Patent ID: 7883084
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: B65H,G03G

Abstract:
1. A sheet feeding device for feeding a sheet-form recording medium, comprising: a sheet feeding unit main body; a sheet feeding cassette slidably insertable into the sheet feeding unit main body and slidably withdrawable from the sheet feeding unit main body; a sheet accommodating portion provided in the sheet feeding cassette for accommodating a sheet stack constituted by a plurality of sheets of said sheet-form recording medium, a first heated air unit mounted to the sheet feeding unit main body and disposed above and substantially adjacent to said sheet accommodating portion, said first heated air unit having a first intake port capable of taking in air, a first blowing unit for taking in air from said first intake port and generating an airflow to be blown out through said first blowing port, a first heating unit for heating said air taken into said first blowing unit, a first blowing port for blowing toward an upper face of said sheet stack air that has been heated by said first heating unit accommodated in said sheet accommodating portion, and a housing for housing said first blowing unit and said first heating unit, and formed with said first blowing port and said first intake port.