US 2016/0297633 A1 · SHEET FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

Abstract

Provided are a sheet feeding device and an image forming apparatus which can separately feed a sheet with safety without causing the length of an adsorption member to be increased. One end of a flexible adsorption member (29) is fixed to a holding member (24) which is disposed on the upper side of a storing unit to store the sheet and rotated in a sheet feeding direction. Then, when the holding member (24) is rotated, the rigidity of a second region (29b) of the adsorption member (29) is set to be lower than that of a first region (29a) of the adsorption member (29) which comes into surface contact with the sheet stored in the storing unit and adsorbs the sheet by an adsorbing force by static electricity.

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Dependent claims

A sheet feeding device comprising:

a loading portion configured to be loaded with a sheet;
a rotation member configured to be disposed on an upper side of the loading portion;
and
an adsorption member configured to have ends and to be provided such that a part of the adsorption member is fixed to the rotation member and the sheet loaded on the loading portion is electrically adsorbed,
wherein the adsorption member includes an adsorption portion which comes into contact with the sheet loaded on the loading portion, and a support portion which is provided at a position near the rotation member from the adsorption portion and has a rigidity lower than that of the adsorption portion with respect to a force applied from a sheet feeding direction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus

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Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus

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Abstract

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