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Document | Title | Date |
20090250862 | GATHERING POSTAL ITEMS - Apparatus for gathering postal items having a postal item feeding path for feeding postal items at a speed of transport and a postal item gripper for gripping and subsequently releasing postal items. The gripper is circulatable in a sense of circulation along a circulation path downstream of the feeding path. Each time prior to gripping of one of the postal items by the gripper, at least the speed of transport of the gripper is temporarily reduced to a reduced speed of transport or the speed of transport of the postal item along the feeding path is temporarily increased to an increased speed of transport. A method for gathering postal items is also described. | 10-08-2009 |
20090315248 | SHEET CONVEYANCE RELAY UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM USING THE SAME UNIT - A sheet conveyance relay unit, including: a convergence unit, including: a convergence section to converge sheet conveyance paths of plural sheet receiving sections; and a first common sheet-conveyance section, which conveys the recording sheets from the convergence section to a sheet feeding outlet; a divergence unit, including: a second common sheet-conveyance section, which conveys the recording sheets conveyed from the convergence unit; plural sheet feed-out sections, which are combined to plural post-finishing apparatuses; and a divergence section, which sorts the recording sheets conveyed by the second common sheet-conveyance section, onto the plural sheet feed-out sections; and a control section which receives job information having been set, and selects an image forming apparatus to be used for a job among the image forming apparatuses and a post-finishing apparatus to be used for the job among the plural post-finishing apparatuses, whereby the control section conducts the job having been set. | 12-24-2009 |
20100059922 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a holding section connected to a downstream end of a main transfer path for consecutively transferring paper sheets and formed of a curved transfer path, which consecutively transfers the paper sheets led out from the main transfer path in a curved state and holds them in an overlaid state. | 03-11-2010 |
20100066006 | PRINTER AND DUAL TRAYS FOR IMAGE RECEIVER MEDIA SHEETS - A printer having a sheet tray, a drive for advancing sheets past a marking mechanism, and a picker to remove sheets from an aligned tray includes a load position and a pick position. The trays are selectively moved between the load and pick positions. A transmission is engagable to connect the drive to the tray moving mechanism, whereby the tray is moved between the pick position and the load position by the media sheet advancing drive. The transmission is disengageable to enable advancement of the media sheets without movement of the tray. Starting with both trays in their load positions, one of the trays is moved to its pick position whereat a sheet can be picked; moving the other of the trays to its pick position whereat a sheet of media from each of the trays can be picked; and moving the tray remaining at its pick position from its pick position to its media load position. | 03-18-2010 |
20100090389 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING DRIVING OF PROCESSING MACHINE - This invention relates to a sheet-fed offset printing press including a gear driven by an upstream drive motor, a gear rotationally driven by the upstream drive motor through the gear, an impression cylinder of an upstream printing unit group, and a transfer cylinder of a downstream printing unit group. The impression cylinder is rotationally driven by the gear and has a holding portion for holding a paper sheet W. The transfer cylinder is rotationally driven by a downstream drive motor and has a holding portion for receiving the paper sheet W from the holding portion of the impression cylinder. The printing press further includes an impression-cylinder-side peripheral speed measuring device for measuring the peripheral speed of the impression cylinder and a transfer-cylinder-side peripheral speed measuring device for measuring the peripheral speed of the transfer cylinder. The rotational phase difference between the impression and transfer cylinders is obtained from signals from the impression-cylinder-side and transfer-cylinder-side peripheral speed measuring devices. | 04-15-2010 |
20100270727 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a body including a conveyance path into which a sheet is conveyed and a feed tray. The feed tray includes a separation pad, which is provided at a widthwise center of the feed tray; and a holding member, which is provided downstream of the separation pad in a direction of conveyance of the sheet, the holding member comprising a driven roller, which is wider than the separation pad, and at least two guide members, one guide member arranged on each side of the driven roller. | 10-28-2010 |
20110074086 | DECOLORIZING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DECOLORIZING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a decolorizing device includes a first stacker to stack sheets to be decolorized images on the sheets, a second stacker arranged adjacent to the first stacker, wherein the sheets stacked on the first stacker is kept waiting on the second stacker in order to be decolorized the images, a pressing unit to urge the sheets stacked on the second stacker downward and keep the sheets stacked on the second stacker flat, an image decolorizing unit to decolorize the images on the sheets, and a sheet feed unit positioned on an upper surface of the pressing unit to convey the sheets pressed on the pressing unit from the second stacker to the image decolorizing unit. | 03-31-2011 |
