FOXLINK IMAGE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150291377 | PAPER PICKUP MECHANISM - A paper pickup mechanism is used with a pickup tape and includes a frame, a release roller, a receive roller and a sponge. The release roller and the receive roller are rotatably mounted in the frame and apart parallel to each other. The sponge is mounted at a bottom of the frame and parallel to the release roller and the receive roller. The sponge is located at a level position below that of the release roller and the receive roller. The pickup tape is mounted to the release roller. The free end of the pickup tape rounds the bottom face of the sponge and is mounted to the receive roller. The stick face of the pickup tape against the sponge is exposed outward and opposite to the sponge. | 10-15-2015 |
20150274453 | PICKUP MECHANISM - A pickup mechanism includes a mechanical frame, at least one pickup roller, a paper pressing board disposed above the mechanical frame, a transmitting element, a cover covered on the paper pressing board, at least one stopper element pivotally mounted to the paper pressing board, and at least one elastic element elastically disposed between the cover and the paper pressing board. The pickup roller is disposed under the mechanical frame. The paper pressing board has a bottom board. A top of the bottom board protrudes upward to form a movable portion. A front of the movable portion defines a driven link. The transmitting element is cooperated with the driven link of the paper pressing board to bring along the paper pressing board to be pressed downward and be raised up. The cover has a top wall. A bottom of the top wall protrudes downward to form a locking part. | 10-01-2015 |
20150156356 | IMAGE CORRECTION DEVICE AND IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD THEREOF - An image correction device includes an input tray, a pickup roller, a separation roller, a plurality of first and second feed rollers, a scanning area, a sensor unit, a control unit, a plurality of paper-out rollers and a paper-out tray. The control unit electrically connects with the sensor unit and controls rotating speeds of the first and second feed rollers. An image correction method of image correction device is described hereinafter. When the paper is going to pass through the scanning area, the sensor unit sends a first signal to the control unit, when the sensor unit detects a transmitting status or a transmitting speed of the paper to be changed, the sensor unit sends a second signal to the control unit for modulating rotating speeds of the first and second feed rollers and the transmitting speed of the paper until the paper is scanned completely. | 06-04-2015 |
20150109641 | SCANNED IMAGE CALIBRATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF FOR ADJUSTING A SCAN FREQUENCY - A device for calibrating scanned image includes a scanning unit arranged in a paper transmitting path for capturing texts and images on a document and transferring into electrical signals, a set of transmitting device which includes at least a first transmitting roller arranged upstream to the scanning unit, and a second transmitting roller arranged downstream to the scanning unit. There is no other transmitting roller arranged between the first and the second transmitting rollers, the distance between the first and the second transmitting rollers is shorter than the length of the document, and the second transmitting roller is faster than the first transmitting roller. A paper sensor is arranged in the paper transmitting path for detecting the position and the velocity of the document, and a control unit is connected with the paper sensor and the scanning unit to adjust the scan frequency in response to the position and the velocity of the document. | 04-23-2015 |
20140260739 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER - A transmission device for an automatic document feeder includes a driving gear set driven by a driving motor, a first swing arm equipped with a first driving roller set, a second swing arm equipped with a second driving roller set, and a one-way gear set driven by the driving gear set to keep transmitting rollers rotating in the same direction. The first swing arm is driven by the driving gear set and swingable between a first position and a second position to mesh the first driving roller set with a pickup device or an output device. The second swing arm is driven by the driving gear set and swingable between a third position and a fourth position to mesh the second driving roller set with the pickup device or the output device. When the first swing arm swings toward the first/second position, the second arm swings toward the fourth/third position. | 09-18-2014 |
