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Title:
自動原稿搬送装置及び画像形成装置
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP4591556
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
An automatic document feeder device 100 has a device body 110 disposed on a platen 210 of a document reading device 200 and pivotably openable relative to the device 200 by being hingedly connected thereto. The device 100 includes detectors 130, 140 for detecting a document-stack state of at least one of a feeder and an output tray 111, 112 provided on the body 110, a driver 160 for driving the body 110 to be pivotably opened in an upward direction from the platen 210, an instructor 179 for giving an instruction for the driving, and a controller 172 for, based on a detection result of the detectors 130, 140 in priority to the instruction, to permit or forbid the driving, or to control an amount of the driving. When the device body is automatically opened, documents in the feeder or the output tray are unlikely to fall off.

Inventors:
Takashi Watanabe
Toshikazu Higashi
Takeshi Ishida
Masahiro Nonoyama
Application Number:
JP2008154936A
Publication Date:
December 01, 2010
Filing Date:
June 13, 2008
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
H04N1/00; B65H1/00; B65H7/04; G03B27/62; G03G15/00; H04N1/04; H04N1/10; H04N1/107
Domestic Patent References:
JP6332082A
JP2003280114A
JP60063840U
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Shiro Nakajima
Shuji Matsumura
Kobayashi Kunito