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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2007
Applicants:
Nobuhiko Kita, Osaka, JP;
Sei Onuma, Osaka, JP;
Ryoh Idehara, Hyogo, JP;
Kazuyoshi Kondo, Osaka, JP;
Yuusuke Furuichi, Osaka, JP;
Genta Hagiwara, Ibaraki, JP;
Kaoru Tada, Ibaraki, JP;
Inventors:
Nobuhiko Kita, Osaka, JP;
Sei Onuma, Osaka, JP;
Ryoh Idehara, Hyogo, JP;
Kazuyoshi Kondo, Osaka, JP;
Yuusuke Furuichi, Osaka, JP;
Genta Hagiwara, Ibaraki, JP;
Kaoru Tada, Ibaraki, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/26 (2006.01); B65H 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a paper feeder, a signal switching unit switches a paper present signal output from a paper detector to a paper absent signal indicative of absence of a paper in the second paper cassette if a first paper cassette is pulled out from a specific position.