20110074087 | Sheet Feeding Device - A sheet feeding device, having a sheet feeding mechanism and an image processor is provided. The sheet feeding mechanism includes a base structure, a first roller, and a second roller. The first roller includes a first shaft and a first roller body fixed to the first shaft. The second roller includes a second shaft and a second roller body fixed to the second shaft. The first roller feeds a sheet into a sheet feeding path, and the second roller conveys the sheet in the sheet feeding path. The first roller and the second roller are connected with each other by a connector member, which rotatably supports the first shaft and the second shaft and maintains positional relation of the first shaft and the second shaft with respect to each other. | 03-31-2011 |
20110074088 | PAPER SHEET PICK UP DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a pick up device for paper sheets includes an input unit configured to support a plurality of paper sheets in a stacked manner, a supply mechanism configured to move the placed paper sheets in a stacking direction and supply each paper sheet to an pick up position, a pick up mechanism configured to pick up the paper sheet at the pick up position from the input unit one by one, and a control unit configured to determine a supply speed or a feed amount of the paper sheets by the supply mechanism in accordance with thickness information per unit time of the picked up paper sheets obtained from a thickness detector, and configured to determine whether the supply mechanism is to be operated or stopped based on density information of the paper sheets obtained from a paper sheet sensor. | 03-31-2011 |
20110109034 | MEDIUM TRANSFER DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC PAPER CURRENCY DEPOSIT/WITHDRAWAL MACHINE - Provided is a paper-currency transfer device, which prevents paper-currency clogging in a paper-currency transfer unit composed of a plurality of transfer units and which neither has a complicated structure nor needs a dedicated drive source. A medium transfer device transfers a medium from a sending-side paper-currency transfer passage as a first transfer passage to a receiving-side paper-currency transfer passage as a second transfer passage. The medium transfer device comprises a runner mounted coaxially with a transfer roller on a receiving side of the receiving-side paper-currency transfer passage. The runner is rotated at a higher speed than that of the transfer roller on the receiving side. The drive source of the runner is common to that of the transfer roller. | 05-12-2011 |
20110121505 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying device includes a first conveying unit configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a conveying path configured to guide the sheet to the first conveying unit, the sheet having been conveyed by the first conveying unit in a direction opposite to the conveying direction; a second conveying unit configured to convey the sheet in the conveying path; a rotation direction detecting unit configured to detect a rotation direction of the second conveying unit; and a control unit configured to perform control, at startup, to drive the first conveying unit in a direction that causes the sheet to be conveyed in the conveying direction, and if the rotation direction detecting unit detects rotation of the second conveying unit, to drive the second conveying unit in the rotation direction that is detected by the rotation direction detecting unit. | 05-26-2011 |
20110133386 | SHEET CONVEYING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, CONTROL PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE PROGRAM - A sheet conveying system which is capable of preventing a jammed sheet from being mixed with processed sheets, reducing waste in sheets and toners, and further alleviating the user's operations, when jamming has occurred during passing of a sheet between respective sheet conveying devices of upstream and downstream apparatuses. A puncher control section of a puncher as an upstream apparatus of the system issues a passing completion notification as to the passing of a sheet to a staple stacker control section of a staple stacker as a downstream apparatus of the system. Upon reception of the notification, when the staple stacker control section determines that the parameter of auxiliary information of the notification indicates an abnormal discharge of the sheet from the puncher, the staple stacker stops the conveyance of the sheet. | 06-09-2011 |
20110140342 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER - An automatic document feeder includes an upper cover, an input tray for placing plural documents, a pick-up module and a stopper module. A guide plate is disposed on the upper cover. The guide plate has a confining aperture. The confining aperture includes a fixing region and a releasing region. The stopper module has a stopping slice inserted into the confining aperture. When the automatic document feeder is enabled and the pick-up module is swung to be close to the input tray, the stopper module is moved from the fixing region of the confining aperture in response to the swinging action of the pick-up module. As such, the stopper module is released and the document is allowed to be fed into the internal portion of the automatic document feeder. | 06-16-2011 |
20110140343 | MEDIUM CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A medium conveying device includes a first guide member, a second guide member, a conveying member, and a support member. The first guide member guides one face of a medium to be conveyed and opposed to the one face when the medium is conveyed. The second guide member guides the other face of the medium and is opposed to the other face when the medium is conveyed, the second guide member being movable between a close position and an open position. The conveying member is provided in a conveying passage formed by the first guide member and the second guide member being at the close position in order to convey the medium in the conveying passage. The support member keeps the second guide member at the open position and is provided at a position outer than the second guide member in a direction that the medium is conveyed. When the second guide member is at the open position, the medium in the conveying passage is removable from the conveying passage. | 06-16-2011 |
