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| 20080211170 | SIMPLE AND INEXPENSIVE HIGH CAPACITY OUTPUT CATCH TRAY FOR DOCUMENT PRODUCTION MACHINES - The invention is relates to a simple, inexpensive high capacity output catch tray for copiers and other document production machines. The output tray automatically increases in capacity as the stack of copies in it accumulates, without external power source or control. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080246212 | Closed loop scuffer for sheet handling - This is a paper-handling system using a motor driven frictional drive element to push a paper sheet into a compiling tray. The tray has a registration wall where a paper sheet is abutted to align a paper stack. The system uses a sensor to convey relevant information to the motor and drive element as to the location of the top paper sheet vis-à-vis the registration wall. By instructing the motor and drive element on the top sheets location, better and more consistent paper-stacking alignment is accomplished. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080258376 | ACCUMULATOR HAVING ROTARY DRIVE - A sheet stacking device includes a support frame, a conveyor and an accumulator at a discharge end of the conveyor, the accumulator having a plurality of elongate fingers, at least one of which includes a rack having teeth along a first side, a rotatable drive shaft extending in a width direction of the conveyor, a gear having teeth mounted on the drive shaft and operatively engaging the rack teeth, and a rotary actuator operably connected to the drive shaft, the rotary actuator rotating said drive shaft in a first and second directions to move an end of the elongate fingers toward and away from the conveyor discharge end of the conveyor. Also a method of operating the device. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080265494 | Sheet Material Accumulating Method And Sheet Material Accumulating Apparatus - Provided are a sheet material accumulating method and a sheet material accumulating apparatus capable of performing a proper accumulation of a sheet material that does not produce a defective in the next process even when an overlap condition of a conveyed sheet material, such as a printed sheet, varies. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080290590 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A discharge tray which needs to turn as a cover of an apparatus body opens and closes can be folded. When the cover is opened, the discharge tray is folded, and a wide installation area and a wide occupying area are not required. An image forming apparatus includes the apparatus body which forms an image on a recording paper sheet, an upper cover | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080296833 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A sheet processing apparatus which is capable of accurately superimposing or aligning sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus during buffering even when the space intervals between the sheets are reduced. A sheet processing apparatus sequentially receives sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus and carries out post-processing on the sheets. During execution of the post-processing on the sheets, a plurality of sheets are discharged successively from the image forming apparatus and superimposed one upon another around a buffer roller. The conveying speed of the sheets is controlled such that a conveying time period over which a sheet preceding a final one of the sheets to be superimposed one upon another around the buffer roller is conveyed over a predetermined path section is shorter than a conveying time period over which the final one is conveyed over the predetermined path section. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080303205 | STACKER TRAY ASSEMBLY FOR A PHOTOCOPIER - A stacker tray assembly for a photocopier is easily mounted or removed from the copier, and permits facile handling of large copies. The stacker tray assembly for a photocopier for producing large copies has a main plate which has a copy side for insertion into the copier and a copy receiving end for receiving copies oppositely disposed therefrom. The stacker tray assembly also has a tilt plate at the copy receiving end to support the copies, as they exit the copier. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080315505 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SHEET POST-PROCESSING METHOD - A bundle claw attached to a sheet conveyor belt includes a concave portion having a bottom surface for regulating a position of a trailing end of the sheets, and, in the bottom surface, a surface on a lower side that comes into contact with the sheet conveyor belt is formed deeper than a surface on an upper side to form the step portion between the surface on the lower side and the surface on the upper side. Therefore, when a small number of sheets are discharged from a processing tray to a stacking tray, a trailing end of the sheets is located on the lower surface side of the concave surface of the bundle claw, where the trailing end of the sheets should be originally located, and does not move to the upper surface side of the concave surface of the bundle claw. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090020944 | PRINTING MACHINE AND DELIVERY OF PRINTING MACHINE - It is an object of the present invention to secure safety of a human body accessible to a side of a delivery conveyor during operations of a printing machine. Each of sensors | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090039593 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus and associated method are provided. The sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet conveying path, a sheet stack tray, a sheet discharging member, a sheet guide member, and a sheet contact portion. The sheet conveying path is configured to convey a sheet, the sheet discharging member discharges the sheet to the sheet stack tray, and the sheet stack tray receives the sheet. The sheet guide member is movable from a first position that guides the sheet discharged from the sheet discharging member to a second position that opens a sheet discharge path of the sheet discharging member. The sheet contact portion is arranged at an upstream side of the sheet discharging member with respect to the sheet conveying path, and responds to the sheet conveyed through the sheet conveying path in order to move the sheet guide member between the first and second positions. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090066012 | SHEET STACK APPARATUS AND SHEET STACKING METHOD - A sheet stack apparatus comprises a storage portion configured to support sheets conveyed one by one in a standing position, an alignment member configured to move back and forth between a standby position and a predetermined position in a sheet width direction crossing a sheet conveying direction and contact with and align sheet edges in the sheet width direction at the predetermined position, and a controller configured to control the alignment member to move back and forth by the first number of times whenever sheets are stored in the storage portion and starting from a predetermined number of sheets before a last sheet of the sheets conveyed to the storage portion, and control the alignment member to move back and forth by the second number of times larger than the first number of times. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090066013 | SHEET POST-PROCESS APPARATUS - A waiting tray is provided in a sheet-conveying path and holds sheets if the sheets need to be post-processed. A processing tray receives sheets conveyed from the waiting tray. It may receive sheets conveyed through the sheet-conveying path and coming not via the waiting tray, before the sheets are post-processed. A conveying mechanism is provided, which causes the sheets to fall, due to gravity, from the waiting tray onto a processing tray. A sheet-aligning mechanism aligns the sheets on the processing tray, at their transverse edges and longitudinal edges. On the processing tray, the sheets are post-processed, forming a bundle. The conveying mechanism conveys the bundle of sheets to a storage tray. The waiting trays have sidewalls, each having at least one part that is inclined outwards. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090102115 | FINISHER APPARATUS - A flexible strip of low coefficient of friction material is attached to a paddle wheel hub and placed over a predetermined length of the drive side of the paddle wheel blades in order to reduce the drive force of the paddle wheel blades on the top sheet in a stack to thereby allow the accurate compiling of a greater range of curled sheets. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090127770 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING MEDIUM STORAGE APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR STORING PRINTING MEDIUM - The present invention provides a printing medium storage apparatus, a printing apparatus, and a method for storing printing medium which prevent wrinkles and curl of a printing medium while preventing limitation of use according to the size of the printing medium. The printing apparatus performs printing on a sheet, and has a discharging port formed for discharging a sheet on which printing was performed, and a sheet storage apparatus which stores a printing medium on which printing was performed. The printing apparatus includes a sheet support surface which supports a sheet discharged from the discharging port, and a sheet pressing member which presses the sheet against the sheet support surface. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090127771 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet stacking device includes a liftable/lowerable sheet stacking portion on which sheets to be ejected are stackable. The sheet stacking portion moves downward as an amount of stacked sheets increases. The sheet stacking device includes a movable member disposed below the sheet stacking portion with a space therebetween, and a detecting portion configured to output a signal in accordance with a position of the movable member. Ejection of the sheet to the sheet stacking portion is stopped on the basis of the signal output from the detecting portion in accordance with downward movement of the movable member. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090146368 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Operation of the sheet stacking apparatus | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090146369 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a sheet stacking apparatus, whose lifting and lowering mechanism having excellent assembly properties and maintenance properties. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090152804 | MAILPIECE CONTAINER FOR STACKING MIXED MAIL AND METHOD FOR STACKING MAIL THEREIN - A system is provided for stacking mail having an escort assembly for handling each mailpiece. The system comprises a containment device, a transport mechanism and a detachment mechanism. The containment device includes a base, vertical walls extending from the base and an open end for accepting the mailpieces therein, The containment device, furthermore, has a slot formed in at least one of the vertical walls thereof. The transport mechanism includes first and second transport segment, the first transport segment conveying escort assemblies and respective mailpieces over an open end of the containment device and the second transport segment lowering the escort assemblies and respective mailpieces into the open end of the containment device, The transport mechanism furthermore aligns the edges of the mailpieces along one of the vertical walls of the containment device and positions the escort assembly through the slot of the containment device. The detachment mechanism is operative to release the mailpieces from the respective escort assembly and move the escort assemblies through the slot of the containment device. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090166958 | Sheet-Discharging Apparatus for Sheet-Fed Printing Press - To provide a sheet-discharging apparatus for a sheet-fed printing press in which a fan device is downsized, the visibility of an operator is improved, cleaning operation of the fan device is carried out easily, and a blast fan may be shifted easily and quickly to a desired position according to the size or the material of a sheet to be printed. There is provided a sheet-discharging apparatus for a sheet-fed printing press including: a fan device having a plurality of blast fans and a frame for mounting the blast fans, in which at least some of the plurality of blast fans are arranged in contact with the lower surface of a frame body corresponding to elongated openings formed on the thin-plate shaped frame body which constitutes the frame, and are slidable in the feeding direction and/or in the widthwise direction with respect to the frame body. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090200730 | Stack alignment device, sheet discharge device and image forming apparatus - A disclosed catch tray for stacking thereon sheets discharged from an apparatus includes a first sheet-stacking area disposed upstream of a sheet discharging direction and having a sloping surface extending upwardly from an upstream side to a downstream side of the sheet discharging direction; a second sheet-stacking area extending from an end of the sloping surface on the downstream side; a first regulation part disposed, within the second sheet-stacking area, on the downstream side of the sheet discharging direction, and configured to regulate edges of the discharged sheets of a largest size allowed to be stacked on the catch tray; and a second regulation part disposed in the first sheet-stacking area, and configured to regulate edges of the discharged sheets of a size smaller than the largest size and elastically deform in the sheet discharging direction when a sheet of the largest size is discharged so as to allow the first regulation part to regulate an edge of the sheet of the largest size. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090200731 | Printer - A printer comprising a cover, and a stacker that is attached to the cover, the stacker being supported pivotably about a pivot axis on the cover between a protruding position where the stacker receives paper discharged from the printer, and a retracted position rotated a predetermined angle from the protruding position. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090206546 | Sheet Ejecting Device - A sheet ejecting device having a pair of ejection rollers, a strengthener, arranged in a sheet ejection device, for strengthening a sheet, a driver for moving the strengthener to advance into and retreat from the sheet ejection route, a sheet sensor, and a tray for receiving sheets ejected via the pair of ejection rollers and holding the sheets in a stack. Based on a detection signal from the sheet sensor, the strengthener is moved to advance into and retreat from the sheet ejection route so that only a necessary part of a sheet can be strengthened. Thereby, the sheet can be ejected onto a tray in alignment with a stack of sheets on the tray without pushing the stack of sheets out of alignment. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100007080 | SHEET HANDLING DEVICE AND SHEET HANDLING METHOD - A sheet handling device includes a main transport path, a temporarily holding section provided in the main transport path, a transport section, a detection section provided at a predetermined detection position in the main transport path and a controller. The temporarily holding section includes a looped transport path. The controller performs a procedure including the steps of (I) transporting the sheet traveling along the main transport path to the looped transport path, (II) transporting another sheet along the main transport path, (III) controlling the transportation of the sheet and the transportation of said another sheet in response to the arrival of said another sheet at the detection position such that the sheets are stacked into a bunch in the looped transport path with certain parts of the sheets being aligned and (IV) repeating the steps (II) and (III) as required. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100025924 | System and Method for Sensing a Media Stack from Side of Stack and Delivery Path to Stack to Detect Given Stack Height - A system for sensing a media stack to detect a given stack height includes a stack site in an output bin and a mechanical flag mounted adjacent to a side thereof in a counterbalanced state at a home position where an exposed portion of the flag extends into a media sheet delivery path where it is struck by an edge of repetitive media sheets moving to the site. The striking of the exposed portion by the sheet edge causes the flag to deflect to a displaced position outside of the delivery path, allowing the sheet to land on the site increasing the height of a media sheet stack at the site. The counterbalanced state further allows the flag to return to the home position with its exposed portion in the media path until a given stack height is reached where the stack blocks further return of the flag indicating that the output bin is full. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100059931 | DEVICE FOR DEPOSITING SHEETS IN A STACK - The present invention relates to a device for depositing sheets for a printing machine, said device comprising at least one rotating drivable sheet transport element, which is designed to receive or grasp a leading edge of a sheet and deposit said sheet on a stack after said sheet has traveled a path of rotation, and comprising at least one drag element for pulling a sheet that has been deposited on the stack toward a mechanical stop. With the present invention, the drag element is coupled with the rotation of the sheet transport element and is arranged in such a manner that said drag element can assume an inoperative position within the region covered by the rotating sheet transport element, and that said drag element, in order to perform its dragging function, can be moved at least partially out of the region covered by the rotating sheet transport element. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100078877 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus, including: a recording head configured to record an image on a recording medium; a conveying mechanism disposed so as to face the recording head and configured to convey the recording medium in a medium conveyance direction that is substantially horizontal; a retaining portion disposed configured to hold and retain the recording medium on which the image has been recorded by the recording head, such that the recording medium is held and retained in a substantially horizontal posture; and a medium receiving portion to which the recording medium on which the image has been recorded by the recording head is discharged, wherein the recording head, the retaining portion, and the medium receiving portion are arranged in a vertical direction. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100219579 | Stacker and card processing apparatus equipped with the stacker - A stacker is composed of a bottom plate, a containing section for storing a plurality of cards by stacking it on the bottom plate and a guiding section for guiding each card entering into the containing section. The guiding section is composed of a sidewall for restricting movement of an entering card when entering into the stacker in a first moving direction and a slanted section for slanting the card against the first moving direction. The slanted card moves in a second moving direction intersecting with the first moving direction at approximately a right angle by the gravitational force. