US 11,767,184 B2
Feeder and image forming apparatus
Shoichi Maeda, Kanagawa (JP); Masahito Niwa, Kanagawa (JP); Yuichi Araki, Kanagawa (JP); and Yoshiki Kimura, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/225,120.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-153093 (JP), filed on Sep. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0082978 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 3/48 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B65H 1/18 (2006.01); B65H 1/14 (2006.01); B65H 3/08 (2006.01); B65H 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 3/48 (2013.01) [B65H 1/14 (2013.01); B65H 1/18 (2013.01); B65H 3/0833 (2013.01); B65H 7/02 (2013.01); G03G 15/6511 (2013.01); B65H 2511/11 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A feeder comprising:
a body;
a mount portion disposed in the body and comprising a mount surface configured to support from below part of recording media stacked thereon;
a lift that raises the mount portion;
a support portion being an extension of the mount portion and connected to the body to support from below another part of the recording media while the mount portion is raised, the support portion being located higher than a position of the mount surface of the mount portion while the recording media are stacked on the mount portion;
a blowing portion comprising an outlet that discharges and blows air between the recording media stacked on the mount portion;
a transport portion comprising a suction portion that sucks and transports an uppermost one of the recording media stacked on the mount portion, wherein the suction portion comprises a housing and a plurality of suction ports disposed in a lower portion of the housing; and
a sensor that detects a position of an uppermost one of the recording media stacked on the mount portion,
wherein a height of the support portion is higher than a height of a detection position that is to be detected by the sensor, which is a height of an uppermost one of the recording media stacked on the mount portion detected by the sensor.