| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 271213000 | With movable sheet-surface support | 37 |
| 20080230983 | Device and Tray For Depositing Sheets - The invention relates to a device for depositing sheets in a machine that preferably processes sheets by graphic means, in particular for a printing machine, preferably for an electrophotographically operating machine, comprising at least one deposit tray for depositing and preferably also for stacking processed sheets. Furthermore, the invention relates to a deposit tray for a device of the aforementioned type. The object of the invention is to provide a device or a deposit tray of the aforementioned type, which permits a controlled depositing and stacking of sheets, in particular, at greater sheet-processing speeds, and, preferably, in a cost-effective manner. In accordance with the invention, this object is achieved in that a deposit surface of the deposit tray is arranged, or can be arranged, at an angle that deviates from the horizontal. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080315506 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SHEET POST-PROCESSING METHOD - When a sheet is conveyed from a processing tray to a stacking tray, a bar-like pushing member is moved in a direction of the stacking tray in synchronization with an ejector. Consequently, simultaneously with the movement of the sheet by the ejector, a lower surface of a leading end of the sheet is pushed to relax and reduce a contact force between the lower surface of the leading end of the sheet and the stacking tray (or an upper surface of a sheet already stacked on the stacking tray). As a result, static friction at the leading end of the sheet is changed to dynamic friction and the entire sheet is conveyed to the stacking tray without bending. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090001658 | DOCUMENT STACK LEVELING METHOD, AND A DOCUMENT FINISHER INCLUDING THE SAME - A document finisher is arranged for forming a document stack whose top surface is maintained substantially level. The document finisher includes a document stack leveling container for containing a document stack of one or more documents. Each document has a document thick side that is thicker than the opposite document thin side. The document stack leveling container includes a hollow. The document finisher is arranged for disposing documents in the hollow, thus forming a document stack therein. The hollow includes a bottom shaped such that the document stack top surface is maintained substantially level. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090160123 | OUTPUT TRAY NUDGING MECHANISM - A printing device includes a recessed output tray having a nudging mechanism including a nudger component that engages a stack of paper such that when the nudger moves, the stack will move with it and an actuating mechanism to move the nudger, thereby moving the stack of papers. The nudger may be automatic or may be controlled manually. The stack may be moved in a particular direction or may be rotated. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090200732 | SHEET DISCHARGING APPARATUS, SHEET FINISHING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet discharging apparatus including: a sheet discharging section that discharges sheets at a position lower than a height H | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090212485 | SHEET COLLECTING DEVICE, POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Providing a sheet collecting device capable of being downsized and of operating stably wherein a sheet ejecting device that conveys and ejects a sheet in the direction for making the sheet fall along a slanted sheet collecting board is provided, and a leading edge stopper that holds sheets on the sheet collecting board is set so that a trailing edge of the sheet may be at a constant height independently of a sheet size. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20110006471 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING DEVICE - A paper sheet processing apparatus including a housing part capable of stacking a paper sheet in a stable condition. A bill processing apparatus includes: a bill housing part capable of stacking the bill having been inserted into a bill insertion slot. The bill housing part includes a regulatory member having an opening through which a bill to be received; and a contact face which regulates a movement of the bill by contacting. The regulatory member is configured to make a coefficient of friction on the contact face contacting the bill greater than a coefficient of friction caused between stacked and housed bills. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110115153 | PAPER DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH PAPER DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A paper discharge apparatus including, a paper loading portion for loading a paper which is discharged; a paper rear-end abutting portion which a rear end of paper in a paper conveying direction abuts; a pair of paper holding members for holding the paper at the paper holding position when the paper is discharged; a paper holding member moving device which is connected to at least one of the pair of the paper holding members and moves the pair of the paper holding members from a paper holding position to a paper loading position; when the pair of the paper holding members reach the paper loading position, the paper holding member moving device moves at least one of the pair of the paper holding members in the opposite direction of the paper conveying direction and makes the rear end of the holding paper abut the paper rear-end abutting portion. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110233853 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS, SHEET FINISHING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET STACKING METHOD - A sheet stacking apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a movable tray having a sheet stack part whose center part is dented downward as the number of discharged and stacked sheets increases, and a movement control mechanism part to move and control the movable tray up and down. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110285077 | RECORDING MEDIUM STACKER AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A second stacker is provided with base-end projection portions and leading-end projection portions that protrude outward in the width direction from the second stacker from both sides of the second stacker at the base end of the second stacker in the pull-out direction thereof. A first stacker is provided with guide rails on which the stated projection portions slide when the second stacker is pulled out; contact portions that do not make contact with and allow the leading-end projection portions to pass when the second stacker is pulled out but prevent the base-end projection portions from passing; and a support portion that supports the leading-end projection portions when the base-end projection portions are in contact with the contact portions. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120043715 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus according to the present invention has: an apparatus main body whose external appearance is configured from an upper casing, a lower casing, and a link casing that vertically links the upper casing and the lower casing and that has a paper discharge opening for discharging paper on one side face; a paper discharge portion that is formed as a space between the upper casing and the lower casing and that is to store paper discharged from the paper discharge opening; and an operation panel portion that is disposed in a vertically tiltable manner on a front face of the upper casing. When viewing the apparatus main body from the front side, an open space that allows paper discharged to the paper discharge portion to be viewed is provided between the operation panel portion and the link casing. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20140167349 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet stacking device including a stacking tray, an auxiliary tray, and pivot limiting means. The stacking tray is disposed to be pivotable relative to an apparatus main body. The stacking tray has a stacking surface on which sheets discharged from discharging means are stacked. The auxiliary tray is pivotable between a storage position at which the auxiliary tray is stored in the stacking tray and a pivot position to which the auxiliary tray pivots from the stacking tray. Pivot limiting means limits pivoting of the auxiliary tray from the pivot position when the stacking tray is caused to pivot | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140183814 | SHEET EJECTION DEVICE - A sheet ejection device includes a sheet receiving tray provided with a sheet stack plane, a detector for detecting ejected sheets at a reference position, and a controller. Both side end of the sheet stack plane is made higher than a center thereof when viewed along a sheet ejection direction. The reference position functions as a reference for a height level of a center of an uppermost surface of stacked sheets on the sheet stack plane. During a sheet ejection operation, the controller moves the tray downward by a preset height level every ejection of a preset number of sheets until the detector detects sheets, and then newly starts to move the tray downward by the preset height level every ejection of the preset number of sheets from a time when the detector detects sheets. According to the device, sheets can be prevented from being stacked on the tray erroneously. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140197594 | PAPER DISCHARGE DEVICE - A paper discharge device includes: an end fence to restrict leading end positions of paper sheets discharged to a paper receiving tray; a lift mechanism to lower the paper receiving tray by a prescribed distance upon reach of a top surface position of the paper sheets stacked on the paper receiving tray to a reference position; an ultrasonic sensor to emit an ultrasonic wave in a horizontal direction toward the paper receiving tray from upstream of the paper receiving tray in a discharge direction in a prescribed height range including the reference position and portions above and below the reference position, and receive a reflected wave from a detection target; and a detector to detect the top surface position on a basis of changes in a reception level of the reflected wave over an elapsed time from an emission of the ultrasonic wave. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140239577 | PAPER SHEET STACKING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PAPER SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PAPER SHEET STACKING OPERATION - A paper sheet stacking apparatus includes: a stacking tray on which paper sheets are stacked; a driving section to drive the stacking tray in up and down directions corresponding to a height of the paper sheets stacked; a paper-sheet upper surface detecting section to detect an upper-most surface of the paper sheets to be stacked onto the stacking tray; a position detecting section to detect a position of the stacking tray by using a plurality of sensors respectively disposed at different positions arranged in a vertical direction, along which the stacking tray moves up and down; and a control section that determines whether or not the stacking tray is currently in a full loaded condition, based on the position of the stacking tray. By employing the information in regard to the weight and the thickness of each of the paper sheets, the control section selects any one of the sensors, provided in the position detecting section, as a full-loaded condition position sensor, and determines whether or not the stacking tray is currently in the full loaded condition, by using the full-loaded condition position sensor concerned. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140291920 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a discharging slot provided for discharging a recording medium on which an image is formed; a discharge tray including a supporting surface supporting the recording medium discharged from the discharging slot; a discharge mechanism configured to discharge the recording medium to the discharge tray through the discharging slot; and a press down mechanism including an abutting surface which is provided for pressing down the upper surface of the recording medium supported by the supporting surface of the discharge tray. The press down mechanism is rotatable about a rotation center provided on the upstream of the discharging slot in a discharge direction in which the recording medium is discharged from the discharging slot, and the abutting surface contacts with the supporting surface when no recording medium is supported by the discharge tray. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140333020 | IMAGE PROCESSNG APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus according to the present invention has: an apparatus main body whose external appearance is configured from an upper casing, a lower casing, and a link casing that vertically links the upper casing and the lower casing and that has a paper discharge opening for discharging paper on one side face; a paper discharge portion that is formed as a space between the upper casing and the lower casing and that is to store paper discharged from the paper discharge opening; and an operation panel portion that is disposed in a vertically tiltable manner on a front face of the upper casing. When viewing the apparatus main body from the front side, an open space that allows paper discharged to the paper discharge portion to be viewed is provided between the operation panel portion and the link casing. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20150069697 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS, SHEET STORAGE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A sheet stacking apparatus includes a sheet stacking unit having a stacking member, a contact member, a moving unit, and a regulating member. The contact member contacts an end portion of a sheet stacked on the stacking member. The moving unit moves the contact member from a standby position to a movement position to move the stacked sheet. The regulating member regulates, at a regulation position, a position of the stacked sheet from above, and moves from the regulation position by being pushed by the conveyed sheet. In a sheet width direction orthogonal to a direction in which the sheet is conveyed, the contact member and the regulating member are arranged at different positions, and in a thickness direction of the stacked sheet, an upper surface of the contact member located at the standby position is located above a lower surface of the regulating member located at the regulation position. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20160090261 | ARTICLE RECEIVING DEVICE - A receiving device that is connected to a sheet processing device to receive a sheet comprising: a receiving port that receives the sheet discharged from a discharge port of the sheet processing device: casters that support the receiving device on a floor; and a roller that rides up a support part provided with the sheet processing device at the time of connecting the receiving device and the sheet processing device to receive a part of the weight of the receiving device on the support part, wherein when the roller rides up the support part, a part of the casters floats up from the floor, and the receiving port is positioned to the discharge port. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160147189 | SHEET DISCHARGE TRAY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A support unit is provided at a downstream side of a tray surface tilted upward in a sheet discharge direction so as to be movable in the sheet discharge direction and a reverse direction of the sheet discharge direction. The support unit has a support plate that supports a discharge sheet from below. The support plate is tilted in a vertical direction by being supported at an upstream end of the support plate in as a fulcrum and is raised and downed with respect to the tray surface so as to change an angle. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160154358 | SHEET DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | 06-02-2016 |
| 20170235270 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | 08-17-2017 |
| 20180024490 | PAPER OUTPUT TRAY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | 01-25-2018 |