20140249798 | TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND TRANSLATION METHOD THEREOF - A translation system is connected with at least two translation service providers through internet and includes an image capture unit, a data transmission unit, a comparing unit, and a display unit. A translation method is achieved by the foregoing translation system and includes the steps: capturing original data of original documents as an image data by means of the image capture unit; transmitting the image data to an image recognition unit and utilizing the image recognition unit to convert the image data into text data; transmitting the text data to the translation service providers for translation; utilizing the comparing unit to compare translation results and determine one of them as the best translation result according to the occurrence number of the same words in the compared translation results; and displaying the best translation result on a display unit. So the user can review the translation results quickly and easily. | 09-04-2014 |
20140118803 | SCANNING DEVICE - A scanning device includes a scanning platform, a feed roller mounted above the scanning platform and rotatable to bring a sheet-like medium across the scanning platform, first and second elastic elements located under two ends of the scanning platform to press the scanning platform against the feed roller. One end of the scanning device near to the first elastic element is defined as a datum end for guiding the mediums to enter the scanning device. The first elastic element acts a greater force on the scanning platform than the second elastic element, or the distance from the first elastic element to the datum end is smaller than that from the second elastic element to the other end of the scanning device and the force from the first elastic element is equal to that from the second elastic element, so as to make the medium levelly transmitted during being scanned. | 05-01-2014 |
20140110898 | FEEDING APPARATUS - A feeding apparatus includes a pickup roller arranged to pick and feed a medium downstream along a conveying path, a separating roller arranged downstream to the pickup roller for advancing the medium downstream, a brake roller arranged opposite to the separating roller, and a pressing structure arranged opposite to the pickup roller and operable to swing toward or away from the pickup roller according to the rotating direction of the brake roller. When the brake roller rotates for feeding mediums downstream, the pressing structure moves toward the pickup roller and applies a normal force required for picking the medium. But when the brake roller stops rotating downstream because multiple mediums are fed between the brake roller and the separating roller, the pressing structure moves away from the pickup roller and stops applying normal force, so as to control the medium-picking process. | 04-24-2014 |
20130119601 | PICKUP MECHANISM - A pickup mechanism includes a main frame, a supporting element mounted to the main frame, and a pickup module positioned in the main frame and including a pickup arm, a transmitting element, a separation element, a pickup element and a barrel element. The separation element includes a separation shaft and a separation roller. The pickup element includes a pickup shaft and a pickup roller. The separation roller and the pickup roller are restricted in the pickup arm. The transmitting element links the separation shaft and the pickup shaft. The pickup arm is pivoted at the separation shaft. The barrel element has a base portion pivotally mounted around the pickup shaft, and a stopping block. When the pickup module swings upward or downward, the barrel element is driven to rotate along with the pickup shaft to make the stopping block against the supporting element or apart from the supporting element. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119600 | PAPER FEEDING MECHANISM - A paper feeding mechanism includes a frame, a pickup assembly, at least one stopper element and one resisting element. The pickup assembly mounted in the frame includes a pickup bracket, a separation element and a pickup element. The stopper element is pivotably mounted between the pickup element and the separation element, and includes a blocking portion and a stopper portion. The resisting element is pivotably mounted between the stopper element and the separation element, and includes a resisting portion and a raising portion. The pickup element wiggles upward or downward under a drive of a gear to make the resisting element wiggle upward or downward with the resisting portion resisting against the stopper portion or being away from the stopper portion to make the blocking portion block papers entering the paper feeding mechanism, or loose the blocking portion freely to let the papers enter the paper feeding mechanism. | 05-16-2013 |
20120256366 | PAPER FEEDING MECHANISM - A paper feeding mechanism mounted to a shell includes a pickup mechanism, a transporting mechanism, a separation mechanism and a one-way clutch mechanism. The pickup mechanism includes a pickup motor having a rotating roller, a pickup roller and a pickup wheel. The transporting mechanism includes a transporting motor, a transporting roller, a transporting wheel and a transporting gear. The separation mechanism includes a separation roller, a separation gear and a separation wheel. The one-way clutch mechanism includes a one-way axle, a wiggling arm, a restoration elastic element fastened between the wiggling arm and the shell, and a releasing gear. The one-way axle passes through one end of the wiggling arm. The rotating roller of the pickup motor passes through the one-way axle. The releasing gear mounted to the other end of the wiggling arm is engaged with the transporting gear and the separation gear. | 10-11-2012 |
