Patent ID: 7837194

Claim:
A feeding apparatus, comprising: a feeding device including (a) a feeding roller which rotates to feed, in each of a plurality of feeding operations, an object in a feeding direction in a state in which an external force is exerted to the object from an element other than the feeding device in a direction parallel to the feeding direction, and (b) a motor which rotates the feeding roller and thereby feeds the object in the feeding direction; and a controller which controls, in said each feeding operation, the motor by supplying, in a first control mode, a first power to the motor so as to feed the object to a control-end position distant from a target stop position by a predetermined amount, and subsequently supplying, in a second control mode, a second power different from the first power, to the motor such that due to the second power supplied to the motor, the feeding roller applies, to the object, a resisting force resisting the external force and thereby stops the object at an actual stop position against the external force so as to prevent at least a portion of a movement of the object in said direction parallel to the feeding direction that is caused by the external force, wherein after the object is stopped at the actual stop position in the second control mode of said each feeding operation, the controller continues supplying the second power to the motor such that the feeding roller holds the object at the actual stop position against the external force.