Abstract: A document feeding device includes a document placing tray, a document ejection tray disposed above the document placing tray, a feeding path, a first reversal path, a second reversal path, and a reversing mechanism. The document ejection tray has a flap portion capable of rocking up and down to provide a first ejection mode and a second ejection mode. The reversing mechanism is configured to temporarily eject part of a document to a space portion between the document placing tray and the document ejection tray.

Abstract: A document feeding device includes: a document placing tray; a document ejection tray disposed above the document placing tray; a feeding path; a separating mechanism; and ejection rollers. A nip position of the ejection rollers is arranged in a side opposite to a side where the document placing tray is arranged with reference to a vertical plane passing through a separation position of the separating mechanism.

Abstract: A document feeding device comprises an input tray, an output tray, a feeding mechanism for a feeding path, a turnover mechanism for a turnover path, ejection rollers, and an ejection mechanism. The ejection mechanism switches between a first ejection mode (for successively ejecting each document while stacking the document on documents previously ejected to the output tray) and a second ejection mode (for successively ejecting each document while sliding the document under the previously ejected documents) by relatively moving a nipping position of the ejection rollers and an upstream end of the output tray in the vertical direction. Also included are a pressing member which is pivotable up and down on the downstream side of the ejection rollers and which presses down the ejected documents in the first ejection mode, and a retracting mechanism which retracts the pressing member by pivoting the pressing member upward in the second ejection mode.

Abstract: There is provided an automatic document feeder, comprising: a document tray; an output tray; a first rotating body that ejects the document to the output tray; a second rotating body that ejects the document to the output tray; a reversing mechanism that reverses a carrying direction of the document which passed the reading portion to carry again the document to the reading portion; a sinking mechanism that sinks the document into a position between a bottom of a document already stacked on the output tray and a surface of the output tray; and a switching mechanism configured to switch between a first motion of carrying the document to the first rotating body and a second motion of carrying the document to the second rotating body, in accordance with whether the reversing mechanism is activated.

Abstract: A document feeding device comprises a document input tray, a document output tray, a feeding mechanism for a feeding path, a turnover mechanism for a turnover path, ejection rollers, an ejection mechanism which switches its document ejection mode between a first ejection mode (for successively ejecting each document while stacking it on documents already ejected to the document output tray) and a second ejection mode (for successively ejecting each document while sliding it under the already ejected documents) by relatively moving a nipping position of the ejection rollers and an upstream end position of the document output tray in the vertical direction, a pressing member which is pivotable up and down on the downstream side of the ejection rollers and which presses down the already ejected documents in the first ejection mode, and a retracting mechanism which retracts the pressing member by pivoting it upward in the second ejection mode.

Abstract: An image scanner section is disposed above a printer section. The image scanner section is supported by the printer section in such a manner as to be pivotable about a pivotal axis. The printer section has a lower housing having a substantially rectangular shape as viewed from above. The image scanner section has an upper housing having a substantially rectangular shape as viewed from above. The upper housing and the lower housing are configured such that a second upper corner portion, which is a corner portion of the upper housing, projects beyond a second lower corner portion, which is a corner portion of the lower housing and is located just under the second upper corner portion.

Abstract: A sheet feeder that can occupy the smaller space is provided. The sheet feeder includes a housing having a cassette housing part recessed horizontally from the front surface toward the depth direction and a sheet feed cassette that can be housed within and drawn from the cassette housing part. The sheet feed cassette has a holding chamber having an open top for storing sheets of paper. Further, the sheet feeder includes a pressure plate provided pivotably about a first pivot so as to be inclined downwardly toward the depth direction of the sheet feed cassette and a pressure mechanism that presses the sheets of paper against a pick-up roller above by increasing an angle of inclination of the pressure plate when the sheet feed cassette is pushed into the cassette housing part.

Abstract: A document feeder includes a conveying path extended from a document supplying position to a reading position, a first conveying roller pair provided upstream from the reading position and nipping and conveying the document, a second conveying roller pair provided downstream from the reading position and nipping and conveying the document faster than the first conveying roller pair, a post-reading conveying path extended downstream from a nipping position of the second conveying roller pair, the post-reading conveying path being located above a plane tangent to the second conveying roller pair at the nipping position running in a reverse sheet feed direction, and a third conveying roller pair provided on the post-reading conveying path and nipping and conveying the document conveyed from the second conveying roller pair at a conveying force equivalent to that of the second conveying roller pair.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries a developer image; a transfer member that transfers the developer image carried on the image carrier onto an image forming surface of a recording medium being conveyed; a fixation member that is disposed downstream of the transfer member in a conveyance direction of the recording medium, and fixes the developer image transferred on the recording medium; a first member that is disposed between the transfer member and the fixation member to face the image forming surface of the recording medium; and a second member that is disposed between the transfer member and the fixation member to face a non-image forming surface that is opposite the image forming surface, wherein the first member is provided with a first electrically-conductive member having an electric conductivity and being grounded.