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| 20080211178 | Method and device for diverting flat objects - In a transport method, a leading object is diverted from an initial direction to a target direction and transported and stopped by a guiding facility. If the following object has reached a specific position during transport in the initial direction, the guiding facility triggers continuation of the transport of the leading object, diverts the following object to the target direction, and transports the following object in the target direction. If a determined sum of the thicknesses of the objects is less than or equal to a predetermined thickness limit, continuation of the transport of the leading object is triggered such that the following object moves onto the leading object when diverted and overlaps the leading object when transported in the target direction. If the thickness sum is greater than the thickness limit, continuation of the transport of the leading object is triggered such that a gap exists between the objects. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080277866 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SHEET STACKING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus for printing multiple copies of a document, the document having N (where N is an integer) pages, includes an image forming unit configured to print images on a plurality of sheets according to an input print job, a sheet stacking unit configured to stack sheets printed by the image forming unit, and a control unit configured to divide a print job which prints M (where M is an integer) copies of each of the N pages of the document into a plurality of print operations in a case where a group mode in which sheets are stacked into N groups, each group having M copies of a respective page of the document, is set in the print job, wherein each of the plurality of print operations is for printing less than M copies of each of the N pages of the document. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080277867 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS AND SHEET STACKING CONTROL METHOD - A sheet stacking apparatus including first and second stacking trays configured to stack sheets, a detection unit configured to detect a sheet stacking amount on the first stacking tray, a setting unit configured to set an upper limit on stacking amount for controlling the sheet stacking amount that is less than a maximum sheet stacking amount on the first stacking tray, and a control unit configured to stop stacking of sheets on the first stacking tray and stack sheets on the second stacking tray in a case where the sheet stacking amount which is detected by the detection unit reaches the upper limit on stacking amount that is set by the setting unit. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090045570 | Sheet Stacking Apparatus and Image Forming System Equipped Therewith - An image forming system includes: a first sheet stacking device including a rack, provided downstream of an image forming apparatus in a conveyance direction of a recording sheet and connected with the image forming apparatus, for stacking the recording sheet delivered from the image forming apparatus; a second sheet stacking device, which is provided downstream of the first sheet stacking device and connected with the first sheet stacking device; and a controller for controlling the image forming apparatus and the first and second sheet stacking devices. At least one of the first and second sheet stacking devices has a job stop button for stopping a printing job, and when the job stop button is turned on while the printing job execution is in progress, the controller controls the sheet stacking device to stop a stack of a recording sheet to the rack. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090057999 | DEVICE FOR FORMING STACKS OF FLAT PRODUCTS - A device for forming stacks of flat products comprises a first transportation section for transporting a stream of individual flat products of a first type, a second transportation section for forming an overlapping stream from the flat products of the first type, and a stacking unit for forming individual stacks from the overlapping stream. The device further comprises a feed unit for flat products of a second type, whereby the feed unit introduces the flat products of the second type inline into the stream of individual flat products of the first type. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090121424 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH OUTPUT TRAY AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In an image forming apparatus, a sheet is discharged onto an output tray. The image forming apparatus includes a ranging sensor which measures a distance to an object from a position located away by a predetermined distance from a bottom surface of the output tray in a sheet loading direction on a line in parallel with the bottom surface of the output tray and orthogonal to a direction in which the sheet is discharged. In the image forming apparatus, discharge of the sheet onto the output tray is stopped when the distance to the object measured by the ranging sensor is lower than a specific distance. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090134572 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A stacker includes a plurality of sheet stacking units individually movable upward and downward. Sheets are selectively stacked onto either of the stacker trays. To remove the sheets stacked on one of the stacker trays, a door is opened. In a state where the door is open, the stacker trays moved by respective elevation units are movable only downward. In this manner, accidental upward movement of each of the stacker trays caused by a malfunction of a motor or the like is regulated, whereby damage to the stacker is prevented. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090243210 | Print Order System - A print order system includes: a print forming unit that forms prints according to an order of a customer; a print delivery unit for delivering the prints to the customer that includes a plurality of storage portions wherein the prints outputted from the print forming unit can be stored; and a management unit that manages information representative of the status of each of the storage portions and the status of the prints stored therein, wherein the management unit changes the information when the prints are removed from a corresponding storage portion after a reserve period of the prints in the print delivery unit elapses, and the print delivery unit includes a notification means for enabling the customer to be notified based on the changed information in response to a print pick-up request of the customer after the reserve period elapses. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090283966 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section which forms normal images on sheets sequentially based on normal image data and forms sample images on sheets based on sample image data; a discharge section which discharges normal image sheets in a stack which are sheets on which the normal images were formed and sample image sheets which are sheets on which the sample images were formed; and a control section which is configured to control at least one of the image forming section and the discharge section to discharge the normal image sheets in the stack and the sample image sheets to the discharge section so as to enable timings at which the sample image sheets were discharged to be appreicated in the stacked normal image sheets. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090315255 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR A COMBINED SIGNATURE DIVERTER AND SLOWDOWN DEVICE - A device for diverting printed products is provided. The device includes a first rotating support having a first pad mounted thereon, a second rotating support having a second pad mounted thereon, a third rotating support having a third pad mounted thereon and a fourth rotating support having a fourth pad mounted thereon. The first pad has a different thickness than the second pad and the first and second rotating supports rotate together. The third pad has a different thickness than the fourth pad and the third and fourth rotating supports rotate together. A method for diverting printed products is also provided. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100052251 | SHEET GUIDING APPARATUS - A sheet guiding apparatus, including: a supporting member having a supporting surface which supports a sheet; a first electrode provided in the supporting member; an electric field generating portion configured to generate an electric field between the supporting surface and the first electrode; a guide member which is distant from the supporting surface by a predetermined distance in a direction perpendicular to the supporting surface; a moving portion configured to move the sheet supported by the supporting surface by moving at least one of the supporting member and the guide member relatively to each other in a direction parallel to the supporting surface; and an electric field inverting portion configured to invert a direction of the electric field generated by the electric field generating portion, when a leading end portion of the sheet in a direction in which the sheet is moved has reached a vicinity of the guide member. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100078883 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An apparatus that creates a print product including a plurality of constituent parts to make a printing result, the apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine information indicating a discharge unit-number of copies, which is smaller than the designated number of print copies and equal to or larger than 2 copies, when the print product is printed by a plurality number of copies, and a control unit configured to control a printing sequence, so that printing is performed using the determined discharge unit-number of copies as a unit and using the constituent part as a unit in the unit of the discharge unit-number of copies. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100156043 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A control method for controlling a sheet processing apparatus having a stacking control unit configured to cause a sheet on which an image is printed by a printing unit to abut a movable abutting member, followed by stacking the sheet on a stacking unit, the control method includes: determining a position of the abutting member; and controlling a sheet which is abutted to the abutting member moved to a first position determined by the determination and mounted on the stacking unit and a sheet which is abutted to the abutting member moved to a second position determined by the determination and mounted on the stacking unit so that the sheets are mounted on said stacking unit while being prevented from overlapping from one another. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100194036 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus of an intra-body paper discharge type includes: a sheet discharge port for discharging a sheet to an intra-body space; a movable tray on which the sheet discharged from the sheet discharge port can be stacked, the movable tray having a guided section guided when the movable tray moves with respect to the sheet discharge port; and a guide section provided on a sidewall parallel to a sheet discharging direction from the sheet discharge port among sidewalls forming the intra-body space, the guide section being configured to guide the guided section of the movable tray such that the movable tray can move between a receiving position for receiving the sheet discharged from the sheet discharge port and a retracted position for allowing the sheet discharged from the sheet discharge port to drop to a floor surface of the intra-body space. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100201066 | Multiple delivery web conversion apparatus and method of producing and delivering variable printed products - A web conversion and delivery apparatus is provided. The web conversion and delivery apparatus comprises a first delivery for transporting printed products, a second delivery for transporting printed products and a cutting apparatus upstream of the first delivery and the second delivery. The cutting apparatus is capable during a first print job of cutting first images of the fixed image length into first printed products for delivery to the first delivery. The second delivery is inactive during the first print job. The cutting apparatus is capable during a second print job of cutting second images of the fixed image length into second printed products for delivery to the first delivery and the second delivery. The second printed products have a length that is different from the first printed products. A printing press and a method of producing and delivering printed products of variable lengths are also provided. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100264581 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A sheet processing apparatus comprises: an first stack portion which temporarily stacks a sheet thereon; a first stack portion which is disposed under the first stack portion and stacks thereon a sheet discharged from the first stack portion; a second stack portion which is disposed above the first stack portion and stacks a sheet thereon; a stack reference wall which serves as an abutment reference at an end of the sheet on the second stack portion; and an alignment reference wall which is disposed more upstream in the sheet conveyance direction than the stack reference wall and serves as an abutment reference at an end of the sheet on the first stack portion; wherein the second stack portion has such a length that an end of the sheet stacked on the first stack portion cannot project from the second stack portion, as viewed from above in a vertical direction. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100327522 | PAPER DISCHARGER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A paper discharger is configured so as to perform paper conveying process to a first stacking tray and paper conveying process to a second stacking tray by a driving force from a single motor capable of reversible rotation in both directions. An image forming apparatus includes a movable door configured so as to support the second stacking tray, and a second gear train. Between a group of gears configuring the second gear train and a discharge roller is disposed a one way clutch configured so as to transmit driving force to the discharge roller only in the direction of discharging paper to the second stacking tray. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110068535 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM TRANSPORTATION APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM TRANSPORTATION METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit forming an image on a recording medium; a first transportation route that forms a transportation route for the recording medium extending to an outside of the apparatus, and that has a transportation route length longer than a maximum length in a transportation direction of the recording medium, the transportation route length being from an image formation functional unit at a most downstream portion of the image forming unit in the transportation direction to an output position of the recording medium; and a recording medium transportation unit that, upon output of a part of the recording medium from the first transportation route, stops the transportation in a state of holding a remaining part of the recording medium in the first transportation route, and outputs the recording medium to the outside in accordance with pull out operation for the stopped recording medium. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110133401 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH PAPER SORTING APPARATUS - An electronic device includes a main body and a plurality of paper trays. The main body includes a mounting plate, and the mounting plate defines a paper outlet. A mounting bracket is secured to the main body. A control module is disposed on the mounting bracket. A driving member is connected to the paper trays. The control module is capable of causing the driving member to move the paper trays along a direction parallel to the mounting plate, so that one of the paper trays is aligned with the paper outlet. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110175283 | Methods and apparatus for stacking tickets in a ticket printer with an alternate ticket exit - Methods and apparatus for stacking paper tickets in a printer are provided, in which an alternate ticket exit is provided in the event of a blockage of the primary ticket exit. Printed tickets are fed from a stacking nip into a ticket bin via a first ticket exit. A second ticket exit is provided which leads away from the ticket bin. Tickets are diverted into the second ticket exit in the event the ticket bin has reached capacity or the first ticket exit is blocked. By diverting tickets out of the second exit when the ticket bin has reached capacity or when the first ticket exit is blocked, the tickets are allowed to exit the printer and paper jams are prevented. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110198802 | Paper discharge device - Provided is a paper discharge device ( | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110210508 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - When printing is to be executed on the basis of an input print job, and a group of sheets having undergone the printing on the basis of the input print job are discharged to a first one of multiple discharging destinations, the first discharging destination is switched to a second discharging destination in the course of the discharging process, and the second discharging destination is selected in accordance with an arranged order of the group of sheets. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110221127 | SYSTEM FOR DEPOSITING DOCUMENTS INTO BOXES - The invention relates to a system adapted for printing and for consecutively placing in boxes moving on a conveyor, documents of the slip type ( | 09-15-2011 |
| 20120091655 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying apparatus has a first pair of rollers which nip and convey a sheet; a second pair of rollers provided on a downstream side of the first pair of rollers in a conveying direction of the sheet, which nip and convey a sheet; and a position detecting sensor which detects a position of a sheet in a width direction which is perpendicular to the conveying direction. When the first pair of rollers and the second pair of rollers nip and convey the sheet, the first pair of rollers and the second pair of rollers are simultaneously moved according to a position detected by the position detecting sensor in the same direction of the width direction which is perpendicular to the conveying direction. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120235352 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a sheet stacking apparatus comprises a conveyance path, a plurality of stackers, a plurality of gates, a skew sensor, and a control unit. The gates are arranged in a number corresponding to the number of stackers, and guide the sheets from the conveyance path into the stackers, respectively. The skew sensor detects the skew of the sheet conveyed along the conveyance path. The control unit drives a gate corresponding to a stacker, in which the sheet is to be stacked, in accordance with the skew value of the sheet detected by the skew sensor upstream of the gate corresponding to the stacker, in which the sheet is to be stacked, in the direction in which the sheet is conveyed along the conveyance path. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120248694 | Printing Apparatus - There is provided a printing apparatus including: a printing mechanism; a plurality of trays; a discharge mechanism; a plurality of detection mechanisms which detect whether a height of the sheets stacked on the trays is not less than a threshold value; and a controller which controls the discharge mechanism and the printing mechanism. When the detection mechanisms detect that all heights of the sheets stacked on the trays are not less than the threshold value, the controller controls the discharge mechanism to discontinue a discharge of the sheets. After the discharge of the sheets is discontinued, when the detection mechanisms detect that the heights of the sheets stacked on at least two trays became smaller than the threshold value, the controller controls the discharge mechanism to resume the discharge of the sheets on a tray which is other than a tray which is recovered first. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120267849 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A sheet count at which printed sheets are stacked on a sheet stacking unit is received from a user. It is controlled to divide the printed sheets into sheets at the sheet count received from the user and stack the printed sheets on the sheet stacking unit. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20130009360 | PAPER-COLLECTING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING APPARATUS - A paper-collecting apparatus for printing apparatuses is disclosed. The paper-collecting apparatus comprises a fixing board having two first protrusion portions; a first paper holding tray having two first hooks, and two second protrusion portions; wherein each of the two first hooks corresponds to each of the two first protrusion portions; and each of the two second protrusion portions is beside each of the two first hooks; and a second paper holding tray having two second hooks; wherein each of the two second hooks corresponds to each of the two second protrusion portions, wherein the first paper holding tray is fixed on to the fixing board by each of the two first hooks engages with each of the two first protrusion portions; and the second paper tray is fixed on to the first paper tray by each of the two second hooks engages with each of the two second protrusion portions. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130015623 | 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. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130113160 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - An apparatus includes a print control unit, a determining unit, and a control unit. The print control unit causes a printing unit to print an image on a sheet and causes one of a plurality of discharge units to discharge at least one sheet on which the image is printed by the printing unit facing downward. The determining unit determines whether some of the discharge units are to be used for discharging sheets for an input print job. In response to determining that the some of the discharge units are to be used for the input print job, the print control unit discharges the sheets to the some of the discharge units such that a former page of the sheets is discharged to a lower-level discharge unit and a latter page of the sheets is discharged to an upper-level discharge unit. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130134668 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FORMING AN AUXILIARY STACK - A method for forming an auxiliary stack when a sheet stack is changed in a sheet delivery of a sheet-processing machine includes providing an auxiliary stack support for supporting the auxiliary stack during a non-stop stack change and multiple stop and separator elements disposed outside a stacking area in front of edges of the sheet stack to form a gap in a stream of sheets conveyed by a conveying system and released to fall onto the sheet stack. The sheet stack is lowered to form a gap for the auxiliary stack support, the stop elements for the front edge and the rear edge of the sheet stack are moved into a disengaged stand-by position before the main stack is lowered. For this purpose, the stop elements are equipped with remote-controllable actuating devices that are connected to a control unit. A device for forming an auxiliary stack is also provided. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130193641 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which performs image forming processing on sheets and outputs the sheets to a sheet stacking unit includes an instruction unit configured to issue an instruction for shutting down the image forming apparatus, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a remaining amount of sheets stacked in the sheet stacking unit, and a control unit configured to display, when the instruction unit receives the instruction, a warning indicating a shift to a state in which sheets are not extractable from the sheet stacking unit, based on the remaining amount of sheets acquired by the acquisition unit. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130264771 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a first discharge opening and a second discharge opening, a sheet discharge portion, a restricting member and a sheet discharge tray. The sheet discharge portion is connected at a position below the first discharge opening, and the sheet discharged through the first discharge opening is to be placed thereon. The restricting member stands up on a downstream side of the sheet discharge portion in a discharging direction of the sheet and can come into contact with a downstream end edge of the sheet discharged to the sheet discharge portion in the discharging direction. The sheet discharge tray includes a first fixing portion and a second fixing portion to be fixed to an upper end part of the restricting member and is attachable above the sheet discharge portion, and a sheet discharged through the second discharge opening is to be placed thereon. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20140015193 | Adjustable Tray Rack - A machine to sort documents includes a stacker having a tier of the plurality of pockets and a magazine positioned at one end of the stacker. A first transport and a second transport operably associated with the magazine are configured to carry the documents through the stacker. Once the sorted documents are at the end of the machine, there is a tray system operably associated with the machine to allow the user to store the resulting sorted documents from the machine. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140042694 | RELAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image forming system including: the relay apparatus; the image forming device which is connected to the first communication control unit of the relay apparatus and which acquires the sheet interval information of the downstream post-processing device through the first communication system; and the second post-processing device which is connected to the second communication control unit of the relay apparatus, the second post-processing device being compliant with the second communication system. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20150102556 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus which include a sheet storage portion and a stacker portion and from which a user can easily receive a sheet is provided. | 04-16-2015 |