| 271214000 | Receding from delivery zone (e.g., retractor) | 14 |
| 20160378047 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a discharge rotary member pair discharging a sheet, a sheet supporting unit on which the sheet discharged is supported, the sheet supporting unit including a first support surface, and a second support surface provided downstream, in a sheet discharge direction, of the first support surface, an abutment surface against which an upstream end, in the sheet discharge direction, of the sheet, an elevation unit moving the sheet supporting unit up and down, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to executes a first discharge mode controlling the elevation unit such that the sheet supporting unit is positioned at a first position before the discharge rotary member pair starts discharging a first sheet, and a second discharge mode controlling the elevation unit such that the sheet supporting unit is positioned at a second position lower than the first position. | 12-29-2016 |
| 271215000 | Responsive to increase | 4 |
| 20090236797 | PAPER STACKING APPARATUS - A bottom surface of a stacking and accommodating portion is structured such as to be sloped to be lower in accordance with moving away from a paper carry-in side, and a push plate is controlled so as to be moved in a direction moving close to a carry-in port of the paper by detecting a stack paper width determined on the basis of a product of a stacked number count information of the papers and a thickness information per one paper, and the papers are accommodated. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20150054216 | MEDIUM DELIVERY APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An invented medium delivery apparatus includes: a delivery unit for delivering a conveyed medium; a medium stacking unit for stacking the medium delivered from the delivery unit; a detection unit disposed between the delivery unit and the medium stacking unit in a medium conveyance direction for detecting an amount of the medium delivered to the medium stacking unit; and a sensor for sensing a motion of the detection unit, wherein the detection unit has a detachable tip portion. The medium delivery apparatus can change the sheet number of media stacked on the medium stacking unit where the medium stacking unit is in a full status with the stacked media. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150145200 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A system is provided for shifting, according to an amount of stacked sheets that has been stacked in a sheet stacking device, a state of a power to be supplied to the sheet stacking device from a first power state to a second power state where power consumption is less than that in the second power state. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150145201 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A sheet stacking apparatus includes a lowering control unit, a determination unit, a notification unit, and a control unit. The lowering control unit lowers a discharge tray based on an amount of sheets discharged to the tray. The determination unit can determine that lowering of the discharge tray has been disabled before the discharge tray reaches a lower end position. The notification unit notifies removal of an object present below the discharge tray when it is determined that the lowering of the discharge tray has been disabled. The control unit executes control so as to raise the discharge tray in response to the determination that the lowering of the discharge tray has been disabled. | 05-28-2015 |
| 271216000 | Conveyor-receiver for imbricated sheets | 2 |
| 20100025925 | SCALING DEVICE | 02-04-2010 |
| 20140265107 | SHEET-LIKE MEDIUM STACKING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a sheet-like medium stacking apparatus provided for bearing and arranging sheet-like medium. The apparatus comprises: a bearing plate for receiving and bearing sheet-like medium delivered by the conveyance channel; a blocking mechanism facing an outlet at the end of the conveyance channel and used for preventing the sheet-like medium from continuing to move forward, the blocking mechanism comprising a storage part baffle plate in a lap joint with the bearing plate to form an accommodating chamber accommodating the sheet-like medium; and an arcuate section extending and curving towards the storage part baffle plate, is provided at the end of the bearing plate remote from the conveyance channel, the arcuate section overlapping the storage part baffle plate. The sheet-like medium stacking apparatus can effectively solve the problem of bills delivered at high speed becoming folded up or even blocking the outlet. | 09-18-2014 |
| 271217000 | Lowering as pack-height increases | 7 |