20110187040 | IMAGE PRINTING APPARATUS - An image printing apparatus includes a printing unit and a supporting member opposing the printing unit and having a supporting surface for supporting the printing medium. The image printing apparatus further includes a first pair of rollers disposed upstream of the printing unit, a second pair of rollers and a third pair of rollers which are disposed downstream of the printing unit. The image printing apparatus further includes a guide member disposed between the second pair of rollers and the third pair of rollers. The guide member includes a guide portion which guides the printing medium transported by the second pair of rollers. The guide member is configured to pivot between a slanting position and a laying position. | 08-04-2011 |
20110204556 | Feeding device and image forming apparatus - A sheet discharge roller has a contact portion in contact with a feed roller and a noncontact portion not in contact with the feed roller. The sheet discharge roller includes a kick-out unit having a projected portion and a recess portion on one end of the noncontact portion in the circumferential direction. A reverse roller also has a contact portion in contact with the feed roller and a noncontact portion not in contact with the feed roller. The reverse roller includes a large-diameter portion on its one end in a direction opposite to a direction of the kick-out unit. The large-diameter portion has a diameter larger than a diameter of the contact portion. | 08-25-2011 |
20110215516 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SHEET GUIDE APPARATUS AND SHEET GUIDE METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet, a sheet discharge part to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed, and a relay unit that is attached to the sheet discharge part, includes a sheet conveyance path to convey the discharged sheet to a finisher, and includes, at a side of a discharge port of the sheet conveyance path, a rotation end which can rotate up and down to coincide with a height position of the finisher while a shaft provided at a side of a carry-in port of the sheet conveyance path is made a fulcrum. | 09-08-2011 |
20110254215 | MEDIUM TRANSFER APPARATUS FOR AN AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE - The present invention relates to a medium transfer apparatus for an automated teller machine, wherein a portion of medium transfer apparatus is opened and shut by a simple operation, thereby conveniently and quickly solving the problem of jams occurring when the medium transfer apparatus transfers a paper medium. | 10-20-2011 |
20120061902 | MEDIUM MOUNTING DEVICE, MEDIUM READING DEVICE, AND MULTIFUNCTION PRODUCT - A medium mounting device includes a medium mounting portion for placing a medium in a stacked state in a first direction, and a medium regulating portion arranged to be rotatable relative to the medium mounting portion. The medium regulating portion is arranged to regulate an edge portion of the medium when the medium regulating portion is in a rising state relative to the medium mounting portion. The medium regulating portion in the rising state is arranged to abut against the medium to rotate and retreat when the medium is taken out in a second direction different from the first direction. | 03-15-2012 |
20120074636 | PAPER FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes an upper paper feeding frame that is pivotally rotated in linkage with a paper feeding tray pivotally rotatably installed to a body of the apparatus, resulting in a size reduction of the image forming apparatus. | 03-29-2012 |
20120091650 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE - An image recording device includes a first roller, a plurality of second rollers, a tray, and a recording portion. The tray includes a pair of thick-walled sections, a thin-walled section, and an accommodation portion. The pair of thick-walled sections extends in a lengthwise direction and protrudes from the first surface. The thin-walled section is positioned between the pair of thick-walled sections. The thin-walled section is thinner than the pair of thick-walled sections in a thickness direction of the tray. The accommodation portion is formed by a recess in the thickness direction in the thin-walled section. When the first roller and the plurality of second rollers nip the tray therebetween, the first surface of the tray does not contact any of the first roller or the plurality of second rollers, except at the pair of thick-walled sections of the tray. | 04-19-2012 |
20120112399 | PRINTING MEDIUM SUPPLYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A printing medium supplying apparatus for an image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, and a printing medium aligning unit which is disposed on the apparatus main body to move between an aligning position at which the printing medium aligning unit aligns a printing medium and a distanced position at which the printing medium aligning unit is distanced from the aligning position. | 05-10-2012 |
20120119429 | Signature Transport Device with Rotary Arm and Method - A signature transport device is provided. The signature transport device includes a first conveyor moving a stream of folded signatures in a first direction, a rotary arm having a gripper, the gripper gripping a folded signature from the stream by a fold, the rotary arm moving the folded signature in a second direction, a toothed drum engaging a portion of the folded signature, the rotary arm rotating past the toothed drum to open the folded signature and a second conveyor receiving the opened signature from the gripper as the rotary arm continues to rotate. A method is also provided. | 05-17-2012 |
20120187619 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SHEET DOCUMENT PROCESSING | 07-26-2012 |
