Patent ID: 7007945

Claim:
A sheet take-out apparatus comprising: a pickup roller to send out sheets; a take-out roller to take out the sheets sent out by the pickup roller; a separation roller that provides pressure to the take-out roller and separates the sheets one by one by rotating torque in the direction reverse to the take-out direction of the sheets; a sensor to detect a presence or absence of sheets at a downstream location, with respect to said pick-up roller and said take-out roller, alone a path followed by the sheets in the sheet take-out apparatus; a support member to support the separation roller and to move according to a change in diameter of the separation roller; a detector to detect a position of the support member moving in accordance with the change in diameter of the separation roller when the sensor detects the absence of sheets; and a controller to reduce rotating torque of the separation roller when the support member moves in accordance with the detection result of the detector.