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US 6,135,439 AGranted
Sheet feeding apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhiko Ikeda
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a sheet feeding apparatus comprising a sheet supporting mechanism, a sheet feeding mechanism, a driving mechanism, a sheet detecting device, and a drive control device for controlling the driving mechanism in such a manner that, even when the driving mechanism is operated at a predetermined speed for a predetermined time period, if the sheet is not detected by the sheet detecting device, the driving mechanism is operated at a speed slower than the predetermined speed.
Claims11
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
- a sheet supporting means for supporting a sheet;
- a sheet feeding means for feeding the sheet supported by said sheet supporting means;
- a driving means for driving said sheet feeding means;
- a sheet detecting means for detecting the sheet fed by said sheet feeding means;
- and
- a drive control means for controlling said driving means in such a manner that, even when said driving means is operated at a predetermined speed for a predetermined time period, if the sheet is not detected by said sheet detecting means, said driving means is operated at a speed slower than the predetermined speed.
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A recording apparatus comprising:
- a sheet supporting means for supporting a sheet;
- a sheet feeding means for feeding the sheet supported by said sheet supporting means;
- a driving means for driving said sheet feeding means;
- a sheet detecting means for detecting the sheet fed by said sheet feeding means;
- a drive control means for controlling said driving means in such a manner that, even when said driving means is operated at a predetermined speed for a predetermined time period, if the sheet is not detected by said sheet detecting means, said driving means is operated at a speed slower than the predetermined speed;
- and
- a recording means for effecting recording on the sheet fed out by said sheet feeding means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.