US 11,795,017 B2
Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
Tatsuo Nishiyama, Kanagawa (JP); and Tomoya Tateishi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/718,488.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-071278 (JP), filed on Apr. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0332530 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 3/68 (2006.01); B65H 1/04 (2006.01); B65H 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 3/68 (2013.01) [B65H 1/04 (2013.01); B65H 3/0684 (2013.01); B65H 2405/324 (2013.01); B65H 2407/21 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
an apparatus body including an abutting portion;
an opening/closing member supported pivotably by the apparatus body and configured to pivot between a closed state and an opened state, the opening/closing member in the closed state being positioned in a posture along a side face of the apparatus body, the opening/closing member in the opened state protruding outside the apparatus body with respect to the side face;
a stacking member provided on the opening/closing member and configured to support a sheet thereon in the opened state of the opening/closing member;
a feeding member configured to rotate around a rotational axis extending in a first direction and feed the sheet stacked on the stacking member;
a conveyance unit including a separation portion and configured to convey a sheet fed by the feeding member while separating the sheet one by one in the separation portion; and
a guide configured to guide a leading edge of the sheet conveyed by the feeding member from the stacking member toward the separation portion, the guide including a supported portion supported pivotably by the apparatus body and an abutted portion configured to be abutted against the abutting portion, the guide being configured to move in interrelation with an operation of closing the opening/closing member and to be positioned inside the apparatus body with respect to the opening/closing member in the closed state of the opening/closing member,
wherein (i) in the opened state of the opening/closing member, an upstream end of the guide in a second direction is positioned at a first position, the second direction being a horizontal direction directed from outside to inside of the apparatus body with respect to the side face when viewed in the first direction, (ii) in the closed state of the opening/closing member, an upstream end of the guide in the second direction is positioned at a second position, and (iii) the second position is located downstream of the first position in the second direction, and
wherein in the opened state of the opening/closing member, the guide is configured to be restricted from pivoting by the abutted portion being abutted against the abutting portion.