20120248677 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET SIZE DETECTION METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a sheet feeding unit for feeding a sheet, a registration roller for transporting the sheet toward the image forming unit, a rotational member for transporting the sheet toward the registration roller, at least one detection member provided on an upstream side of the registration roller, and a sheet size detection unit configured to receive an output from the detection member. The rotational member is configured to continue rotation until transportation of the sheet is completed. The registration roller is configured to rotate when a predetermined waiting time period has elapsed since the detection member detects sheet arrival. The sheet size detection unit is configured to detect a size of the sheet using a time period from a time when the detection member detects the sheet arrival to a time when the detection member detects sheet passage. | 10-04-2012 |
20120313311 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A sheet processing apparatus capable of improving sheet processing performance and productivity is provided. While sheets are conveyed in a piled state toward a rear-end stopper, displacement is produced between the sheets by a pair of discharge rollers. Even if adhesion occurs between the sheets during conveyance thereof, the adhesion between the sheets can be removed before the sheets come into contact with the rear-end stopper. | 12-13-2012 |
20130001853 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STACKING SHEETS IN A PRINTING PRESS - A device and a method for the stacking of sheets in a printing press are disclosed. The device and correspondingly the method have at least two laterally spaced sheet transport roll pairs to transport the sheets in a transport plane. A stacking tray is furthermore provided to accommodate the sheets transported out of the printing press. A sheet contacting unit is arranged in the direction of transport behind the sheet transport roll pairs such that it deflects at least a partial region of the sheet out of the transport plane at least in a first direction, wherein the sheet undergoes a deformation transversely to the direction of transport, and wherein the at least two sheet transport roll pairs and the sheet contacting unit are arranged in a projection onto the transport plane in a triangular arrangement. | 01-03-2013 |
20130049284 | MEDIA TRANSPORT SYSTEM WITH COORDINATED TRANSFER BETWEEN SECTIONS - A media transport apparatus and method includes a first media transport having a first drive unit, configured and operative to convey the substrate media through a marking zone to be marked by a print head. A first motion encoder is operatively connected with the first media transport, configured and operative to output a first signal dependent upon the motion of the first media transport surface. A second media transport with a second drive unit and second motion encoder is configured and operative to receive the substrate media from the first media transport and to convey the substrate media. The second drive unit drives the motion of the second media transport with substantially the same surface velocity as the first media transport. The first and second media transports are each operative to hold the substrate media in contact therewith, with respective first and second hold-down forces that may be different magnitudes, including the first hold down force of the first media transport having a greater magnitude than the second hold down force of the second media transport while the substrate media is at least partially within the marking zone and is subjected to both the first and second hold down forces. | 02-28-2013 |
20130134648 | PAPER SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE - A paper sheet processing apparatus capable of preventing a paper sheet from being drawn out by an unauthorized action. The bill processing device includes: an insertion slot into which a bill is inserted; a bill conveyance mechanism capable of conveying the bill having been inserted from the insertion slot; a bill reader reading the bill conveyed by the bill conveyance mechanism; an authenticity judging mechanism judging an authenticity of the bill read by the bill reader; and a pulse output part driving a motor for controlling conveyance speed of the bill by a motor of the bill conveyance mechanism. The pulse output part controls the conveyance speed by the bill conveyance mechanism after the completion of reading by the bill reader. | 05-30-2013 |
20140008858 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a paper sheet handling apparatus includes a supply unit including a support surface which tilts from a vertical direction, and a mounting surface substantially perpendicular to the support surface, and configured to receive a plurality of paper sheets which tilt along the support surface and are stacked on the mounting surface, a pick up mechanism configured to pick up the paper sheets from a mounting surface side of the supply unit, a conveyance path configured to convey the picked up paper sheet, an inspection device configured to inspect the conveyed paper sheet, and an accumulation unit configured to accumulate the inspected paper sheets. | 01-09-2014 |
20140015189 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND SHEET TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming system includes the following elements. An image forming apparatus forms images on plural sheets sequentially transported with a spacing therebetween. A sheet transport apparatus includes a transport section which receives and transports the plural sheets farther downstream. The sheet transport apparatus supplies a different type of sheet from a different-type-of-sheet supply device, inserts it into the spacing, and transports the sheets. The sheet transport apparatus includes the following elements. A transport information obtaining unit obtains information concerning transporting of sheets. A different-type-of-sheet stop unit supplies the different type of sheet, on the basis of the information concerning transporting of sheets, and stops the different type of sheet at a position before the transport section. A different-type-of-sheet supply information output unit outputs information concerning the supply of the different type of sheet, the information being obtained regarding a standby state of the different type of sheet. | 01-16-2014 |
