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US 12,729,083 B2Granted
Feeding device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsShinya Mitorida, Shohei Matsunami
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Abstract
A feeding device includes a blowing unit that floats a plurality of stacked media by blowing air to side end portions of the media and that has a first blowing unit which blows the air from a defined region to the media and a second blowing unit which blows the air from a changing region to the media, a feeding unit that feeds the floating media, and a control unit that has a control mode in which the first blowing unit and the second blowing unit simultaneously perform air blowing on the media.
Claims17
A feeding device comprising:
- a blowing unit that floats a plurality of stacked media by blowing air to side end portions of the media and that has a first blowing unit which blows the air from a defined region to the media and a second blowing unit which blows the air from a changing region to the media;
- a feeding unit that feeds the floating media;
- and
- a control unit that has a control mode in which the first blowing unit and the second blowing unit simultaneously perform air blowing on the media,
- wherein the blowing unit has a blowing pipe of the air, a first blowing port, which is the first blowing unit, and a second blowing port, which is the second blowing unit, both of which configure an outlet unit of the blowing pipe,
- wherein the blowing unit has a moving member that configures the outlet unit of the blowing pipe and that is movable in an up-down direction, and
- the first blowing port and the second blowing port are provided in the moving member.
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A feeding device comprising:
- a blowing unit that floats a plurality of stacked media by blowing air to side end portions of the media and that has a first blowing port which blows the air from a defined region to the media and a second blowing port which blows the air from a changing region to the media;
- a feeding unit that feeds the floating media;
- and
- a control unit that has a control mode in which the first blowing port and the second blowing port simultaneously perform air blowing on the media,
- wherein the blowing unit has a blowing pipe of the air, and an outlet unit of the blowing pipe is configured by the first blowing port and the second blowing port,
- wherein the blowing unit has a moving member that configures the outlet unit of the blowing pipe and that is movable in an up-down direction, and
- the first blowing port and the second blowing port are provided in the moving member.
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A feeding device comprising:
- a blowing unit that floats a plurality of stacked media by blowing air to side end portions of the media and that has a first blowing unit which blows the air from a defined region to the media and a second blowing unit which blows the air from a changing region to the media;
- a feeding unit that feeds the floating media;
- and
- a control unit that has a control mode in which the first blowing unit and the second blowing unit simultaneously perform air blowing on the media,
- wherein the blowing unit has a blowing pipe of the air, a first blowing port serving as the first blowing unit, and a second blowing port serving as the second blowing unit,
- wherein the first blowing port extends from an upward direction to a downward direction, and
- the second blowing port extends in a direction intersecting a direction in which the first blowing port extends with respect to a moving member that configures an outlet unit of the blowing pipe and that is movable in an up-down direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.