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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2011
Hiroshi Wada, Osaka, JP;
Toshio Hori, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiaki Tashiro, Osaka, JP;
Hironori Daigo, Osaka, JP;
Seiji Okada, Osaka, JP;
Yuichiro Tanaka, Osaka, JP;
Nobuhiro Nishioka, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Wada, Osaka, JP;
Toshio Hori, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiaki Tashiro, Osaka, JP;
Hironori Daigo, Osaka, JP;
Seiji Okada, Osaka, JP;
Yuichiro Tanaka, Osaka, JP;
Nobuhiro Nishioka, Osaka, JP;
Kyocera Mita Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A sheet feeder has a tray on which a sheet to be fed is to be placed. A lift plate is at a feeding end of the tray and has a first end at an upstream side in a feeding direction connected rotatably to the tray. The lift plate is displaceable between a feeding posture where a second end at a downstream side in the feeding direction is lifted up and a retracted posture where the second end is lower than in the feeding posture due to its own weight. A biasing member gives a biasing force to an elevating member in a direction to lift the lift plate to the feeding posture. A lowering mechanism gives a pressing force against the force of the biasing member to lower the lift plate to the retracted posture.