20140110896 | SHEET STORING APPARATUS - Provided is a sheet storing apparatus including a processing tray and a stack tray arranged respectively at the downstream side of a path sheet discharging port of a sheet discharging path and at the downstream side of the processing tray as forming a step respectively, and a reversing roller arranged at a tray sheet discharging port as being capable of rotating forwardly and reversely to convey a sheet conveyed from the path sheet discharging port selectively to the processing tray and the stack tray, so that a sheet to be conveyed to the processing tray from the path sheet discharging port is conveyed in a state of having corrugations formed thereon and a sheet to be conveyed to the stack tray from the sheet discharging port is stored at the stack tray in a flat shape as having the corrugations corrected after passing through the reversing roller. | 04-24-2014 |
20140138899 | PAPER FEED APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A paper feed apparatus is capable of correcting the skew of a sheet irrespective of a differential conveyance distance. The paper feed apparatus is provided with a first Large volume paper feed apparatus 100A having a control unit 130 which performs first correction control to correct the skew of a sheet by controlling a first conveyance unit 110 and forming a loop of the sheet P before a paper stop rollers 110 | 05-22-2014 |
20140175731 | SHEET CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet conveyance apparatus conveys a sheet without imposing a load on a drive unit due to the bend of the sheet when the sheet is conveyed from one unit to the other, and when the sheet is conveyed by a second conveyance unit and a first conveyance unit, a first control unit controls a first drive motor and a second control unit controls a second drive motor to make a sheet conveyance speed of the first conveyance unit equal to or higher than that of the second conveyance unit. | 06-26-2014 |
20140175732 | DOCUMENT FEEDER - A document feeder includes a feed roller provided in a feed path for a document, a conveying roller provided on a downstream side of the feed roller in the feed path, and a protruding portion provided between the feed roller and the conveying roller in the feed path and protruding from a lower side of the feed path. | 06-26-2014 |
20140232055 | PAPER FEEDER AND PRINTER - Upon continuous feeding of a plurality of sheets and upon detection of a leading end of a sheet by a detection unit before an elapse of a first time after a start of a paper feed roller, a controller performs control such that a paper conveyance speed of the paper feed roller is set lower than a paper conveyance speed of a registration roller, and the paper feed roller is stopped after conveying the sheet having the leading end detected for a specified conveyance distance before a next timing of starting the registration roller. | 08-21-2014 |
20140312553 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH THE SAME - A sheet conveying device ( | 10-23-2014 |
20140319754 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An automatic document feeder includes a sheet feeding tray on which a document is stacked; a slit glass on which the document is scanned while moving; a discharge path in which the document is conveyed after the document is scanned; a document discharge unit to which the document is discharged through the discharge path; and a stamp device that makes a mark on a scanned surface of the document being in the discharge path. The stamp device includes a printing unit that faces the scanned surface of the document. The printing unit is movable between a first position at which the printing unit faces the document being in the discharge path and a second position at which the printing unit is retracted from the discharge path. | 10-30-2014 |
20150084264 | SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The invention includes a swing mechanism contacting/separating a driven discharge roller with/from a driving discharge roller by swinging a support portion rotatably supporting the driven discharge roller. A planetary gear mechanism is provided in a power transmitting route from a driving source to the swing mechanism. The planetary gear mechanism switches the transmission of the driving force to the swing mechanism into a transmission state and a cutoff state by the switching portion. | 03-26-2015 |
20150091239 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a stacking portion on which the sheet having the image formed thereon is to be stacked, a first roller capable of forward and reverse rotations, a second roller capable of rotating with the first roller when the first roller makes a forward rotation, a third roller capable of rotating with the first roller when the first roller makes a reverse rotation and then the forward rotation, a regulation portion movable between a regulation position where entering of the sheet into a nip portion between the first and second rollers is prevented, and an allowing position where discharge of the sheet is allowed, and a movement unit configured to cause the regulation portion to be placed in the allowing position during forward rotation, and to be placed in the regulation position during reverse rotation. | 04-02-2015 |