20120236376 | SCANNING APPARATUS - A scanning apparatus capable of switching a scanning background includes a pair of glass plates, a pair of background boards pivoted to the glass plates and a driving mechanism. The glass plates are disposed in a frame and overlapped with each other. The two glass plates define two scanning areas face to face. A portion of the frame adjacent to an outer surface of the glass plate defines a first color area of the scanning background corresponding to the scanning area. One background board is positioned above one glass plate, and the other background board is positioned under the other glass plate and away from the one background board. Each background board defines a second color area of the scanning background corresponding to the scanning area. The driving mechanism mounted in the frame drives the background boards to turn over with respect to the corresponding glass plates. | 09-20-2012 |
20120056368 | DOCUMENT FEEDING MECHANISM - A document feeding mechanism includes a frame, a document picking means positioned in the frame for picking up and conveying a document, a stopper means positioned in the frame for blocking the conveyance of the document, a supporting portion cooperating with the stopper means for supporting the document picking up means while the document picking up means is raised at a predetermined level, and a blocking portion restricting a rotatable angle of the stopper means for blocking the conveyance of the document while the document picking up means is raised at the predetermined level. The document feeding means is kept at the predetermined level via the cooperation of the supporting portion and the stopper means for supporting the document feeding means. Since, the document feeding mechanism has high reliability to resist shake and crash for preventing the document picking up means from being drooped. | 03-08-2012 |
20120026561 | Document Guiding Mechanism - A document guiding mechanism includes a document supporting tray, a gearwheel coupled to the document supporting tray, a right guiding unit, a left guiding unit and a single-way latch means. The right guiding unit includes a right guiding wall positioned on the document supporting tray and a right linear gear extended from the right guiding wall and engaged with the gearwheel. The left guiding unit includes a left guiding wall positioned on the document supporting tray and opposite to and parallel to the right guiding wall, and a left linear gear extended from the left guiding wall and engaged with the gearwheel. The single-way latch means interconnects the document supporting tray and at least one of the right guiding unit and the left guiding unit. The right guiding wall and the left guiding wall can be kept at a suitable position by the single-way latch means. | 02-02-2012 |
20120025444 | Document Feeding Mechanism - A document feeding mechanism includes a driving shaft, a document blocking means, a tray, an elastic means and an actuating means. The tray is pushed up to connect the document blocking means by the elastic means. The actuating means is coupled to the driving shaft and abutted against the tray for pushing down the tray to separate from the document blocking means. The actuating means will be driven to allow the tray to be pushed to swing up by the elastic means for blocking documents. The actuating means will be driven to abut against the tray for pushing the tray to swing down for separating the tray from the document blocking means for conveying the documents. Therefore, the document feeding mechanism has high reliability for blocking the documents. | 02-02-2012 |
20110241280 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet-table unit, a sheet-separating unit, a convey unit, a discharge unit, a sheet processing unit, and a sensor arranged at an upstream end of the convey unit and spaced from the discharge unit with a predetermined distance. The convey unit has at least one convey roller, at least one convey pulley, and an elastic device connected with the convey pulley. The elastic device has a stepping motor, a transmission system, a shaft and at least one torsional spring mounted on the shaft. Two ends of the torsional spring is connected with the convey pulley. When the signal resulted from a rear end of the sheet apart from the sensor is sent to the system controller, the stepping motor is commanded by the system controller to rotate the shaft. The torsional spring is twisted to make the convey pulley move away from but still contact with the convey roller. | 10-06-2011 |
