like medium, plural speed detecting units capable of respectively detecting a speed of the medium fed by the feeding unit, at plural positions along a width direction of the medium orthogonal to a feeding direction of the medium, and a bound-medium detecting unit capable of detecting the medium having a part thereof bound with another one of the medium, based on the speed detected respectively by the speed detecting units.