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| 20090218749 | Document Feeding Device - A document feeding device comprises a document input tray, a document output tray placed above the document input tray, and a feeding mechanism provided for a feeding path (connecting the document input tray and the document output tray via a scanning position) to feed each document along the feeding path. The document output tray includes a reference tray and a pivoting tray (on the downstream side of the reference tray) pivotable with respect to the reference tray around a pivot shaft on the upstream side of the pivoting tray. The pivoting of the pivoting tray is restricted at a retracted position by a pivot restricting part when the pivoting tray has pivoted from a document stacking position to the retracted position. The pivot shaft is situated above an upstream end of a stacking surface of the pivoting tray when the pivoting tray is placed at the document stacking position. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090206539 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a cassette having a stacking region for stacking recording materials mounted to main assembly of the recording apparatus; a feeder for feeding the recording material stacked to the cassette; a sheet discharge portion for sheet discharging the recording material having been subjected to a recording operation; a tray movable between a first position where the recording material is incapable of being discharged from the sheet discharge portion and a second position where the recording material is capable of being discharged from a main assembly of the recording apparatus; a holding portion, disposed on the tray, for holding the recording material discharged when the tray is at the second position; an auxiliary portion disposed on the tray and capable of stacking the recording material with the stacking region when the tray is at the second position. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090194929 | Medium Delivery Apparatus and Medium Processing Apparatus - A medium delivery apparatus, includes: a medium insertion portion; a medium delivery port; first and second medium guide surfaces; a feed roller; a first pressing member; a second pressing member; a rotating member; an urging member, configured to give an urging force acting in a first rotation direction to the rotating member to rotate the second pressing member toward the protruding position; an elastic member, configured to cause the second pressing member and the rotating member to abut against each other; and a stationary abutting portion, against which the rotating member abuts when the first pressing member is placed in the vicinity of the waiting position. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20130032989 | Sheet Stackable Devices - A sheet stackable device includes a sheet stackable plane. The sheet stackable device includes a first tray and a second tray, each of which is formed in a shape of a flat plate. The first tray includes a first contact part. The second tray is slidable along a slidable direction between a first position, in which the second tray overlaps the first tray, and a second position, in which the second tray is dawn out of the first tray. The second tray includes a second contact part, which is slidable on the first contact part. At least one of the first contact part and the second contact part includes a rack with rack teeth, which are aligned along the slidable direction. An upper plane of the first tray and an upper plane of the second tray in the second position form at least a part of the stackable plane. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20100072689 | MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR A MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE, AND A CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A media processing device, a control method for a media processing device, and a control program for the same can accurately detect the last one or specified number of media stored in the media stacker. Media stackers store media in a stack. Media processing units write data and/or print a label on the media. A media transportation mechanism has a transportation arm that can hold the media and move vertically, and transports the media between the media stackers and the media processing units by movement of the transportation arm. A control unit controls the media processing units and the media transportation mechanism | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100044946 | ROLL FEEDER - The object of the invention is to provide a roll feeder capable of reliably producing sheets obtained by cutting a web, as a pack of sheets arranged in a partially overlapping fashion with a quantity of overlap margin of the sheet suitable for use with a printing press and capable of easily controlling the quantity of overlap margin. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20090160118 | ITEM TRANSPORT WITH SINGULATION DETECTION - A method of transporting items includes receiving a group of one or more items in a singulation device, implementing a singulation routine, measuring a speed of a first portion of the group, measuring a speed of a second portion of the group, and comparing the speed of the first portion with the speed of the second portion. The method may further include continuing the singulation routine where the speed of the first portion is not equal to the speed of the second portion, and terminating the singulation routine where the speed of the first portion is equal to the speed of the second portion. The method may also include transporting a lead item away from the singulation device. The singulation device may include opposing transport elements. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090160117 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Printing processing is performed on a sheet having a characteristic value within a range of a characteristic value of a sheet which is defined usable in the printing processing in accordance with a specific print job. Specifically, in a case where a test page print job is input, a CPU selects a sheet feeding tray on which sheets having a characteristic value within a range of a characteristic value represented by characteristic value range information. The CPU performs a control operation so that a sheet is fed from the selected sheet feeding tray to a printer unit and the printer unit executes the test page print job. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20100109226 | AUTO DOCUMENT FEEDING DEVICE - An auto document feeding device causes an original document passing through an OUT path and an original document passing through an IN path to flow together with overlap a trailing edge of a preceding original document and a leading edge of a following original document. Before the original documents reach to a READ document glass, the auto document feeding device comprises a separating unit configured to separate an overlapping portion of the original documents. The auto document feeding device reduces a distance between the preceding original document and the following original document passing on the READ document glass to nearly 0 mm. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20130043638 | Image Forming Device - An image forming device, comprising: a main body; an image formation unit; and a re-carrying path along which a sheet-like medium on which the image has been formed is carried again to the image formation unit. In this configuration, the re-carrying path comprises: a first path formed to extend downward; a bending part formed to bend from a lower end of the first path toward an upstream side of the image formation unit; and a second path formed to extend from the bending part toward the upstream side of the image formation unit. A pair of re-carrying rollers which carry the sheet-like medium are provided on the second path. A recessed part formed to be recessed downward with respect to a common tangential line of the pair of re-carrying rollers is provided on the second path between the bending part and the pair of re-carrying rollers. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130043639 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING SHEET - The present invention provide a printing apparatus and a method for conveying a sheet wherein generation of noise is minimized using a simple configuration, wherein, during sheet discharging, a sheet is discharged at a speed suitable for the sheet discharging, and wherein the sheet is aligned at a sheet discharging position. The printing apparatus controls conveyance of sheets as follows. A first sheet and a second sheet fed subsequently to the first sheet are conveyed at a relatively low conveying speed until an upstream trailing end of the first sheet is placed at a sheet discharging standby position. Then, the first sheet is discharged to the sheet discharging position, and the first sheet and the second sheet are conveyed at a relatively low conveying speed until a downstream leading end of the second sheet is placed at a sheet feeding control position. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130082433 | Image Forming Device - An image forming device, comprising: a device main body; a sheet cassette detachably attachable to a cassette accommodation space; an image formation unit; a re-carrying unit configured to re-carry the reversed sheet-like medium to the image formation unit and is exposed to the cassette accommodation space when the sheet cassette is detached; and a driving source supplying a driving force to the re-carrying unit, and wherein: the re-carrying unit comprises a driving roller and a pinch roller; a drive coupling mechanism having a transmission path transmitting the driving force to the driving roller is provided; the drive coupling mechanism comprises an acting part that brings the transmission path to a coupled state by moving in accordance with an attaching motion of the sheet cassette and brings the transmission path to a cut off state by moving in accordance with a detaching motion of the sheet cassette. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130049281 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image recording device including a recording unit that records an image on a paper sheet conveyed in a conveying direction along a conveyance path, a paper feed tray that feeds the paper sheet to the conveyance path, a stopper unit that holds the paper sheet to stop the conveyance of the paper sheet, a notifying unit that issues a notification requesting removal of the paper sheet held by the stopper unit, and a control unit that controls at least one of the notifying unit to issue the notification requesting the removal of the paper sheet and the stopper unit to release the paper sheet to allow the conveyance of the paper sheet, based on where an instruction for recording an image on another paper sheet is originated, when the paper sheet is held by the stopper unit. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20090322010 | Document Feeding Device - A document feeding device includes a document placing tray, a document ejection tray disposed above the document placing tray, a feeding path, a first reversal path, a second reversal path, and a reversing mechanism. The document ejection tray has a flap portion capable of rocking up and down to provide a first ejection mode and a second ejection mode. The reversing mechanism is configured to temporarily eject part of a document to the document ejection tray. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090267285 | MEDIA PATH CROSSOVER CLEARANCE FOR PRINTING SYSTEM - A media path crossover for a printing system includes a first crossover pathway on which sheets of print media are conveyed across a crossover junction without interruption and a second crossover pathway on which sheets of print media are conveyed across the crossover junction without interruption. The second crossover pathway intersects the first crossover pathway at a crossover junction. The first crossover pathway comprises a first input path and a first output path and the second crossover pathway comprises a second input path and a second output path. At least the first input path includes a first access panel, whereby a sheet can be cleared therefrom while continuing conveyance of media along the second crossover pathway. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090267283 | MANUAL FEED TRAYS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A manual feed tray including a cover member pivotally supported at a lower end and assuming a storage position and a sheet feeding position; a sheet feeding platform situated at the lower end side of the cover member in the sheet feeding position, and mounted to the cover member so as to be capable of sliding toward the upper end side of the cover member and so as to leave a gap between the sheet feeding platform and itself; and an extension member assuming a storage position in which the extension member is stored in the gap between the sheet feeding table and the cover member and a pulled-out position. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090236789 | SYSTEM FOR ALIGNING A SHEET FOR SIMULTANEOUS MODIFICATION OF A PLURALITY OF AREAS - A system and method are described for aligning a sheet for simultaneous modification of a plurality of areas of the sheet. The sheet may be received by an alignment device from a feeder. The alignment device may angularly align the sheet, which may cause the sheet to become flush to the alignment device. The alignment device may adjust the sheet to correct for an offset alignment which may cause the sheet to be aligned with the direction of travel of the sheet. The alignment device may also align the sheet with a plurality of print heads. A conveyor may then pass the sheet beneath the plurality of print heads. The plurality of print heads may simultaneously modify the plurality of areas of the sheet. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090014941 | SHEET FINISHING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A sheet finishing apparatus includes an inlet roller to receive a sheet conveyed from an image forming apparatus, a sheet introduction unit to guide the sheet received by the inlet roller to a finishing unit, a sheet ejection unit to guide the sheet performed to a post process by the finishing unit to an ejection port and to eject from the ejection port, a paper storage tray to receive the ejected sheet, a drive unit including a plurality of motors to drive respective devices, and a control unit to control operations of the plurality of motors. In a trial operation of the sheet finishing apparatus, the control unit controls the plurality of motors, and first drives a motor with a sound pressure level less than a previously set reference level. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20100032883 | Kiosk-Installable Printer with Duplex Path Utilized to Deliver Printed Media Sheets to Lower Front Exterior of Printer - An image forming device includes an image formation path extending from an entrance end adjacent to a source of supply of media sheets, past an image forming station, to an exit end adjacent to a top collection site adapted to receive media sheets, a duplex path extending from an inlet end adjacent the top collection site to an outlet end adjacent a lower front opening in the device, a media sheet directing mechanism disposed between the exit end of the image formation path, top collection site and inlet end of the duplex path and selectively operable to deliver printed media sheets to the top collection site or the inlet end of the duplex path, and a deflector mechanism between the lower front opening and the outlet end of the duplex path and operable to divert printed media sheets from the duplex path through the lower front opening to exterior of the device. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20120187618 | INERTIAL FLATTENING APPARATUS FOR NOTE PROCESSING - According to an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus for guiding a document includes a curved document guide having a receiving end and an outgoing end. The receiving end is adapted to receive a moving document. The curved document guide is to guide the document along a curved path such that the document experiences a centrifugal force causing the document to substantially flatten against a concave surface of the curved document guide as the document moves toward the outgoing end of the curved document guide. At least a portion of the curved document guide has a radius of curvature. The curved document guide further includes an apex of the curvature at which one or more instruments are approximately directed. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20090189328 | Document feeder - A document feeder includes a reverse transporting mechanism that forms a substantially U-shaped document transporting pathway for carrying a document from a feeding tray located at a lower side to a discharging tray located at an upper side through a reading position, a pulling device, a separating-transporting device and a openable pathway cover. The pulling device and the separating-transporting device are arranged at substantially the same horizontal level within the height that is occupied by the reverse transporting mechanism. The pathway cover is capable of opening and closing to cover on the pulling device, the separating-transporting device and the reverse transporting mechanism. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20120267843 | RECORDING MEDIUM OVERTURNING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a recording medium turnover device and a recording medium processing apparatus using the same. The recording medium turnover device comprises: a passage assembly, configured to form a first passage ( | 10-25-2012 |