20110187041 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet-table unit, a sheet-separating unit, a convey unit, a discharge unit, a sheet processing unit, and a sensor arranged at an upstream end of the convey unit and spaced from the discharge unit with a predetermined distance. The convey unit has a convey roller, a convey pulley, and an elastic device connected with the convey pulley. The elastic device has a cylinder, a fixing shaft fixed to the cylinder, and a spring having two free ends fixed to the fixing shaft and a portion of the convey pulley opposite to the convey roller. When the signal resulted from a rear end of the sheet apart from the sensor is sent to the system controller, the cylinder is commanded by the system controller to draw back the fixing shaft. The spring is elongated to make the convey pulley away from the convey roller. | 08-04-2011 |
20110065540 | BELT DRIVE MECHANISM WITH BELT TENSIONER - A belt drive mechanism with belt tensioner has a driving pulley pivoted to a fixing frame, a driven pulley pivoted to the fixing frame, with a belt wrapping thereon, and a tensioner which has a wheel pivoted to a mounting block of the fixing frame and rests against the running belt, and a cap rotatably covered to a top of the wheel. The cap has a through hole engaged with the mounting block and is capable of moving along a direction substantially perpendicular to a running direction of the belt at a contact position with the wheel. An elastic element is mounted between the mounting block and an inner side of the through hole and compressed by the moved cap to store an elastic force which releases to bring the wheel to press the running belt away from the mounting block for compensating a tensile force of the running belt. | 03-17-2011 |
20100140866 | MECHANISM AND METHOD OF MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS FEEDING DETECTION - The present invention provides a multiple documents feeding detection mechanism includes an advancing roller applying a driving torque, a retarding roller applying a resisting torque and connected to the advancing roller for transporting pieces of documents, and a detecting means. The friction of a surface of the advancing roller, the friction of a surface of the retarding roller, the driving torque and the resisting torque are tuned to urge the retarding roller either into rotation while one signal document fed into a nip between the advancing roller and the retarding roller, or in standstill while multiple document fed into the nip. The detecting means determines whether the multiple documents feeding is caused by monitoring an action of the retarding roller. | 06-10-2010 |
20090284811 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - An optical scanning device with a dustproof function includes a shell defining a first receiving room and a second receiving room communicating with the first receiving room through an open window defined on the shell for scanning light beams passing therethrough. An optical scanning module is mounted in the first receiving room. A glass platform is located on the second receiving room at a position facing the open window for insulating the first receiving room from the outside of the shell. A correcting plate is stuck on the bottom of the glass platform. Such structure of the optical scanning device enables the glass platform to be firstly assembled with the shell in a dustless chamber, which prevents the suspending dust from falling in the first receiving room and attaching to the optical scanning module during the subsequent assembly process and ensures the scanning quality of the optical scanning device. | 11-19-2009 |
20090256883 | MAINTENANCE STATION OF AN INKJET PRINTER - A maintenance station of an inkjet printer mounted in a housing of the inkjet printer includes an ink cup rotationally and slidably coupled to the housing about/along an axis of rotation. The ink cup has a basic plate and a columnar rim around the basic plate. The columnar rim respectively defines a plurality of stopping ratchets and driving ratchets with the same gradient direction at a bottom and top thereof. A moving body is slidably disposed in the housing of the inkjet printer. An actuator movably disposed in the moving body moves together with the moving body, a tail of the actuator stretches out from the moving body for matching with the driving ratchets to rotate the ink cup. A plurality of housing ratchets are disposed in the housing of the inkjet printer and arranged into a ring for matching with the stopping ratchets to prevent the ink cup reversion. | 10-15-2009 |
20090256307 | SHEET SEPARATING MECHANISM OF AN AUTO SHEET FEEDER AND AUTO SHEET FEEDER INCORPORATING THE SAME - An auto sheet feeder used for a device comprises an upper frame, a pick roller and a sheet separating mechanism secured on the upper frame. The sheet separating mechanism includes a bracket and a pair of arms disposed on the bracket and spring-biased toward the pick roller. A separator pad is disposed on the bracket and spring-biased toward the pick roller. A press plate is positioned on the bracket and presses against the separator pad. A torsion spring mounted above the press plate has at least two coil portions. Two adjacent ends of the coil portions extend toward the same side and then joint each other to form a contact portion which always props the upper frame. Two ends of the torsion spring have a retaining arm respectively. The two retaining arms are opposite each other and pivotally engage to two sides of the press plate respectively. The torsion spring is compressed by the press plate when the sheets push the separator pad and pushes the press plate and the separator pad to be reposition after the lowermost one of the sheets is separated. | 10-15-2009 |
