US 11,866,287 B2
Sheet feeding device and an image forming apparatus with a sheet feeding device
Noriaki Koyanagi, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/347,790.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-115350 (JP), filed on Jul. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0002102 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 5/36 (2006.01); B65H 85/00 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 5/36 (2013.01) [B65H 5/06 (2013.01); B65H 85/00 (2013.01); B65H 2513/41 (2013.01); G03G 15/652 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet feeding device comprising:
a reversing roller configured to reverse a sheet by feeding the sheet with respect to a first direction and then feeding the sheet with respect to a second direction opposite to the first direction;
a guide member including a curved portion to curve inside a first surface of the sheet and configured to guide the sheet along said curved portion in contact with a second surface opposite to the first surface of the sheet fed by said reversing roller with respect to the first direction; and
a rotatable member disposed to be opposed to a sheet guide surface in said curved portion with a gap and configured to be rotated by contacting with the first surface of the sheet fed by said reversing roller,
wherein when the sheet is fed by said reversing roller with respect to the second direction, said rotatable member is rotated by contact of the first surface of the sheet with said rotatable member.