Patent ID: 8294962
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: B65H,G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A conveying method of a preceding document and a next document for an automatic document feeder having a case, a conveying path defining in the case and having an upstream feeding section and a downstream discharging section respectively connected to the outside of the case, an inverting path defining in the case and branching from the downstream discharging section and merging to a merging position where arranged at a downstream position relative to the upstream feeding section and adjacent to the upstream feeding section, a scanning section positioned at a side of the conveying path and between the merging position and the downstream discharging section, to perform three times the conveying procedures for conveying the preceding document and the next document from the merging position, through the scanning section and to the downstream discharging section and two times the inverting procedures for conveying the preceding document and the next document from the downstream discharging section, through the inverting path and to the merging position comprising: beginning a first conveying procedure of the preceding document; beginning a first conveying procedure of the next document after the preceding document passes through the scanning section during the first conveying procedure; performing a first inverting procedure and then beginning a second conveying procedure of the preceding document during the first conveying procedure of the next document; performing a first inverting procedure and then beginning a second conveying procedure of the next document during the second conveying procedure of the preceding document; performing a second inverting procedure and then beginning a third conveying procedure of the preceding document during the second conveying procedure of the next document; and performing a second inverting procedure and then beginning a third conveying procedure of the next document during the third conveying procedure of the preceding document.