Feeding apparatus, electronic apparatus including feeding apparatus, and feeding method

An electronic apparatus, comprising:

• a feeding apparatus, comprising:
• an object feeding path;
• a temporary object feeding path branched from said object feeding path;
• an object feeding unit arranged on said object feeding path, said object feeding unit feeding an object;
• and
• a pair of rollers arranged on said temporary object feeding path, said pair of rollers pinching said object and feeding said object from said object feeding path toward said temporary object feeding path while keeping one edge of said object as a feeding head, said pair of rollers pinching said object feeding said object from said temporary object feeding path toward said object feeding path while keeping the other edge of said object as a feeding head, wherein
• said pair of rollers includes a first roller which is driven to be rotated, only in a first direction, by a driving source, and a second roller which presses said object against said first roller and which is driven to be rotated, only in a second direction being opposite to the first direction, by the driving source, wherein
• said second roller is supported so as to be moved away from said first roller as said second roller moves closer to said object feeding path from a stationary position where said second roller presses said object against said first roller, and wherein
• said second roller is shifted by frictional force generated between said object and said second roller, so as to be moved away from said first roller after said other edge of said object, fed from said temporary object feeding path toward said object feeding path, reaches to said object feeding unit;
• and
• at least one of a printing head which makes information recorded on an object which is fed on said object feeding path, and a reading head which reads information which is recorded on said object.

A feeding method, comprising:

• a step in which a pair of rollers, which includes a first roller and a second roller which presses an object against said first roller, pinches said object and feeds said object from an object feeding path toward a temporary object feeding path while keeping one edge of said object as a feeding head;
• a step in which said pair of rollers feeds said object from said temporary object feeding path toward said object feeding path while keeping the other edge of said object as a feeding head;
• and
• a step in which said second roller feeds said object as said second roller being shifted by frictional force generated between said object and said second roller, so as to be moved away from said first roller after said other edge of said object fed from said temporary object feeding path toward said object feeding path, reaches to an object feeding unit arranged on said object feeding path
• wherein said first roller is driven to rotate, only in a first direction, by a driving source, and a second roller is driven to be rotated, only in a second direction being opposite to the first direction, by a driving source.