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US 2022/0021778 A1Published application
Document feeder and image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYASUMASA MORIMOTO, HIRONORI OGASAWARA
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Abstract
A document feeder includes an apparatus body to which a document feed unit is attached, a sheet feed tray that moves up and down toward the document feed unit, an open/close cover attached openably and closably to the apparatus body and opens the document transport path and the document feed unit when opened, and a unit pressing arm attached to the open/close cover. When the open/close cover is closed, the unit pressing arm presses the document feed unit toward the sheet feed tray.
Claims8
A document feeder equipped with a document feed unit that feeds a document into a document transport path, comprising:
- an apparatus body to which the document feed unit is attached;
- a sheet feed tray that moves up and down toward the document feed unit and on which the document is placed;
- an open/close cover attached openably and closably to the apparatus body and, when opened, opening the document transport path and the document feed unit;
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- a unit pressing member attached to the open/close cover, wherein
- the unit pressing member presses the document feed unit toward the sheet feed tray when the open/close cover is closed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.