20150091240 | Sheet Conveying Device and Image Reading Device - A sheet conveying device includes a conveyor, a supporting section which supports a sheet to be fed to the conveyor and a guide section which is provided on the supporting section and configured to guide a sheet to the conveyor. The supporting section includes a first support region and a second support region which support a sheet. The first support region is provided at a position on an upstream side from the second support region in a sheet conveyance direction. The first support region extends substantially horizontally, and the second support region is inclined in a lower direction toward the downstream side in the conveyance direction. The guide section includes a first portion which extends substantially horizontally along the first support region, and a second portion which is connected to the first portion and extends obliquely in the lower direction along the second support region. | 04-02-2015 |
20150108706 | TRANSPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A transport device includes an abutting member that abuts a leading end of a transport object and transport members that are disposed upstream of the abutting member in a transport direction and transport the transport object to the abutting member. The transport object is a first or second transport object. One of the transport members or the transport members transport the first transport object and cause the leading end of the first transport object to abut the abutting member. When transporting the transport object to a position where the leading end of the transport object abuts the abutting member, a transport force required to transport the second transport object is larger than that required to transport the first transport object. A larger number of transport members are used to transport the second transport object than the number of the transport members used to transport the first transport object. | 04-23-2015 |
20150130123 | MEDIUM-MACHINING DEVICE AND MEDIUM-MACHINING METHOD - Provided are a medium-machining device and medium-machining method capable of improving conveying precision when a medium to be machined is conveyed and thereby machining the medium with high precision. As a solution, the medium-machining device | 05-14-2015 |
20150328903 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHODS - A printing apparatus comprises a print zone and a media handling system for advancing media through a media path and through the print zone, wherein the media handling system comprises a first media driving arrangement positioned downstream of the print zone in the direction of advance of the media, and a second media driving arrangement positioned downstream of the first arrangement, the second media driving arrangement being operable to cause the tension of the media in a deformation zone between the two driving arrangements to be lower than the tension of the media in the print zone. | 11-19-2015 |
20150344250 | PAPER FEEDING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A paper feeding apparatus for an image forming apparatus includes a first paper feeding roller to convey a print medium loaded in a first paper feeding tray; a first one-way rotation transmission member disposed coaxially on the first paper feeding roller to transmit a first one-way rotational force to the first paper feeding roller; a second paper feeding roller to convey a print medium loaded in a second paper feeding tray disposed to be spaced apart from the first paper feeding tray; a second one-way rotation transmission member disposed coaxially on the second paper feeding roller to transmit a second one-way rotational force to the second paper feeding roller; a drive source for generating a rotational force to rotate the first and second paper feeding rollers; a first power transmission member disposed between the first one-way rotation transmission member and the drive source to transmit power of the drive source to the first one-way rotation transmission member; and a second power transmission member disposed between the second one-way rotation transmission member and the drive source to transmit the power of the drive source to the second one-way rotation transmission member, wherein when the drive source rotates in one direction, the first paper feeding roller conveys the print medium from the first paper feeding tray by the first one-way rotation transmission member, and when the drive source rotates in an opposite direction, the second paper feeding roller conveys the print medium from the second paper feeding tray by the second one-way rotation transmission member. | 12-03-2015 |
20160009513 | SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS | 01-14-2016 |
20160060056 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS WHICH DETECTS MULTIPLE FEED - An image forming apparatus as a sheet conveying apparatus comprises a paper feeding roller, an upstream side sensor, and an ultrasonic wave sensor. The paper feeding roller provides a plurality of sheets placed on a document tray in series to a conveying path. The upstream side sensor detects presence or absence of a sheet being conveyed along the conveying path, at a location of a downstream side of the paper feeding roller along the conveying path. The ultrasonic wave sensor detects presence or absence of occurrence of multiple feed, based on intensity of ultrasonic waves received at a location of a downstream side of the upstream side sensor along the conveying path. | 03-03-2016 |
20160091853 | MEDIUM CARRYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A medium carrying device that carries a medium includes a first roller, a second roller, a rotation transmitting part that drives its rotation by a driving force transmitted from a driving force source, and moves between at a transmitting position and at a releasing position, at the transmitting position, the rotation transmitting part transmits the driving force to the first roller, at the releasing position, the rotation transmitting part does not transmit the driving force, a transmission releasing part that is connected to the rotation transmitting part. When the medium is bowed between the first and second rollers, the transmission releasing part moves the rotation transmitting part from the transmitting position to the releasing position according to the bowing of the medium. | 03-31-2016 |