Image forming apparatus and image forming method
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorKazuhiko Yoshida
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming part; a sheet container that contains sheets fed to the image forming part in a stacked state; a feed roller that feeds the sheet from the sheet container; a separation member in press-contact with the feed roller that separates the sheet at a contact point formed between the feed roller and the separation member; and a press-contact force reducing unit that reduces a press contact force of the separation member to the feed roller while maintaining an approximately constant sheet separating force with the separation member.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming part;
- a sheet container that contains sheets fed to the image forming part in a stacked state;
- a feed roller that feeds the sheet from the sheet container;
- a separation member in press-contact with the feed roller that separates the sheet at a contact point formed between the feed roller and the separation member;
- a rocking member, rockably provided with respect to a main body of the image forming apparatus, that supports the separation member;
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- a rocking fulcrum moving unit that moves a rocking fulcrum of the rocking member.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- forming means for forming an image;
- containing means for containing sheets fed to the forming means in a stacked state;
- feed means for feeding the sheet from the containing means;
- separation means in press-contact with the feed means for separating the sheet at a contact point formed between the feed means and the separation means;
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- press-contact force reducing means for reducing a press contact force of the separation means to the feed means while maintaining an approximately constant sheet separating force with the separation means;
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- a rocking means including a rocking fulcrum. rockably provided with respect to a main body of the image forming apparatus, that supports the separation means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.