Patent ID: 11878887
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
an apparatus body including an opening portion;
a storage configured to store a sheet, the storage being attached to the apparatus body and configured to be drawable out of the apparatus body in a draw-out direction through the opening portion;
a pickup roller configured to pick up and feed the sheet stored in the storage in a sheet feeding direction orthogonal to the draw-out direction;
a separation conveyance unit including a separation nip and configured to separate and convey the sheet by the separation nip, the separation nip being positioned downstream of the pickup roller in the sheet feeding direction; and
a guide member including a guiding surface, at least a portion of the guiding surface being inclined downward from upstream to downstream in the draw-out direction, the guiding surface being configured to guide the sheet such that the sheet passes under an upper edge of the opening portion while the storage is being drawn out of the apparatus body,
wherein a downstream end of the guiding surface in the sheet feeding direction is positioned downstream of the separation nip in the sheet feeding direction, and
wherein an upstream end of the guiding surface in the sheet feeding direction is positioned upstream in the sheet feeding direction of a leading-edge position in the sheet feeding direction of the sheet stored in the storage.