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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2009
Takashi Watanabe, Toyokawa, JP;
Toshikazu Higashi, Toyokawa, JP;
Takeshi Ishida, Toyohashi, JP;
Masahiro Nonoyama, Toyokawa, JP;
Takashi Watanabe, Toyokawa, JP;
Toshikazu Higashi, Toyokawa, JP;
Takeshi Ishida, Toyohashi, JP;
Masahiro Nonoyama, Toyokawa, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic document feeder devicehas a device bodydisposed on a platenof a document reading deviceand pivotably openable relative to the deviceby being hingedly connected thereto. The deviceincludes detectorsfor detecting a document-stack state of at least one of a feeder and an output trayprovided on the body, a driverfor driving the bodyto be pivotably opened in an upward direction from the platen, an instructorfor giving an instruction for the driving, and a controllerfor, based on a detection result of the detectorsin priority to the instruction, to permit or forbid the driving, or to control an amount of the driving. When the device body is automatically opened, documents in the feeder or the output tray are unlikely to fall off.