Document feeder and image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShohichi Fukutome, Kenji Kuroda, Hironori Ogasawara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Toshiki Fukunishi
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Abstract
A document feeder includes a document placing tray on which a document is placed; a document discharging tray on which a document discharged from a document discharging port in a discharging direction is stacked; and a light source that radiates light to the document discharging tray. The document discharging tray is disposed below the document placing tray. The document discharging tray has a protruding portion protruding upward from the surrounding area. The light source is disposed within a region having a width that is the same as a document having a maximum size in the width direction.
Claims10
A document feeder comprising:
- a document placing tray on which a document is placed;
- a transporter transporting the document placed on the document placing tray to discharge the document from a document discharging port;
- a document discharging tray disposed below the document placing tray, the document discharged from the document discharging port in a discharging direction being stacked in the document discharging tray;
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- a light source disposed on the document placing tray and radiating light to the document discharging tray, wherein
- the document discharging tray includes a protruding portion protruding farther upward than a surrounding area, and
- the light source is disposed in a region from a center of the document discharging tray in a width direction orthogonal to the discharging direction to an edge of a document having a maximum size to be discharged, the edge on a front side of the document feeder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.