Patent ID: 6955351

Claim:
A paper feeding device, comprising: a carrier plate, for loading a sheet; a detecting means, for detecting the sheet loaded on the carrier plate, and a guide means, made of a resilience member, wherein a part of the guide means is in contact with a sheet carrying surface at an upstream side of a detecting position of the detecting means, and the guide means guides the sheet towards the detecting position while the guide means is pushing an upper surface of the sheet, wherein the resilience member is bent into a loop shape, wherein the detecting means comprises a filler, protruding from the sheet carrying surface when the sheet is not detected and retroceding after the filler touches the sheet loaded in the carrier plate, and wherein the filler and the guide means overlap each other when the sheet is not detected and a hole is set in the loop shape of the guide means so that the filler and the guide means overlap each other as a result of the filler being inserted into the hole of the loon shape of the guide means.