US 12,252,368 B2
Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
Masaki Seto, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/966,004.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-173907 (JP), filed on Oct. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0130978 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 1/04 (2006.01); B65H 1/14 (2006.01); B65H 1/26 (2006.01); B65H 3/66 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 3/66 (2013.01) [B65H 1/14 (2013.01); B65H 2301/42324 (2013.01); B65H 2701/1313 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
a stacking portion on which sheets are stacked;
a feed member provided above the stacking portion and configured to feed an uppermost sheet among the sheets stacked on the stacking portion toward a sheet feeding direction; and
a trailing-end regulating member movable in the sheet feeding direction and configured to regulate a position of a trailing end of the sheets stacked on the stacking portion in the sheet feeding direction,
wherein the trailing-end regulating member includes a support portion configured to support a lower surface of the sheets stacked on the stacking portion,
wherein the support portion has a projecting shape in which a center portion of the support portion, in a sheet width direction, projects upward as compared with end portions of the support portion in the sheet width direction, the sheet width direction being a direction perpendicular to both the sheet feeding direction and an up-down direction,
wherein the trailing-end regulating member further includes a body portion to which the support portion is detachably attached, and
wherein the body portion from which the support portion is detached is capable of regulating the position of the trailing end of the sheets on the stacking portion.