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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSeita Inoue, Akihiro Kawakita, Teruhito Kai, Hiroaki Tomiyasu, Tatsuo Fujimura
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A sheet feeding apparatus includes an opening and closing portion including a supporting portion, the opening and closing portion configured to move to a closed position and to an opened position that is a sheet feeding position, a sheet feeding portion, an opening and closing detection portion configured to detect the sheet feeding position, a separating portion configured to blow air toward the plurality of sheets supported on the supporting portion to separate the sheets, and a control portion configured to execute a separating mode of performing an air blowing operation by the separating portion in feeding the sheets by the sheet feeding portion. In the separating mode, the control portion is configured to stop the air blowing operation in a case where movement of the opening and closing portion from the sheet feeding position toward the closed position has been detected by the opening and closing detection portion.
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
An image forming apparatus comprising:
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