20090256306 | PAPER FEEDING DEVICE - A paper feeding device includes a pick roller, a spring element and a separator pad. The pick roller has a roller surface. The spring element is disposed above the pick roller. The spring element has two spring arms extending toward two ends of the pick roller. Free ends of the two spring arms extend to positions outside the two ends of the pick roller and below the roller surface so as to be contactless with the roller surface and are pushed forward and upward by papers and then transfer a press force to the pick roller. A separator pad is arranged in front of the spring element and contacts with the roller surface of the pick roller for cooperating with the pick roller to separate a lowermost one of the papers. Because the spring arms are contactless with the pick roller directly, so the spring arms do not rub the pick roller, which avoids the pick roller being abraded. | 10-15-2009 |
20090185395 | BACK-LIGHT MODULE - A back-light module includes a light-guiding plate and a light source. The light-guiding plate has a lateral inlet surface. The light source is arranged at one side of the lateral inlet surface. The light source has a plurality of light-emitting diodes which are disposed in a line and at interval. A gap is formed between the adjacent light-emitting diodes. The lateral inlet surface dispose a plurality of convex lenses, each of the convex lenses has a convex surface facing to the corresponding gap between the adjacent light-emitting diodes. | 07-23-2009 |
20090185238 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - An optical scanning device with a dustproof function includes a shell defining a first receiving room and a second receiving room communicating with the first receiving room through an open window defined on the shell for scanning light beams passing therethrough. An optical scanning module is mounted in the first receiving room. A glass platform is located on the second receiving room at a position facing the open window for insulating the first receiving room from the outside of the shell. A correcting plate is stuck on the bottom of the glass platform. Such structure of the optical scanning device enables the glass platform to be firstly assembled with the shell in a dustless chamber, which prevents the suspending dust from falling in the first receiving room and attaching to the optical scanning module during the subsequent assembly process and ensures the scanning quality of the optical scanning device. | 07-23-2009 |
20090136147 | METHOD FOR COMPRESSING IMAGE DATA - A method for compressing image data is used to process image data. The method includes the following steps as sampling pixels expressing an image, transforming the sampling data into transformed data by forward discrete cosine transformation, quantifying the transformed data according to a quantification table into quantified data, encoding the quantified data according to Huffman table, and generating a frame data. When the frame data is processed along the reverse pipeline, the frame data is decompressed to the image data. | 05-28-2009 |
20090116856 | SHEET-HANDLING APPARATUS WITH A DETECTING DEVICE - A sheet-handling apparatus with a detecting device includes a casing, a plurality of entrance rollers located in the casing, an image collector arranged at one side of the casing, a plurality of middle reflectors and side reflectors. A paper path is formed between the entrance rollers, the paper path includes a middle path and two side paths arranged in the sides of the middle path. The image collector includes an illuminant and an image sensor. The middle reflectors are fixed in the casing and at the other side of the paper path and face to the middle path. The side reflectors are arranged at the side of the middle reflectors. The invention can monitor a paper when it is stuck in the paper path, and the manufacture cost of the invention is reduced. | 05-07-2009 |
20090115128 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER - An automatic document feeder includes a main body defining a passage for transporting a document. A feeding roller unit includes a feeding driving roller and a feeding idle roller coupling with the feeding driving roller. The feeding driving roller and the feeding idle roller are disposed at opposite sides of the passage. A drawing-out roller unit includes a drawing-out driving roller and a drawing-out idle roller coupling with the drawing-out driving roller. The drawing-out driving roller and the drawing-out idle roller are disposed at opposite sides of the passage. The drawing-out driving roller and the feeding driving roller are at the same side of the passage. And a belt is put around the feeding driving roller and the drawing-out driving roller to mate with the feeding idle roller and the drawing-out idle roller respectively for flatting and conveying the document into and out of the automatic document feeder. | 05-07-2009 |