| 20090212486 | SECURITY CONTAINER FOR VALUE DOCUMENTS - A security container for storing documents of value in stack form is provided with a stacking pocket for receiving documents of value in a stacked form, a bottom element disposed in the stacking pocket on which rests a fed document of value or a stack of fed documents of values and an inlet opening leading into the stacking pocket which is disposed such that documents of value fed to the security container after having passed through the inlet opening in the stacking pocket fall onto the bottom element or at least a document of value carried by it, in particular a topmost document of value on a stack of documents of value carried by the bottom element. In transport direction in or behind the inlet opening there is disposed at least one closing element with at least one portion which is deflectable from a closing position, in which it prevents a motion of a document of value completely entered into the stacking pocket back into the inlet opening, into a passing position in which it guides the document of value at least partially such that the document of value can reach into the stacking pocket and in which onto the portion there acts a restoring force driving towards the closing position, and which is movable against the restoring force into the passing position by a document of value fed through the inlet opening with a speed within a predetermined range. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20110133394 | FEEDING DEVICE - A feeding device includes a tray for stacking sheet-like conveyance-target media, a first pressing unit, and a second pressing unit. The first and second pressing units face and apply a first and second pressing force, respectively, on a circumferential surface of a pick roller so that a first contact area and a second contact area overlap each other. The first pressing unit includes a first pressing unit separation roller, and the first contact area is defined wherein the first pressing unit and the pick roller make contact with each other. The second contact area is defined wherein the second pressing unit and the pick roller make contact with each other such that the first contact area and the second contact appear to partly overlap each other when viewed from an axial direction of the pick roller. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110215521 | SHEET FINISHING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a sheet finishing apparatus according to an embodiment that includes an external wall with a discharge port of sheets, a movable tray on which the sheets discharged from the discharge port are stacked and which moves up and down along the external wall according to the number of stacked sheets, and a lubricant supply unit which moves up and down together with the movable tray and applies a lubricant to the external wall. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20140239578 | SHEET DISCHARGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A sheet discharging device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a sheet discharging tray, a sheet discharging roller pair, a full state detection feeler pivotably supported and including a center feeler to measure a height of a center part of the recording medium and an edge feeler to measure a height of an edge part of the recording medium, and a full state detection sensor to detect a position of the full state detection feeler. A distance between a leading edge of the center feeler and an upper surface of the sheet discharging tray is smaller than a distance between a leading edge of the edge feeler and the upper surface thereof. The leading edge of the edge feeler is located closer to the upper surface of the sheet discharging tray than a common tangential line of the sheet discharging roller pair. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20150108713 | ACCOMMODATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An accommodating device includes an accommodating portion including a bottom portion and in which a member to be accommodated is accommodated, a stacking member disposed in the accommodating portion such that, while one end side of the stacking member serves as a fulcrum, the other end side thereof is able to move upward, and on which the member to be accommodated is stacked, a lifting/lowering mechanism that lifts the other end side and causes the stacking member to drop under its own weight by releasing a lifting force, and a buffer member that acts as a buffer between the stacking member and the bottom portion of the accommodating portion while being constantly in contact with a bottom surface of the stacking member and a top surface of the bottom portion of the accommodating portion within a movable range in which the lifting/lowering mechanism causes the stacking member to move. | 04-23-2015 |
| 271218000 | With auxiliary support for part of pile | 1 |
| 20080217843 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING A STACK OF SHEETS - A plasterboard wedge has an acute edge that is sufficiently thin to be inserted between the edges of consecutive plasterboard sheets arranged in a stack. The wedge is then pressed into the stack to form a gap on both lateral sides of the wedge into which the forks of a fork-lift can be inserted. The fork-lift can then lift the desired number of plasterboard sheets off the stack onto a vehicle. A tip of one of the fork-lift forks is used to press the wedge into the stack, and is located in a horizontal groove in the blunt face to prevent relative vertical slipping. | 09-11-2008 |
| 271219000 | Spring-loaded support | 1 |
| 20130099442 | MEDIUM ACCUMULATING DEVICE - A medium accumulating device has an accumulation table on which a medium is accumulated, an elastic member that supports the accumulation table, and an accumulation table detector that detects lowering of the accumulation table. It is sensed that the accumulation table inclined with respect to a lifting and lowering direction of the accumulation table lowers below a predetermined position to thereby determine whether or not a medium is accumulated on the accumulation table. This provides the medium accumulating device capable of determining whether or not a medium is accumulated whatever position the accumulation table may occupy. | 04-25-2013 |
