US 12,312,191 B2
Feeding device and image forming apparatus
Ichiro Fukada, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/061,071.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-201639 (JP), filed on Dec. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0183030 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 1/04 (2013.01) [B65H 2405/1122 (2013.01); B65H 2511/11 (2013.01); B65H 2511/20 (2013.01); B65H 2553/61 (2013.01); B65H 2553/82 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A feeding device for feeding a sheet, comprising:
an accommodating unit configured to accommodate a recording material;
a feeding member configured to feed the recording material accommodated in the accommodating unit;
a regulating member movable in a feeding direction of the recording material by the feeding member and configured to regulate a position of an end portion of the recording material on an upstream side of the feeding direction;
a member-to-be-detected movable in the feeding direction in interrelation with the regulating member;
a detecting device configured to detect a size of the recording material accommodated in the accommodating unit and of which out signal changes depending on the member-to-be-detected; and
a connecting member connected to the regulating member at one end and to the member-to-be-detected at the other end and which urges the member-to-be-detected and the regulating member in a mutually attracting direction,
wherein the regulating member contacts the member-to-be-detected in a first region with respect to the feeding direction and is spaced from the member-to-be-detected through the connecting member in a second region different from the first region with respect to the feeding direction.