Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorIchiro Fukada
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Abstract
A sheet feeding device includes a sheet loading portion which is capable of elevating operation and on which a sheet is loaded, a feeding member for feeding the sheet loaded on the sheet loading portion, the feeding member being capable of elevating movement between a contacting position in contact with the sheet and a distanced position distanced upward from the sheet, and a control portion that controls the elevating operation of the sheet loading portion and the elevating movement of the feeding member. When the feeding member at the contacting position moves to the distanced position, the feeding member is distanced upward from the sheet loaded on the sheet loading portion after the sheet loading portion starts a descending operation.
Claims9
A sheet feeding device, comprising:
- a sheet loading portion configured to be movable, and on which a sheet is loaded;
- a feeding member for feeding the sheet loaded on the sheet loading portion, the feeding member configured to be movable between a contacting state in contact with the sheet, and a distanced state distanced upward from the sheet;
- a detecting unit for detecting whether or not the feeding member is at a feeding position where the sheet can be fed;
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- a control portion that controls a moving operation of the sheet loading portion and a moving operation of the feeding member,
- wherein, in a case in which the control portion moves the feeding member from the contacting state to the distanced state, the control portion stops a movement of the feeding member at a timing at which the detecting unit detects that the feeding member is at the feeding position after detecting the feeding member is not at the feeding position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.