Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuhiro Hosohara
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Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a stacking plate configured to stack sheets, a sheet feeding unit configured to feed the sheets by contacting the sheets stacked on the stacking plate, an elevating unit configured to elevate the stacking plate by a drive transmitted from a drive unit, a drive transmission unit configured to transmit the drive from the drive unit to drive the sheet feeding unit, and a clutch mechanism configured to cause the drive transmission unit to transmit the drive from the drive unit to the sheet feeding unit after the elevating unit urges the sheets stacked on the stacking plate toward the sheet feeding unit by elevating the stacking plate.
Claims1
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
- a stacking plate configured to stack sheets;
- a sheet feeding unit configured to feed the sheets by contacting the sheets stacked on the stacking plate;
- an elevating unit configured to elevate the stacking plate by a drive transmitted from a drive unit;
- a drive transmission unit configured to transmit the drive from the drive unit to drive the sheet feeding unit;
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- a clutch mechanism configured to cause the drive transmission unit to transmit the drive from the drive unit to the sheet feeding unit after the elevating unit urges the sheets stacked on the stacking plate toward the sheet feeding unit by elevating the stacking plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.