Sheet supply device

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8840217
APP PUB NO 20130342602A1
SERIAL NO

13916003

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A sheet supply device includes registration rollers for feeding a print sheet, a sheet supply roller for feeding a print sheet to the registration rollers, and a controller configured to control the registration rollers and the sheet supply roller. The controller is operable to start first rotation of the sheet supply roller to contact a leading edge of the print sheet to a nip between the registration rollers to form a slack of the print sheet, stop the first rotation after the slack is formed, start rotation of the registration rollers after the first rotation is stopped, start second rotation of the sheet supply roller after the rotation of the registration rollers is started, and keep a speed difference between a feed speed of the registration rollers and a feed speed of the sheet supply rollers until the slack is flattened. According to the device, noises can be reduced.

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RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION5-34-7 SHIBA MINATO-KU TOKYO 108-8385

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Yamagata, Akihiro Ibaraki-ken, JP 11 44

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