Medium supply device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsYuichi Araki, Kazuhiko Horikawa, Ryosuke Yonesaka
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Abstract
A medium supply device includes: a loading unit on which media are loadable in an up-down direction; a supply unit that supplies air to a plural media loaded on the loading unit to float and separate the plural media; a transporting unit that sequentially feed the media that are floated and separated by the supply unit; a photographing unit that photographs a state in which the media are floated and separated by the supply unit; and a light irradiation unit that irradiates end portions of the media on a photographing side of the photographing unit with light from a plural different positions in the up-down direction.
Claims18
A medium supply device comprising:
- a loading unit on which media are loadable in an up-down direction;
- a supply unit that supplies air to a plurality of the media loaded on the loading unit to float and separate the plurality of media;
- a transporting unit that sequentially feed the media that are floated and separated by the supply unit;
- a photographing unit that photographs a state in which the media are floated and separated by the supply unit;
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- a light irradiation unit that irradiates end portions of the media on a photographing side of the photographing unit with light from a plurality of different positions in the up-down direction,
- wherein the light irradiation unit has a plurality of lighting units arranged at different positions in the up-down direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.