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100237556 | Sheet stacker and image forming apparatus - A sheet processing apparatus includes a fixed tray and a movable tray. The fixed tray is fixed at its downstream portion in a sheet transport direction and includes a sheet loading surface. A downstream portion of the sheet loading surface of the fixed tray is positioned at a higher level than an upstream portion thereof. The movable tray is pivotally supported, at its upstream portion, by a pivot support provided on the fixed tray. An angle between a sheet loading surface of the movable tray and a horizontal direction is more gentle than an angle between the sheet loading surface of the fixed tray and the horizontal direction. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100270737 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS - In a sheet stacking apparatus, a sheet stacking unit stacks sheets conveyed by a sheet conveyance device. Three sheet extraction portions allow to selectively extract the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking unit from one of three directions including the downstream side of the sheet conveyance direction and two directions perpendicular to the sheet conveyance direction. A plurality of first detection sensors are provided in at least two of the three sheet extraction portions to detect an object that enters the sheet stacking unit. A second detection sensor detects the moving direction of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking unit. A control device stops the operation of the sheet conveyance device when the first detection sensor detects the object, and disables the detection operation of the first detection sensor corresponding to the moving direction of the sheets when the second detection sensor detects the moving direction of the sheets. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110024975 | Recording Apparatus - A recording apparatus having a discharge section that discharges a recording medium that has undergone a recording process and a stacker that receives the recording medium discharged from the discharge section includes an engagement mechanism that attaches the stacker to the discharge section in a removable state. The engagement mechanism has: a first engagement portion provided in the discharge section; a second engagement portion, provided in the stacker, that engages with the first engagement portion; and a guidance portion that guides the second engagement portion into the first engagement portion and extends in at least an upward direction. The second engagement portion is biased, by a biasing unit provided in the stacker, in the upward direction so as to move in the guidance portion; and when an external force that opposes the biasing force of the biasing unit is applied to the stacker and that external force is released, the second engagement portion rises due to the biasing force, is guided by the guidance portion, and engages with the first engagement portion. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110037218 | METHOD FOR LOADING A FOLDED SHEET BUNDLE - A method for loading a folded sheet bundle provided from a sheet bundle provider with a folded edge of the folded sheet bundle in the lead, including: supporting an undersurface of the folded sheet bundle so that the folded edge is lower than a trailing edge of the folded sheet bundle by a hill, the hill including a slope between a folded edge support and the sheet bundle provider, the hill further including a valley wall declined steeper than the slope from the higher side to the lower side between the slope and the folded edge support; supporting the folded edge of the folded sheet bundle by the folded edge support; and moving the folded edge support without rotation in a direction declined from a higher side near the sheet bundle provider to a lower side farther from the sheet bundle provider than the higher side. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110068532 | BANNER SHEET FOR COPY JOBS - A method for creating and inserting a banner sheet in an output bin of a multi-function device for copy jobs. Thus, the user can leave the copy job in progress, safe in the knowledge that the copy will be recognized and filed along with other print jobs. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110074097 | PAPER-OUT MECHANISM FOR PRINTING APPARATUS - A paper-out mechanism for a printing apparatus, includes a paper out wall and a paper out board. The paper out wall defines a paper out opening via which a printing apparatus discharges printed papers out. The paper out opening includes a first edge and a second edge facing to the first edge. The paper out board is slidably mounted on the paper out wall below the paper out opening. The paper out board is capable of receiving printed papers discharged from the paper out opening. The paper out board includes an adapter portion which includes a first side and a second side. A distance between the first side and second side is greater than a distance between the first edge and the second edge. The paper out board is slidable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the first side of the adapter portion is in alignment with the first edge of the paper out opening. In the second position, the second side of the adapter portion is in alignment with the second edge of the paper out opening. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110074098 | PAPER SHEETS STORAGE AND PAPER SHEETS HANDLING APPARATUS - The provides a two money kinds recycle box provided with a plurality of paper money accumulating portions and storing and feeding the paper money at one position, thereby simplifying a carrier path structure of a whole of a paper money inputting and outputting machine provided with the two money kinds recycle box, and corresponding to a lot of money kinds with a compact structure. The two money kinds recycle box is provided with an output and input port outputting and inputting the paper money with respect to an external portion, a plurality of paper money accumulating portions storing the paper money, a pickup roller provided at one position of each of the paper money accumulating portions and carrying out an accumulating motion of the paper sheets onto the paper money accumulating portions and a feeding motion of the paper sheets from the accumulating portions, and a two-way carrier path carrying the paper sheets in a two-way direction between the one output and input port and a plurality of pickup rollers. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110115152 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a sheet aligning device that increases, when the number of sheets conveyed thereto exceeds a predetermined number, the number of times of an aligning operation of the sheet aligning device, which aligns the sheets conveyed thereto, to be larger than the number of times of the aligning operation at the number of sheets equal to or smaller than this predetermined number. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110140348 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a discharge portion configured to discharge a sheet having a folding portion, a conveyance portion configured to abut on a lower surface of the sheet discharged by the discharge portion, to convey the sheet downstream in a sheet conveyance direction of the discharge portion, a pressing portion arranged at a position opposing the conveyance portion, configured to press an upper surface of the sheet discharged by the discharge portion, and a moving portion configured to move the pressing portion in the sheet conveyance direction of the conveyance portion, in which the moving portion moves the pressing portion upstream in the sheet conveyance direction of the conveyance portion, to move the pressing portion from a position where the sheet discharged by the discharge portion is not pressed to a position where the sheet discharged by the discharge portion is pressed. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110198801 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an image forming apparatus which can secure a stacking ability even when a paper is curled. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110233852 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTED-MATERIAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A stack state of a plurality of trays is collectively determined and is notified in steps. A printing apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet and create a printed material, a plurality of storage units each configured to store the printed material created by the image forming unit, a sorter unit configured to output the printed material to the plurality of storage units, and a determining unit configured to determine whether the plurality of storage units are in a nearly full state in which printed material is stored in almost all of the plurality of storage units. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110241287 | PAPER SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE - A paper sheet processing device is provided in which no load is imposed on a primary drive which drives a pressing part for pressing the paper sheets stacked and accommodated and a shutter for opening and closing an insertion slot. The paper sheet processing device of the present invention has an insertion slot through which a paper sheet is inserted, a shutter | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110260392 | HORIZONTAL SENSOR AND VARIABLE PATTERN FOR DETECTING VERTICAL STACKER POSITION - This invention provides an effective and inexpensive stacker tray assembly apparatus and method for determining an elevator stacker tray location in the assembly. A sensor is attached to the stacker tray so that it is in sensing proximity to a continuous variable slanted shape marker. The marker has measurables therein where the measurables decrease in measurement as they proceed from a bottom of the marker to an upper portion of the marker. The sensor is substantially shorter than a length of the movable elevator stacker tray travel. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110278789 | RECORDING MEDIUM STACKER AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A first stacker is configured so that a support surface includes a base-side support surface that forms a planar shape on the base end side of the support surface and a leading edge-side support surface that forms a planar shape that tilts upward toward the leading edge. A second stacker is configured so that a support surface forms a planar shape, and is held in a tilted orientation during use so that the support surface of the second stacker continues to the leading edge of the second stacker in the same upward-tilted state with respect to the leading edge-side support surface of the first stacker. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110316225 | Sheet eject device, fullness detecting method, and computer-readable recording medium - A sheet eject device is provided for detecting whether a sheet eject tray is filled with ejected sheets. The sheet eject device includes an ejecting unit that ejects sheets onto the sheet eject tray; a counting unit that counts an accumulated eject number every time a sheet is ejected by the ejecting unit; a storing unit that stores a defined eject number threshold and a defined eject interval time; a fullness detecting unit that detects that the sheet eject tray is filled with ejected sheets when the accumulated eject number counted by the counting unit exceeds the defined eject number threshold; and a reset unit that resets the accumulated eject number counted by the counting unit when an eject interval time exceeds the defined eject interval time, the eject interval time extending from when one sheet is ejected until a next sheet is ejected by the ejecting unit. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120007306 | STACKER DEVICE - A stacker device includes a conveying belt, a longitudinal receiving guide, a paper sheet discharge detecting part, a first detecting part having a rod body, a second detecting part, and a control part for controlling the guide drive mechanism and the belt drive mechanism. The control part is formed so as to control both the mechanisms so that after the predetermined time T, which is required for the paper sheet to be stacked on the stacking surface after the paper sheet discharge detecting part detects the rear edge of the paper sheet having been conveyed to the discharging roller, passes and until the first detecting part detects the paper sheet, the longitudinal receiving guide and the conveying belt move to the upstream side of the conveyance direction at the same time, and after that, until the first detecting part does not detect the paper sheet, the longitudinal receiving guide and the conveying belt move to the downstream side of the conveyance direction at the same time. Additionally, the control part is formed so as to control the belt drive mechanism so that, when the second detecting part detects the non-standing position of the paper sheet, only the conveying belt moves to the downstream side of the conveyance direction by the predetermined distance. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120025452 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS - The disclosure concerns a standby tray for making a sheet at the position above a processing tray. The sheet on the standby tray is dropped and supplied onto the processing tray. The upper end of the center area of a shutter supporting the rear end of the sheet on a sheet discharge tray which is slidable to the sheet discharge section of the standby tray or processing tray is made lower than the upper end of the peripheral area of the shutter. Movable portions of the shutter are extended when the sheet discharge tray is slid to close the sheet discharge sections of the processing tray and/or standby tray. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120098188 | PAPER DISCHARGE DEVICE OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a paper discharge device includes a discharged-sheet receiving part that can be opened and closed on a side surface of an apparatus body, is closed on the side surface and receives a recording medium dropped from above along the side surface after image formation. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098189 | APPARATUS FOR STRAPPING STACKS OF SHEET DOCUMENTS, APPARATUS FOR FORMING STACKS OF SHEET DOCUMENTS AND CORRESPONDING METHODS - A strapping apparatus ( | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120181742 | SHEET DISCHARGE DEVICE - In a sheet discharge device, sheets are sequentially discharged by a sheet discharge roller with a leading end of each of the sheets in the lead in a sheet discharge direction and stacked on a sheet receiving tray inclining relative to a vertical direction. A sheet reverse member is disposed at such a position relative to the sheet receiving tray and the sheet discharge roller that a trailing end of a first sheet discharged by the sheet discharge roller reaches the sheet reverse member before a leading end of a second sheet discharged subsequently to the first sheet collides with the first sheet when a sheet time interval between the trailing end of the first sheet and the leading end of the second sheet is set to a minimum sheet time interval available in continuous sheet discharge in the sheet discharge device. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120193866 | LOW-NOISE MAILPIECE STORAGE DEVICE - A storage device for a mail-handling machine, said storage device comprising a mailpiece-receiving deck along a longitudinal edge of which a referencing wall extends, and through which a conveyor belt passes for the purpose of conveying mailpieces along said referencing wall, and a shock-absorber ramp that is mounted against the referencing wall and that is hit by the mailpieces after they are ejected from said mail-handling machine, and before they fall back down onto the conveyor belt so as to be conveyed towards the sloping surface. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120193867 | Sheet Conveyor Device, Image Reading Device, and Image Forming Apparatus - A conveyor device includes conveyor unit to convey a sheet along a path, a holder disposed at a downstream end of the path and holding sheets discharged from the conveyor unit in a stack, and a pressing unit. The pressing unit moves between a first position and a third position via a second position, contacts an uppermost sheet in the stack, and rises in an upward direction that approaches the third position as the sheets in the stack increase. The conveyor device also includes an urging member that does not apply an urging force to the pressing unit when the pressing unit is positioned between the first position and the second position; and applies an urging force to the pressing unit to urge the pressing unit toward the first position when the pressing unit is positioned between the second position and the third position. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120217697 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE - A sheet stacking device for a sheet handling system, a method and a computer program product are provided for controlling a sheet stacking device of a sheet handling system. The sheet stacking device includes at least one sheet entrance pathway for receiving incoming sheets and a sheet output unit with at least one output tray for stacking the received sheets to form a at least one stack on the at least one output tray. The sheet stacking device further includes a control unit for determining the weight of the stack on the at least one output tray and for providing a control signal if the determined weight exceeds a predetermined value, and a stack separating mechanism for distinguishing two or more stacks on the same output tray, said stack separating mechanism being controlled by the control unit to limit the weight of the distinguished stacks. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20130026702 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus move, when stacking a sheet on a stacking tray, a supporting tray disposed to freely appear above the stacking tray to a first position in which the supporting tray projects above the stacking tray and supports the sheet stacked on an intermediate stacking tray. When these apparatuses discharge a processed sheet bundle, these apparatuses move the supporting tray from the first position to a second position in which the supporting tray supports an edge of the discharged sheet in an upstream side in a discharging direction, and guides the moving sheet bundle to a stacking wall. Further, these apparatuses move the supporting tray from the second position to a third position at predetermined timing, so that the supporting tray stops supporting the sheet bundle and stacks the sheet bundle on the sheet bundle previously stacked on the stacking tray. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130075969 | PAPER DISCHARGE TRAY FOR ALIGNING SHEETS - A paper discharge tray includes a placing part on which a recording medium discharged from a paper discharge part is placed; and a projection which is provided on the placing part and includes plural apexes arranged in a paper discharge direction of the recording medium. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130134660 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a sheet container, a sheet stacking member to closably open the sheet container; a restriction unit to restrict a swinging movement of the sheet stacking member, and a stopper mechanism to restrict insertion of the sheet container into the image forming apparatus in a state in which the sheet stacking member swings open from the sheet container. The stopper mechanism includes a stopped member provided to the sheet container and being movable vertically along the swinging movement of the sheet stacking member, and a stopper member provided to the image forming apparatus and being contactable with the stopped member. The stopped member includes a stopped surface contacted by the stopper member in a state in which the stopped member is lifted; and a switching surface adjacent to the stopped surface and vertically moving the stopped member by contact against the stopper member. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130193637 | RECORDING MEDIUM DISCHARGE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A drive controlling unit causes an ascending and descending unit to lower a recording medium discharge tray, and then causes raising of the recording medium discharge tray until detection of the upper surface of the recording medium by an upper surface detection sensor. A determining unit determines whether a raising time of the recording medium discharge tray measured by a measuring unit is a predetermined abnormal time. When the raising time is determined by the determining unit not to be the abnormal time, the drive controlling unit causes the recording medium discharge unit to execute the subsequent recording medium discharge into the recording medium discharge tray. When the raising time is determined by the determining unit to be the abnormal time, the drive controlling unit causes the recording medium discharge unit to stop the subsequent recording medium discharge into the recording medium discharge tray. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130221609 | POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH SHEET EJECTION DEVICE - A post-processing apparatus with a sheet ejection device includes a first sheet tray, a second sheet tray, and a sheet ejection arm. The sheet ejection arm includes a first pushing element and a second pushing element. The second pushing element is pivotally coupled to the first pushing element. The tail edges of the plural paper sheets are pushed by the sheet ejection arm from the first end of the first sheet tray, so that the plural paper sheets are moved toward the second end of the first sheet tray. When the tail edges of the plural paper sheets reach the second end of the first sheet tray, the second pushing element is swung toward the second sheet tray to press the tail edges of the plural paper sheets, so that the plural paper sheets are aligned with each other and smoothly fallen down to the second sheet tray. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130307211 | SHEET EJECTION TRAY - A sheet ejection tray on which a sheet ejected from a sheet ejection port lands, includes: an inclined surface that becomes higher as farther from the sheet ejection port in a sheet ejecting direction; a projecting member that is provided in a region closer to the sheet ejection port than the position on which a leading end of the sheet having a dimension not smaller than a predetermined value lands and which has a guiding surface more inclined than the inclined surface; and an abutting cover that contacts a rear end of the sheet moving toward the sheet ejection port due to the inclination of the guiding surface. The leading end of the sheet passes above the projecting member before landing on the guiding surface. A portion of the sheet closer to the sheet ejection port than the leading end lands on the guiding surface. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130334768 | PAPER SHEET STORING UNIT - First retention member | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130341855 | PRINTER WITH RE-POSITIONABLE PAPER OUTPUT TRAY - A printer includes an enclosure, a paper output tray, and two positioning devices. The enclosure includes a receiving base and two side portions extending from the receiving base. The paper output tray is pivotally mounted between the two side portions. The two positioning devices are mounted to the two side portions. The paper output tray is placed in the receiving base in a first position. The paper output tray can rotate to resist each of the two positioning devices and move to a side portion, thereby enabling the paper output tray to rotate to a second position. Each of the two positioning devices restores to an original position to support the paper output tray stably in the second position, to enable the removal of a paper jam or other circumstance. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140001702 | PAPER COLLECTOR FOR PRINTER | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140062002 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A sheet stacking device includes a device main body, a sheet discharge unit, a sheet stacking portion and a sheet detector. The sheet discharge unit discharges sheets. The sheet stacking portion includes a sheet stacking surface on which the sheets are to be stacked. The opening is formed in the sheet stacking surface. The sheet detector includes a detection piece capable of projecting upwardly of the sheet stacking surface from the opening. The sheet detector detects a first state, a second state and a third state. The first state is a state where no sheet is placed on the sheet stacking surface. The second state is a state where a first number of the sheets discharged are placed on the sheet stacking surface. The third state is a state where a second number of the sheets larger than the first number are placed on the sheet stacking surface. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140091514 | SHEET DISCHARGE DEVICE, METHOD FOR DETECTING SHEET-LOADING, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING SHEET LOADING-DETECTION PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SHEET DISCHARGE DEVICE - There is provided a sheet discharge unit which includes a tray which a first area and a second area, a discharge mechanism, a pendulum mechanism, a signal transmission mechanism which transmits a first signal and a second signal, a memory, and a controller. The controller judges whether or not a time interval of two sheets discharged consecutively exceeds the first time interval, and judges that the sheets loaded onto the tray up to a height not lower than the reference position, when the time interval of the two sheets exceeds the first time interval, and when the signal transmission mechanism continues to transmit the second signal exceeding the first time interval. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140145394 | 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. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140151957 | SHEET LOADING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A sheet loading device includes a housing, a sheet discharge portion, a sheet loading portion, a plurality of ribs, an actuator, and a sheet detecting portion. A shaft is disposed above the sheet loading portion, and extends in a sheet width direction intersecting a discharge direction. A contact piece extends from the shaft to the sheet loading portion, and rotates integrally with the shaft when a sheet discharged to the sheet loading portion comes into contact with the contact piece. A sheet detecting portion detects, in accordance with the rotation of the contact piece about the shaft, a state where one sheet is loaded on the sheet loading portion, and a state where sheets as many as a predetermined number of sheets regarded as a full load state are loaded on the sheet loading portion. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140210158 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING STACKER CAPACITY - A media stacking system suitable for processing flexible substrate sheets includes an elevating stacker support and a controller configured to control the elevating stacker support according to a weight of a cut sheet stack supported by the elevating stacker support in loading positions. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140300047 | PAPER POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS - A paper post-processing apparatus comprises a processing tray section; a post-processing section; a paper discharge tray section; a first chuck section configured to hold the rear end of the paper standing by in the buffer section; a second chuck section configured to hold the rear end of the paper loaded on the processing tray; and a third chuck section configured to hold the rear end of the paper loaded on the paper discharge tray; wherein a next paper is fed onto the paper held by the first chuck section in the buffer section, a paper is fed onto the paper held by the second chuck section from the buffer section in the processing tray section, and a paper is discharged onto the paper on the paper discharge tray held by the third chuck section from the processing tray section in the paper discharge tray section. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20150035226 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet post-processing apparatus which facilitates eliminating of a jammed sheet occurring in the path when sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus are stored as being sorted into two directions. The present invention comprises a sheet post-processing apparatus including a first conveying path through which a sheet introduced from a first introducing port is conveyed, a second conveying path through which a sheet introduced from a second introducing port is conveyed, and a stack portion which stacks sheets conveyed through the second conveying path and which is configured to have at least a part of the stack portion be swingable about an axis intersecting with a sheet conveyance direction of a sheet conveyed to the second conveying path between a stack position where sheets are stacked and an open position where the first introducing port of the first conveying path is opened. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150302679 | MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE - The present invention provides a media processing device having improved ease of use. An automatic teller machine has: a housing having predetermined space at interior thereof, and at which opening portion is formed in at least one side surface; a unit housing that houses plural storage containers storing bank notes, and that can be accommodated within the housing, and that is provided so as to be able to be pulled out along a pull out direction to exterior of the housing via the opening portion; and a reject container housing case that is structured so as to be able to be attached to and removed from the unit housing at a front side of a unit housing front surface plate that is at a distal end side in the pull out direction of the unit housing, and that houses a reject container that stores bank notes. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20160083214 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying device includes a conveyor, a first cover and a second cover movable in conjunction with the first cover. The second cover includes a restricted portion configured to be moved together with the second cover. The first cover includes a restricting portion configured to contact the restricted portion to prevent the second cover from being moved from a first position toward a second position when the first cover is located at a closed position. The restricting portion and the restricted portion are contacted to each other at a contact position at which a force, which is applied from the restricted portion toward the restricting portion when the second cover receives an external force, does not include a component force acting in a direction of moving the first cover from the closed position toward an opened position. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160122152 | METHOD FOR LIMITING A HEIGHT OF A STACK OF SHEETS IN A PRINTING DEVICE - In a method for limiting a height of a stack of sheets in an output holder of an image reproduction system, the output holder being configured to hold a stack of sheets printed upon by the image reproduction system according to a print job submitted to the image reproduction system, the image reproduction system including a control unit for controlling the receiving and printing of the print job, the method includes receiving a print job at the image reproduction system, the print job comprising image data to be printed and a plurality of print job settings, starting printing the print job by the image reproduction system, and delivering printed sheets of the print job to the output holder. The plurality of print job settings include a setting for a maximum height of a stack in the output holder settable per print job, the method including establishing a value for the setting for the maximum stack height of the stack, and stopping the delivering of the printed sheets of the print job to the output holder upon the stack reaching the maximum height set in the setting for the maximum stack height. An image reproduction system is configured to execute the method. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160200541 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160376119 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming station for forming an image on the basis of image information; a top plate portion provided in an upper portion and including a stacking surface having a length in a predetermined direction longer than a length of a short side of a maximum size sheet on which the image forming station is capable of forming the image and shorter than a length of a long side of the maximum size sheet; a wall portion projected upwardly at a position of one end portion with respect to the predetermined direction of the top plate portion and provided with a wall surface inclined so as to form an obtuse angle between itself and the stacking surface of the top plate portion; and a connecting portion having a curved surface configured to connect the stacking surface and the wall surface with each other. | 12-29-2016 |
