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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2015
Hiroshi Kubo, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Fujii, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinya Kitaoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Norio Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Kubo, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Fujii, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinya Kitaoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Norio Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic document feeder comprises: a feeding unit that causes an image of a first side of a document to be read by a first image reading unit; a second image reading unit that reads an image of a second side of the document; a release unit that supports a reading guide opposite to a reading surface of the second image reading unit and enables underneath of the reading surface to be released; and a paper ejection tray on which the document having been subjected to image reading and ejected from a paper ejection roller pair is accumulated, wherein an end fence that rises up at a document ejection direction upstream side of the paper ejection tray is configured of separate members that are an upper portion and a lower portion, and a rotational pivot of the release unit is provided downstream from the end fence in a feeding direction.