US 12,077,402 B2
Image processing apparatus
Tianjin Xie, Nagoya (JP); and Akinari Ishibe, Okazaki (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/516,285.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-185323 (JP), filed on Nov. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0144566 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 3/34 (2006.01); B65H 3/06 (2006.01); B65H 3/52 (2006.01); B65H 3/56 (2006.01); B65H 3/68 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); B65H 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 3/34 (2013.01) [B65H 3/0669 (2013.01); B65H 3/0684 (2013.01); B65H 3/5215 (2013.01); B65H 3/5261 (2013.01); B65H 3/56 (2013.01); B65H 3/68 (2013.01); B65H 5/062 (2013.01); B65H 7/04 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
a support surface configured to support a sheet;
a sheet feeding roller configured to feed the sheet supported by the support surface in a conveying direction;
a separation member for separating the sheet supported by the support surface one by one, the separation member being positioned downstream of the sheet feeding roller in the conveying direction; and
a regulating member displaceable between a first position and a second position, the first position being a position where the regulating member abuts against a distal end of the sheet supported by the support surface to regulate passage of the sheet in the conveying direction between the sheet feeding roller and the separation member, the second position being a position that is farther from a conveyance path than the first position and that allows passage of the sheet in the conveying direction, the regulating member having a wall surface that abuts against the distal end of the sheet and including at least one protrusion on the wall surface,
wherein the support surface intersects the regulating member at an inclined surface of a predetermined portion of the support surface when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the conveying direction, the predetermined portion being inclined upward to a downstream side in the conveying direction and being positioned at a position in the conveying direction where the abutment surface is positioned when the regulating member is at the first position.