US 12,404,124 B2
Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus
Huy Quoc Duong, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed by KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/494,377.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-172442 (JP), filed on Oct. 27, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0140744 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. B65H 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 3/06 (2013.01) [B65H 2301/531 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet feeding device comprising:
a sheet feeding roller which comes into contact with a sheet and then is rotated to feed the sheet in a predetermined sheet feeding direction;
a sheet conveying roller disposed on a downstream side of the sheet feeding roller in the sheet feeding direction;
a separation roller forming a separation nip between the sheet conveying roller and the separation roller, and conveying the sheet while separating the sheets at the separation nip; and
a cleaning member disposed on an upstream side of the separation nip in the sheet feeding direction, and cleaning a surface of the separation roller, wherein
the cleaning member is configured to be deformable to be separated from the surface of the separation roller when the sheet feeding roller does not feed the sheet and to come into contact with the surface of the separation roller by the sheet fed by the sheet feeding roller.