20090115126 | Feed Detecting System - A feed detecting system includes a sending element, a receiving element, a filtering-amplifying circuit, a peak-holding circuit, an A/D converter and a processing unit. The receiving element receives an ultrasonic signal sent by the sending element, and then outputs an electric signal, the filtering-amplifying circuit receives, filters and amplifies the electric signal, the A/D converter converts the electric signal to a digital signal, the processing unit reads the digital signal and compares the digital signal with a standard value stored in the processing unit. In this present invention, the A/D converter can be a low frequency A/D converter, so the cost of the feed detecting system is reduced. | 05-07-2009 |
20090091076 | AUTO DOCUMENT FEEDER - An auto document feeder cooperated with an image processing machine defines a feeding path and has a base, a frame and a sensor device. The base has a background under the feeding path. The frame is mounted on the base. The sensor couples with the frame and has a sensor arm. The sensor arm has an optical sensor located in the feeding path and faced to the background of the base. The sensor device recognizes a sheet is present in the feeding path or not by that the optical sensor recognizes the energy of the light reflected from the background and the sheet. The sensor device also recognizes characteristic of the sheet by that the optical sensor recognizes the energy of the light reflected from the sheet. Therefore, the image processing machine executes different processes for the sheet according to the characteristic of the sheet. | 04-09-2009 |
20090059320 | Magnification Controlling System Used In An Image Forming Apparatus - A magnification controlling system used in an image forming apparatus has a sensor module for reading a first image and a second image form a document conveyed in a predetermined speed. The first and second images are converted into a base and a reference image by an A/D converter. A processor calculates the shifting offset between the base image and the reference image to produce a reference speed. The processor calculates the predetermined and reference speed to produce a control signal and then sends the control signal to a pulse producing circuit. The pulse producing circuit provides plurality of pulse signals in a predetermined time according to the control signal. The pulse producing circuit sends the pulse signals to a step motor or an image forming module in the image forming apparatus for controlling document conveying speed of the step motor or scanning speed of the image forming module. | 03-05-2009 |
20090040265 | INK STORING BOX - An ink-storing box includes a container, a cover covering on the container and a lock gate. The cover defines at least one communicating hole therein. The lock gate includes a base board movable arranged between the cover and the container and a drive portion located on the base board, the base board defining a cooperation hole therein. The lock gate is set between the cover and the container for allowing the hole of the cover communicating with the interior of the container or shielding the interior of the container from being exposed through the hole of the cover. Thereby the ink-storing box of the present invention can receive the ink jetted from the ink box and prevent the evaporation of the ink. | 02-12-2009 |
20080246210 | PAPER FEEDING DEVICE - A paper feeding device comprises an upper frame, a pickup roller assembly connected to the upper frame and a lower frame. The pickup roller assembly includes a roller frame, a separating roller, a pickup roller, and a belt sleeved on both the separating roller and the pickup roller. The separating roller and the pickup roller are connected to the roller frame. The belt impels the separating roller and the pickup roller to press against the roller frame. When the separating roller rotates, the friction created between the separating roller and the roller frame and the friction created between the pickup roller and the roller frame drives the pickup roller assembly to rotate, then the paper is fed into the paper feeding device. The structure of the paper feeding device is simple and the cost is lower than the conventional one, moreover, it is convenient to assemble. | 10-09-2008 |
20080197560 | Paper Feeding Device - A paper feeding device comprises a cover, a roller frame and at least one paper blocking unit. The roller frame has two side walls. The paper blocking unit is placed beside the side wall, having a projection mounted on the side wall of the roller frame and a paper blocking element including a connecting portion, the connecting portion has a positioning pillar rotatablely connected to the cover. The connecting portion extends downwards to form a stopping portion, the stopping portion further extends downwards to form a paper blocking arm, the lower portion of the paper blocking arm defines an opening communicating one side of the paper blocking arm near the side wall. The projection can stops at the stopping portion and passes through the opening of the paper blocking element to allow the document to be fed in, so the cooperation is easy, the paper feeding device works smoothly. | 08-21-2008 |