Appeal No. 2001-0327
Application 08/990,295
out the sheets in a sheet feeding
direction, which contacts to one side of
the sheets piled on the support member; and
a friction member being supported at one
end and having a frictional force yielding
portion which is capable of contacting a
leading end of the cut sheets in a sheet
feeding path, the frictional force yielding
portion having a static friction
coefficient of 1.0 to 1.5 with
respect to the sheets piled on the support
member.
Appellants’ invention also addresses a method of feeding
sheets using a sheet feeder unit as described above.
Independent claims 1, 8, 15 and 18 are representative of the
subject matter on appeal and a copy of those claims can be
found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by
the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Lo et al. (Lo) 5,520,381 May 28, 1996
Nakagawa et al. (Nakagawa) 5,769,411 June 23, 1998
(filed May 22,
1996)
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