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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2010
Akiyuki Mitamura, Toride, JP;
Akiyuki Mitamura, Toride, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a sheet feeding apparatus, an image reading apparatus and an image forming apparatus, an original document tray on which sheets are accommodated along the sheet feeding direction includes a placing plate on which the sheets are placed and which can be lifted and lowered and to move the sheets to a position at which the sheets can be fed by a pickup roller, a detection unit which detects that sheets are placed on the placing plate, and a curl suppressing member which presses a central portion in a width direction perpendicular to the sheet feeding direction of the accommodated sheets to suppress upward curl of downstream edges in the sheet feeding direction of the sheets.