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US 2003/0146561 A1Published application
Automatic document feeder having a document-ejecting/feeding mechanism
OwnerChih-Yang Chen, Chi-Yao Cheninventors
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Abstract
A document-ejecting/feeding mechanism is assembled inside an automatic document feeder, includes a driving device, gears, one-way clutches and rollers. After feeding action is canceled, the driving device is reversed and cooperates with the action of gears and one-way clutches, and at least one of rollers that near the paper-ejecting position is still rolled to the paper ejecting direction. Therefore, after the feeding action is canceled, the document will be still moved out from the feeder automatically and not tore.
Claims6
An automatic document feeder, comprising:
- a body having an input end from which a document is input and an output end from which the document is output;
- a document ejecting/feeding mechanism located in the body and between the input end and the output end, and having a plurality of rollers and a driving device for driving the rollers, wherein at least one of the plurality of rollers located close to the output end is rotated in an output direction for outputting the document away from the output end when the driving device rotates clockwise, and in the output direction when the driving device rotates counterclockwise.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.