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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2012
Toshihiro Okutsu, Miyagi, JP;
Munehisa Fuda, Miyagi, JP;
Hideyuki Satoh, Miyagi, JP;
Taewon Kim, Miyagi, JP;
Toshihiro Okutsu, Miyagi, JP;
Munehisa Fuda, Miyagi, JP;
Hideyuki Satoh, Miyagi, JP;
Taewon Kim, Miyagi, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording medium supplying device includes a recording medium mounting portion on which sheet-like recording media are capable of being mounted in a stacked state, an air discharging unit that blows air to the recording media in the stacked state so as to make recording medium at an uppermost position float, a conveying unit that adsorbs and conveys the floating recording medium at the uppermost position, an upper surface position detecting unit that makes contact with an uppermost surface of the recording media in the stacked state and detects a height position of the uppermost surface, and a pressing force varying mechanism that makes a pressing force of the upper surface position detecting unit on the uppermost surface of the recording media variable.