Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus
A sheet feeding device having: a blowing device configured to blow air toward the stack of sheets placed in a predetermined stacking direction, thereby floating at least a top sheet from the stack; a suction/transportation mechanism that includes a suction belt provided above the mounting portion and configured to attract the top sheet floated by the blowing device to transport the attracted sheet in a predetermined transportation direction; and an image pickup device configured to capture images of the top sheet and the next sheet therebelow, and disposed so as to see through an area where a side of the top sheet and the suction belt, when viewed in a plan view in the stacking direction, are close to each other during the floating of the top sheet, to such an extent that the side of the top sheet essentially does not hang downward.
KONICA MINOLT, INC.
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Hiroshi Hiroaki Atsuhiko Noboru Ryo
Mizuno Umemoto Shimoyama Oomoto Oshima