| 20090184455 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a reading mechanism having an original placement portion on which an original document is placed for reading an image; a recording mechanism having a medium supply tray on which a recording medium is set, the recording mechanism being disposed in such a manner that a longitudinal direction of the medium supply tray is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the original placement portion; an angular casing that houses the reading mechanism and the recording mechanism while stacking the reading mechanism and the recording mechanism vertically; and a cartridge holder that houses an ink cartridge and is disposed in a space located at a corner position of the casing below the reading mechanism and surrounded by a circumferential wall of the casing and a side wall of the medium supply tray. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090166947 | PAPER SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A paper sheet processing apparatus has a take-in device which takes in notes set in a setting unit, a judgment device which judges the quality and condition of a note taken in by the take-in device, a stacking box which stacks the note judged the quality and condition by the judgment device, a backup which is provided movably up and down in the stacking box and stacks notes, and a control device which variably controls the position of the backup based on the result of judgment by the judgment device. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090166948 | PAPER SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A paper sheet processing apparatus has a take-in device which takes in notes set in a setting unit, a judgment device which judges the quality and condition of a note taken in by the take-in device, a stacking box which stacks the note judged the quality and condition by the judgment device, a backup which is provided movably up and down in the stacking box and stacks notes, and a control device which variably controls the position of the backup based on the result of judgment by the judgment device. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20100213659 | MEDIA FEEDING DEVICE AND MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE - An open/close mechanism of a media feed path for feeding a sheet medium from a media insertion unit can be rendered with a small parts count without requiring a large installation space. An open/close lever | 08-26-2010 |
| 20090152790 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERSONALIZING A MULTIPLICITY OF SECURITY DOCUMENTS - The invention relates to a method for personalizing a large number of security documents, documents of value or smart cards within a personalization installation which comprises a plurality of processing stations arranged one behind the other along a longitudinal axis of the personalization installation for carrying out individual personalization steps, wherein in order to carry out the personalisation steps the documents or smart cards run through one processing station in a first direction running transversely to the longitudinal axis and the other processing station in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction and likewise runs transversely to the longitudinal axis, wherein all the processing stations are oriented with their run-through directions transverse to the longitudinal axis. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090096151 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER - An automatic document feeder of the present invention is provided with a turning/discharging path in a reversing path in order to read images on both sides of documents in lengths less than the main size and discharge in a discharging tray. Further, an aligning wall is provided to bump ends of documents discharged from the turning/discharging path against it. Thus, the documents of which both sides are read are discharged in the sequentially collated state at a high-speed and the aligned state. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090146362 | TRANSPORTATION DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A transportation device including first and second tray portions which are stacked relative to each other, first and second transportation openings included in the first and second tray portions, respectively, and a transportation path for a material which is formed between the first and second transportation openings. The first tray portion includes a first movable tray portion which can be displaced, the second tray portion includes a second movable tray portion which can be displaced. The first movable tray portion and the second movable tray portion are configured move between a tray position where the first and second movable tray portions form a tray member for transporting the material and a housing position where the tray portions form a housing configuring member by closing the first and second transportation openings which are exposed in the tray position. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090309288 | RECORDING MEDIUM CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording medium conveying device including a body portion capable of being mounted to and removed from a body of an apparatus, the body portion being provided with a conveying roller; a knob member disposed at a side at which the body portion is removed, the knob member allowing manual rotation of the conveying roller; and a handle member for mounting the body portion to and removing the body portion from the body of the apparatus. The handle member is rotatably supported so as to move between a first position and a second position, The knob member is connected to a rotating shaft of the conveying roller so as to move along a direction in which the body portion is removed. The handle member moves between the first position and the second position in response to an accommodation operation and a draw-out operation of the knob member. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100078869 | PRINTER - In the state that a preceding sheet awaits at an awaiting position, a pair of conveying rollers are separated from each other, and the front end of a subsequent sheet sent out from a main conveying path passes the gap between the pair of conveying rollers. Based on a configuration that the distance from the trailing end of the subsequent sheet in the conveying direction to the pair of conveying rollers becomes equal to that from the front end of the preceding sheet to the pair of conveying rollers, the preceding sheet and subsequent sheet are sandwiched by the pair of conveying rollers so as to be conveyed in a first direction, thereby making the sheets into a state that the sheets are put on each other. Thereafter, the sheets are conveyed in a second direction by the pair of conveying rollers, so as to be discharged into discharging unit. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20090273133 | Roller - An apparatus and method support rollers with a shaft along an axis absent of deflection of the shaft. Under load, the shaft deflects and the rollers reorient themselves along the shaft such that outer circumferential surfaces of the rollers are substantially parallel to the undeflected axis. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090273134 | Automatic original conveying device and image forming apparatus - In an automatic original conveying device, a motor rotates in a single direction and a driving force transmission mechanism transmits the driving force of the motor from a sheet feeding roller to a switchback roller. The sheet feeding roller conveys an original that stands by in a switchback conveying path to a second conveying path. A sorting unit sorts the original conveyed from a paper delivery path to an original delivery table or to the switchback conveying path. The switchback roller is provided between the sorting unit and the switchback conveying path and it is rotatable in a normal direction or a reverse direction. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090278301 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus is capable of reliably correcting skew feeding of a recording sheet in an arrangement for conveying the recording sheet absorbed by a belt surface. The recording apparatus includes: a driving roller for driving the conveying belt wound around the driving roller and electrically charging the conveying belt by application of a voltage; and a pinching roller abutting against the driving roller via the conveying belt. A pinching section, which is formed by the driving roller and the pinching roller, corrects skew feeding of the recording sheet fed from the paper feed section and thereafter the voltage is applied to the driving roller to electrically charge the conveying belt. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090283954 | SHEET ALIGNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - In a sheet aligning apparatus, a sheet is conveyed from a conveying-in path into a sheet storing section through an open end portion and the leading end of the sheet comes in with a stop member. Thereafter, when a shifting section shifts the stop member from an initial position to a first position, the sheet is shifted inversely together with the stop member and the back end of the sheet proceeds as the inversed leading end from the open end portion to a conveying-out path so that a succeeding sheet is allowed to be conveyed from the conveying-in path into the open end portion. When the sheet is shifted inversely, a shift regulating section regulates the shift of the sheet in such a way that the back end of the sheet is prevented from proceeding more than a predetermined distance due to the inertia of the shift. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090289408 | Sheet transport apparatus and image reading apparatus - A sheet transport apparatus is provided with a processing section having a processing position to process a sheet, and a first roller pair and a second roller pair disposed at the front and back of the processing section to transport the sheet to the processing section at a predetermined velocity. Each of driving transmission mechanisms respectively for driving the first roller pair and second roller pair is provided with a rotary shaft for supporting the roller, a rotary member provided with a circular fit hole to fit with the rotary shaft, and a holder member in which a D-shaped press-fit hole is formed to press-fit to the rotary shaft, and to the rotary shaft are attached the rotary member with the circular fit hole formed therein and the holder member with the D-shaped press-fit hole formed therein. Then, in attaching the holder member and rotary member to the rotary shaft, a concave portion of the holder member is fitted with a convex portion of the rotary member so that the rotary member and the holder member are substantially integrally coupled. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090295061 | Sheet discharge device and image forming apparatus - A sheet discharge device discharges a sheet to a sheet discharge tray. The sheet discharge device includes a rotary shaft, two inside drive rollers, two outside drive rollers, two inside driven rollers, two outside driven rollers, two end retainers, and two inside retainers. The drive rollers are rotatably attached to the rotary shaft. Each of the driven rollers opposes a corresponding one of the drive rollers to be driven by the drive roller. The end retainers and the inside retainers rotatably extend from the rotary shaft across a common tangent of the driven rollers and the drive rollers. The end retainers are longer than the inside rollers and constructed so as to rest on the stacked sheets. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090261524 | Image Forming System, Image Forming Apparatus and Print Server - An image forming apparatus has: pluralities of sheet storage units; a printing unit; a sheet driving unit that feeds a sheet of paper from the sheet storage units to the printing unit; a group setting maintaining unit that forms a group of the sheet storage units; a residual sheet amount detecting unit that detects sheet empty on any of the sheet storage units in the group; a sheet storage switching control unit that controls the sheet driving unit to select another one of the sheet storage units in the same group for feeding a sheet, if the residual sheet amount detecting unit detects the sheet empty; and a sheet empty warning unit that warns a user of the sheet empty detected by the residual sheet amount detecting unit. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090008857 | BILLS AND/OR CARD VALIDATOR AND STORAGE APPARATUS - The invention relates to apparatus for the provision of receipt, validation and collection of banknotes or tickets which are input by a user, typically as payment for a service which has or is to be provided. The apparatus allow for the accurate location of the banknote or ticket as it passes through the apparatus and the accurate validation of the same. In one embodiment a printer assembly is provided which a lows the apparatus to print tickets and to pass the same in the reverse direction to input banknotes or tickets, to be provided to the user as, for example a credit which can be cashed subsequently by the user. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20080237966 | Rotating Input Tray for An Automatic Document Feeder Of An Imaging Apparatus - A rotating input tray for an automatic document feeder of an imaging apparatus includes a document tray configured to hold the document and to supply the document to the input of the automatic document feeder in a document feed direction, and a pivot device coupling the document tray to the component of the imaging apparatus, the pivot device providing a document tray axis of rotation, wherein the document tray and the pivot device are configured to permit the document tray to rotate about the document tray axis of rotation between a closed position and an open position, the closed position being adjacent to the input for supplying the documents to the automatic document feeder, and the open position being away from and exposing both the input and the exit of the automatic document feeder. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20100127447 | DOCUMENT TRANSPORT APPARATUS - A method of scanning documents obtains the document that is to be scanned from an input tray, transports the document at a transport velocity past a scanner to obtain image data therefrom, and stacks each scanned document aligned with trailing-edge registration in a sloped output tray, in the order of scanning, by a sequence that detects the trailing edge of the scanned document, feeds the leading edge of the scanned document from an exit nip in a forward direction and above the sloped output tray at a transport velocity, then changes the speed at the exit nip to an exit velocity, different from the transport velocity, according to the timing of the trailing edge detection. The trailing edge of the scanned document is ejected at the exit velocity. The exit nip speed is restored to the transport velocity for feeding the leading edge of a subsequent document. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20080290579 | Image-Forming Device with Interlockingly Movable Two Paper Guide Members - An image-forming device includes a casing, a photosensitive drum, a transfer roller, a first guide member, and a second guide member. The first guide member is disposed upstream of the transfer point between the photosensitive drum and the transfer roller in a conveying direction of the recording medium and selectively movable between a first position and a second position. The second guide member is disposed between the first guide member and the transfer point and selectively movable between a third position and a fourth position farther from the photosensitive drum than the third position. The second guide member is movable in association with the movement of the first guide member in such a manner that when the first guide member is disposed in the first position, the second guide member is disposed in the third position for guiding the recording medium received from the first guide member to move toward the photosensitive drum. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20100201059 | Open/close mechanism for paper tray for use in image forming apparatus - An open/close mechanism can be used for paper trays of an image forming apparatus. The open/close mechanism includes a plate member provided on a side of a housing of the image forming apparatus and configured to pivot upon an axis between an open position and a close position, and a box member that is arranged in the housing beneath the plate member and that can be drawn out of the housing from the side. The open/close mechanism includes also includes a restricting unit that is coupled to the plate member and that abuts against the box member when the box member is set in the housing and when the plate member is in the open position thereby restricting detachment of the box member from the housing. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20110266741 | PAPER SHEETS HANDLING APPARATUS - A paper money handling apparatus comprises a service mechanism unit for delivery of a paper sheet or sheets, a counting processing unit for counting of a paper sheet or sheets, a stacker for storing of a paper sheet or sheets, and conveyance paths for conveyance of a paper sheet or sheets to the service mechanism unit, the counting processing unit, and the stacker. The apparatus further comprises connection guides provided between the conveyance paths and the stackers to perform delivery of a paper sheet or sheets, a motor, a cam and a solenoid, which switch the connection guides to a connected state to connect the same to the conveyance paths and the stackers to enable delivery of a paper sheet or sheets and to an evacuated state to release the connection. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20090283953 | AUTOMATIC SHEET FEEDER WITH RETRACTABLE SHEET SUPPORTING STRUCTURE - An automatic sheet feeder includes a body, a sheet-feeding mechanism and a sheet supporting structure. The body has a sheet passageway which has an input end and an output end. The sheet-feeding mechanism disposed in the body feeds a sheet from the input end into the sheet passageway and then discharges the sheet out of the output end. The sheet supporting structure, disposed at one of the input end and the output end and pivotally connected to the body, supports the sheet to be fed into the input end or the sheet to be discharged from the output end. The sheet supporting structure is rotatable relatively to the body and can be thus spread out or retracted relatively to the body. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090140486 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A spring is bridged between a pair of press levers, and a pair of driven rollers is pressurized uniformly, so that clamping and conveying force of the sheet of paper P on the front side and rear side by conveying rollers and the driven rollers is made equal such as Pf=Pr, the sheet of paper P are prevented from being skewed, while the sheet of paper P are clamped and conveyed by a conveying device, and the good conveying of the sheet of paper P is improved, thus the image quality is improved. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090140485 | RECORDING MATERIAL GUIDING DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - In a recording material guiding device, a second guide member is comprised of a hopper swinging surface, an edge guide member including a second side end guide member, and a liftup preventing guide. The hopper swinging surface is engaged in an opening provided in a side surface of a reference end guide serving as a first guide member. The second guide member can be slid in a main scanning direction with respect to the reference end guide (first guide member). During recording, a gap can be formed between the second side end guide member and a side end of the recording paper by sliding the second side end guide member from a first position to a second position, so that frictional contact can be prevented at the side end of the recording paper on the second side end guide member side. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090309287 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An automatic document feeder device | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090243184 | SHEET FEED DEVICES AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS COMPRISING SUCH SHEET FEED DEVICES - A sheet feed device has a tray with holding surface for holding sheets, a feed unit for feeding sheets from the tray, and a separation plate. The separation plate has an inclined surface and two or more separation portions that separate a sheet from the sheets held in the tray. At least one of the separation portions projects a first distance from the inclined surface. The separation plate also has a projection positioned on the inclined surface that projects a second distance from the inclined surface. The second distance is greater than the first distance. A first of the separation portions is positioned upstream of the particular projection in the sheet feed direction, and a second of the separation portions positioned downstream of the particular projection in the sheet feed direction. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090243185 | Automatic Document Feeder and Image Reading Device - There is provided an automatic document feeder, comprising: a document tray; an output tray on which the document for which image reading is finished is placed; a roller applying a carrying force to the document by rotating and contacting the document; a movable ejection flap movable between a first position where the document for which the image reading is finished is sunk into a position between the output tray and a bottom of a stacked document already staked on the output tray and a second position where the document is ejected on the output tray without being sunk into the position between the output tray and the bottom of the stacked document; a switching unit to switch between a first motion of transmitting a driving force of a driving source to the movable flap and a second motion of transmitting the driving force to the roller. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100156024 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING DISCHARGE DESTINATION FOR SHEET OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is composed of a main body, an image forming portion provided in the main body to form an image on a sheet, a top receiving tray provided on a top of the main body to load the sheet on which the image is formed in the image forming portion so as to be visible from the top of the main body, a side receiving tray provided at a side of the main body and under the top receiving tray to load the sheet on which the image is formed in the image forming portion with a maximum sheet loading amount more than the top receiving tray, and a control unit to control to select one of the top receiving tray and the side receiving tray as a discharge destination for the sheet according to whether or not a number of the output sheets outputted from the image forming portion exceeds a prescribed threshold value. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100264574 | MODULAR PRINTING SYSTEM HAVING A MODULE WITH A BYPASS PATH - Disclosed are embodiments of a modular printing system with one or more modules having one or more bypass paths and comprise a modular printing system with a module (e.g., a stacker or feeder module) having a main compartment and at least one additional compartment. Contained within the main compartment is a main sheet transport path and a functional component (e.g., a sheet stacking device or a sheet feeding device) connected to the main sheet transport path. Contained with the additional compartment is a bypass path. The bypass path allows sheets to be routed through the module in the event of a print media sheet jam in the main sheet transport path. Because the bypass path is contained within a separate compartment, the jam can be cleared from the main compartment without cycling down the printing system, thereby allowing for continued productivity. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20090267284 | TRANSPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - A transport device includes a transport path which connects an inlet and an outlet and is formed between a first curved surface which is convex in a first direction, and a second curved surface which faces the first curved surface via a gap, and along which a sheet-like medium is transported, a protruding portion which is arranged on the first curved surface and protrudes from the first curved surface, and a first roller which is arranged on the second curved surface, and at least a portion of which protrudes from the second curved surface. The protruding portion is arranged in a position where the sheet-like medium which has entered the transport path through the inlet contacts the protruding portion prior to the first roller. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100181715 | DOCUMENT IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A document imaging system includes a document transport system that transports an original document through an imaging zone in optical communication with an image recording device. A document guide directs the original document toward the imaging zone and a document biasing device urges the trailing edge of the original document toward the document transport system. A printing system utilizing a document imaging system and a method of imaging an original document are also included. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100276863 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying apparatus, including: a conveyance portion configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path; a skew-feed correction member positioned in the conveyance path such that a leading edge of the sheet conveyed by the conveyance portion contacts the skew-feed correction member to correct a skew-feed of the sheet; an receiving portion configured to receive information indicative of the width of the conveyed sheet, the width being in a direction orthogonal to a sheet conveyance direction; and a control portion configured to adjust a skew-correction conveyance amount of the conveyance portion applied to correct the skew-feed of the sheet by the skew-feed correction member, wherein the skew-correction conveyance amount is adjusted on information which the receiving portion receives such that the skew-correction conveyance amount is set to be larger for a sheet of smaller width compared to a sheet of greater width. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100252987 | FEEDER UNIT - A feeder unit includes: a first tray that keeps a storage position in which the first tray is stored within the base portion and an operation position, and is provided at one end of a feeding path of a medium so as to place the medium thereon; a cover member that is openably and closeably provided to cover the first tray in the storage position when being closed or uncover the first tray when being open; and a first power transmitter that transmits power to open and close the cover member to the first tray, and the first power transmitter is configured so as to displace the first tray to the operation position with the displacement of the cover member when the cover member is switched to an open-state, and to the storage position with the displacement of the cover member when the cover member is switched to a closed-state. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100230889 | PRINTING APPARATUS - There is provided a printing apparatus in which a first printing medium which is inserted through an inserting port is fed toward a predetermined printing location by a first feeding path unit, and the first printing medium is discharged through the inserting port in a direction opposite to the feeding direction. The first printing medium which is fed to the printing location is printed by a first printing unit. A page turning mechanism having a page turning function for the first printing medium is arranged inside of the first printing unit when seen from the inserting port. A second printing unit having a different printing type from the first printing unit is arranged further inside than the page turning mechanism when seen from the inserting port. A second printing medium which is printed in the second printing unit is reversely fed by the first feeding path unit through a merging portion from the second feeding path unit and then is discharged through the inserting port. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20090322011 | Inverting Document Feeding Device with Flap Portion - A document feeding device includes a document placing tray, a document ejection tray disposed above the document placing tray, a feeding path, a first reversal path, a second reversal path, and a reversing mechanism. The document ejection tray has a flap portion capable of rocking up and down to provide a first ejection mode and a second ejection mode. The reversing mechanism is configured to temporarily eject part of a document to a space portion between the document placing tray and the document ejection tray. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090315246 | INSERTER - The inserter including a storing unit, a sheet-feeding unit; a conveyance unit; and a controller that determines for every sheet a conveying speed of the sheet to be discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, in which the controller determines: the conveying speed of the sheet, which was discharged from the image forming apparatus, when the sheet is discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, based on the conveying speed when the inserter receives the sheet discharged from the image forming apparatus; and a conveying speed of the insert-sheet, which was fed by the sheet-feeding unit, when the insert-sheet is discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, based on a conveying speed of one of a preceding sheet and a succeeding sheet, when one of the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet is discharged to the downstream side device. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090072466 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING PLURAL SHEET CONVEYING PATH - An image forming apparatus includes an ADF provided in an upper part of a main body of the image forming apparatus, a printer unit that prints image data, plural conveying paths that are provided in parallel in the main body and convey sheets having images formed thereon by the printer unit in the same direction, a first discharge port configured to discharge a sheet conveyed via a first conveying path, a second discharge port configured to discharge a sheet conveyed via a second conveying path to a finisher, and a first storage tray that receives the sheet discharged from the first discharge port, and the image forming apparatus performs control to discharge a sheet of a nonstandard size to the first storage tray via the first conveying path. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100295233 | Sheet feeding apparatus, image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus - A sheet feeding apparatus includes a first feeding member that feeds a sheet along a predetermined feeding path, and a second feeding member that further feeds the sheet along the feeding path. The second feeding member is provided on a downstream side of the first feeding member along the feeding path. A sheet guide for guiding the sheet is provided between the first and second feeding members along the feeding path. The sheet feeding apparatus further includes a sheet holding member that holds the sheet against the sheet guide, and a biasing assisting member that applies a biasing force to the sheet holding member by means of the sheet which is fed between the first and second feeding members. The biasing force assists the sheet holding member to hold the sheet against the sheet guide. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110233845 | MEDIA TRANSPORT SYSTEM - A system and method for transporting a sheet of media through a print zone including a media entrance station, a media exit station and a first media transport translatable in a reciprocal manner between the entrance and exit stations. A second media transport transports a sheet onto and off of the first media transport. The second media transport transports the sheet in a first direction as the first media transport is moving in a second opposite direction. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20100314823 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, FINISHING APPARATUS AND SHEET GUIDE METHOD - A sheet processing apparatus of an embodiment includes a spring member which supports a support leg provided on an end bottom of a finishing apparatus at a side of an image forming apparatus and is extendable in a height direction, a sheet feed port which is formed in the finishing apparatus to be opposite to a sheet discharge port of the image forming apparatus and has a width wider than a width of the sheet discharge port in the height direction, sheet discharge guides which are arranged to be opposite to each other at an exit of the sheet discharge port and sandwich a conveyance path of the sheet in the image forming apparatus, sheet feed guides which are arranged to be opposite to each other at an inlet of the sheet feed port and sandwich a conveyance path of the sheet in the finishing apparatus, electromagnets provided at ends of the sheet feed guides at a side of the sheet feed port, and magnetic members which are rotatably provided to ends of the sheet discharge guides at a side of the sheet discharge port and are attracted by the electromagnets. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110024966 | Sheet discharging device and image forming apparatus including same - A sheet discharging device including a sheet discharging unit provided at one end of an image forming apparatus; a sheet discharge tray located adjacent to the sheet discharging unit, rotatably provided at the end of the image forming apparatus in a stored position to cover the end of the image forming apparatus and in an extended position extended from the end of the image forming apparatus to stack sheets discharged from the image forming apparatus; and a driving mechanism to drive a shutter provided to the sheet discharge tray in conjunction with rotary movement of the sheet discharge tray to open an opening in the sheet discharge tray in the stored position and to close the opening in the sheet discharge tray in the extended position. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20100171257 | SHEET FINISHER AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM PROVIDED THEREWITH - In a sheet finisher which receives a sheet from an image forming apparatus, conducts a sheet finishing onto the sheet and feeds out the sheet, the sheet finisher includes: a stacking section which stores temporarily one or more sheets; and a sheet finishing section which conducts the sheet finishing onto the sheet stored in the stacking section. The stacking section having a first guide member which forms a stacking surface to guide the sheet, and a second guide member which faces the first guide member and is spaced apart from the first guide member by a predetermined distance, and is provided obliquely from a horizontal direction, and the stacking surface formed by at least a part of the first guide member, is formed to be curved in a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100164161 | Bill Deposit/Withdrawal Machine For depositing/Withdrawing Bills - A bill deposit/withdrawal machine includes a deposit/withdrawal port, a bill discriminating unit, a plurality of bill accepting boxes and a bill transport path which connects the deposit/withdrawal port and the bill accepting boxes through the bill discriminating unit which transports bills. The deposit/withdrawal port and the bill discriminating unit are disposed in an upper part of the machine, and the bill accepting boxes are disposed in a lower part of the machine. The bill transport path includes an upper bill transport path provided in the upper part of the machine, and a lower bill transport path provided in the lower part of the machine. The lower bill transport path is installed along the bill accepting boxes and includes a mechanism for bidirectionally transporting bills and a switchable gate connecting with one of the bill accepting boxes. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100225043 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a recording apparatus including a recording portion which records an image on a recording medium, a feeding mechanism which feeds the medium along a feed path extending from a recording-medium supply position to a recording-medium ejection position via a recording point where the recording portion performs the recording of the image, a reading portion which reads the image recorded on the medium fed along the feed path, and a position controller which controls a position of at least one of the medium and the reading portion such that the medium as located at a reading point for the reading portion in the feed path is selectively placed in one of a first position allowing the reading portion to read the image recorded on the recording medium and a second position at which the recording medium is away from the reading portion farther than when at the first position. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100225044 | POST-PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A post-processing device includes an introductory feed path, a processing tray, a post-processing section, a catch tray, a sheet delivery section, and a control section. The post-processing section is configured to perform post-processing on the sheet placed on the processing tray. The catch tray is disposed below the processing tray. The sheet delivery section has an upper rotary member and a lower rotary member which are disposed at an end of the processing tray lying on a catch tray side so as to be movable toward and away from each other. The control section causes the upper rotary member and the lower rotary member to press against each other at latest by the time a leading edge of a first sheet of a group of sheets to be post-processed at a time is brought into contact with the catch tray. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20090085274 | BILL DEPOSIT/WITHDRAWAL MACHINE FOR DEPOSITING/WITHDRAWING BILLS - A bill deposit/withdrawal machine including a deposit/withdrawal port for delivering the bills deposited by users and discharging bills to users. The deposit/withdrawal port includes a bill hopper for accepting bills deposited by users and discharging bills to users, a delivering mechanism for delivering bills deposited by users, and a push plate operation mechanism for moving a push plate which forms an accepting unit and which supports bills. The bill hopper is movable by rotation operations with a bill delivering side as a fulcrum, and the delivering mechanism includes at least a gate controller which does not rotate in a delivering direction. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090218750 | Document Feeding Device - A document feeding device for feeding documents comprises a document input tray on which documents to be fed are placed, a document output tray to which the documents are ejected, and a feeding mechanism which is provided for a feeding path connecting the document input tray and the document output tray via a scanning position and feeds each document from the document input tray to the scanning position and from the scanning position to the document output tray. The document output tray includes a tray part which holds the ejected documents, a projecting part which pushes up a part of the ejected documents on the upstream side in a feeding direction and thereby lifts an upstream end of the ejected documents, and a pressing member which makes contact with the ejected documents from above at a position on the downstream side of the projecting part's apex in the feeding direction. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090218747 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for controlling a sheet processing apparatus configured to convey a sheet fed from any one of a plurality of sheet feed units includes detecting curling of the sheet fed from any one of the plurality of sheet feed units, and specifying a sheet feed unit that has fed the sheet having the detected curling from among the plurality of sheet feed units. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090218748 | Document Feeding Device - A document feeding device comprises a document input tray, a document output tray, a feeding mechanism for a feeding path, a turnover mechanism for a turnover path, ejection rollers, an ejection mechanism which switches its document ejection mode between a first ejection mode (for successively ejecting each document while stacking it on documents already ejected to the document output tray) and a second ejection mode (for successively ejecting each document while sliding it under the already ejected documents) by relatively moving a nipping position of the ejection rollers and an upstream end position of the document output tray in the vertical direction, a pressing member which is pivotable up and down on the downstream side of the ejection rollers and which presses down the already ejected documents in the first ejection mode, and a retracting mechanism which retracts the pressing member by pivoting it upward in the second ejection mode. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090033019 | Device for changing the direction of movement of sheet-type products - A transport apparatus ( | 02-05-2009 |
| 20100059921 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISK STACKING AND COMPILING MEDIA SHEETS - An apparatus ( | 03-11-2010 |
| 20110074084 | PRINTER - A printer includes a printer body, a tray, and an actuating device. The printer body is capable of outputting file paper from a paper output opening. The tray is attached to the printer body configured for holding file paper. The actuating device is attached to the tray capable of moving the file paper in the tray to a predetermined position. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110024965 | Image Forming Apparatus - A laser printer is equipped with first to fourth motors, and controls independently first to fourth driving portions, respectively. The laser printer does a continuous double-side printing for a preceding paper and a following paper. When the preceding paper on a first surface of which the printing is applied is conveyed to a predetermined position, the laser printer feeds the following paper. When the preceding paper exceeds a sensing range of a paper sensor, the laser printer conveys the preceding paper at a high-speed re-conveyance velocity in a switchback mode. When the feeding of the following paper is done normally, the laser printer conveys the preceding paper to a re-conveyance path while lowering the conveyance velocity to a normal re-conveyance velocity. When an error occurs in the feeding of the following paper, the laser printer stops the conveyance of the preceding paper in the switchback mode. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20100295232 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE WITH OPTIMISED REVERSING TRACK LAYOUT AND SINGLE IMAGE CAPACITY - A document processing device and method of processing documents are disclosed. In one aspect, a document processing device includes a path of travel of documents through the document processing device, the path of travel including an approximately straight portion between a document tray and a document outlet and a return path to the document tray. The document processing device also includes a magnetic ink character recognition reader placed adjacent to the path of travel, and oriented to read magnetic characters printed on a document passing along the path of travel, the document having a front surface and a rear surface. The document processing device also includes an image capture device placed adjacent to the approximately straight portion of the path of travel and oriented to capture an image of the document passing along the path of travel. A plurality of rollers at least partially defines the path of travel, and includes a drive roller configured to route documents along the path of travel. A one-way gate defines a portion of the path of travel, the one-way gate capable of cooperating with the drive roller to reverse the orientation of the front and rear surfaces of the document within the path of travel. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20090014940 | PAPER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A paper supply device and an image forming apparatus, capable of always maintaining a constant pickup force regardless of the amount of loaded sheets of paper. The paper supply device includes a paper supply cassette, a pickup unit to pick up the paper, a paper supply plate and a press spring to bias the paper toward the pickup unit, a first restraining device to restrain the paper supply plate and to release the restraint of the paper supply plate, a second restraining device to permit the pickup unit to move vertically when the pickup unit picks up the paper and restricts the vertical movement of the pickup unit when the pickup unit does not pick up the paper, and an elastic member to bias the pickup unit toward the paper to provide the pickup unit with a pickup force when the pickup unit picks up the paper. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20100252986 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND TRANSPORTING CONTROL METHOD IN RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is a recording apparatus for performing recording on a medium, including: a transporting unit which transports the medium; a recording unit which performs the recording on the transported medium; a control unit which controls the transporting unit and the recording unit; and a detection unit which detects presence or absence of the medium at a predetermined position in a transporting path, wherein, during or after the transporting of the medium, after the detection unit detects medium absence if the detection unit detects medium presence during an interval until the transporting for a regulated distance, which is set as a value of a diameter or more of a hole provided to the medium, is finished, the control unit determines erroneous operation and performs a predetermined process so as to remove the erroneous operation state. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20090295060 | TRANSPORT DEVICE FOR IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CORRECTING TRANSPORT SPEED IN TRANSPORT DEVICE FOR IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - A transport device is provided which uses a linear motor mechanism ( | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100244356 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING MACHINE - A paper sheet handling machine | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100244355 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a main housing, a post-processing unit including a pivotable processing tray, and a recording medium discharging outlet. The processing tray includes a lock member, urging member and lock releasing member. The lock member is supported movably between first and second positions. The lock member engages with an engaging hole at the first position and disengages from the engaging hole at the second position. The urging member urges the lock member towards the first position. The lock releasing member resists a force applied by the urging member so as to allow the lock member to travel to the second position. A recording medium depressing member is disposed within a pivotal range of the lock member. A first slope is provided on at least one of a contact portion of the lock member and a contact portion of the recording medium depressing member. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100244354 | COMBINED SHEET BUFFER AND INVERTER - Disclosed is a sheet buffering and inverting device having a sheet transport path and multiple sheet inverter paths extending upward and/or downward there from. Sheets being transported through the sheet transport path are selectively diverted into the sheet inverter paths, held, and subsequently fed back into the sheet transport path such that they are inverted. Optionally, an additional sheet transport path can branch off the sheet transport path upstream of the sheet inverter paths and can connect to the distal end of each of the sheet inverter paths to allow sheets to be buffered without being inverted. This device can be incorporated into a discrete module of a modular printing system to ensure sheets are properly merged and oriented after processing by multiple printing engines. Alternatively, it can be incorporated into a standalone printing system to ensure sheets are properly buffered and/or inverted prior to processing by a single printing engine. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100283196 | DOCUMENT FEEDING DEVICE FOR HANDLING AND REVERTING DOUBLE-SIDED DOCUMENT SHEETS TO AN ORIGINAL SEQUENCE - A document feeding device for handling and reverting double-sided document sheets to an original sequence is provided, including a housing unit and a switching unit. The housing unit includes a delivery passage, a flipping passage, a bypass area, a return passage and upper and lower turning passages. The switching unit, pivotally disposed in the bypass area, includes a first switching member, a second switching member connecting to a side of the first switching member, and a guiding passage between the first switching member and the second switching member. The switching unit switches between a first position and a second position. By the switching of the switching unit, the double-sided document is flipped, scanned and reverted to an original sequence. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110079950 | UNIT FOR INSERTING A SINGLE VALUABLE DOCUMENT - A device for accepting a value document comprises a support means which forms a supporting surface for the value document onto which the value document can be placed for acceptance, a guide means for the value document on which the value document resting at least partly on the supporting surface can be aligned with one side along a predefined draw-in direction, and a draw-in device for drawing in along the draw-in direction the value document lying against the guide means and resting at least partly on the supporting surface, wherein the supporting surface has at least one surface area which is inclined toward the guide means relative to a predefined horizontal plane. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20100019438 | Recording Medium Accumulating Device and Method - Disclosed are a recording medium accumulating device and a method for accumulating recording medium. The device includes a cylindroid roller for winding up the recording medium and at least two endless belts, peripheral surfaces of the cylindroid roller contact with external surfaces of the endless belts respectively, and a closed medium-feeding passage is formed between the contacting surfaces, a medium-entering passage and a medium-discharging passage for the recording medium are respectively formed between two adjacent endless belts, the medium-entering passage and the medium-discharging passage connect with the medium-feeding passage, the medium-feeding passage drives the recording medium to rotate with the cylindroid roller using the friction force of the contacting surfaces, so as to accumulate the recording medium. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100019437 | DOUBLE-SIDED IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A double-sided image forming device includes: a paper feeding section ( | 01-28-2010 |
| 20110304091 | PAPER-SHEET COUNTING MACHINE - A paper-sheet counting machine ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120306144 | DISCHARGED SHEET ALIGNING DEVICE AND IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a image erasing apparatus includes a paper feeding section configured to feed a sheet having a erasable image, a erasing section configured to erase the image, a paper discharge section including a paper discharge member configured to discharge, downstream in a conveying path of the erasing section, the sheet from which the image is erased and a paper discharge tray on which the discharged sheet is stacked, and a longitudinal alignment plate pivotably provided above the paper discharge tray and configured to align the leading end of the sheet stacked on the paper discharge tray. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120007303 | PROCESSING ON A TRANSPORTER - A device and method for transport of flexible, two dimensional products and performance of associated production processing of those products, by which the flexible, two-dimensional products are serially conveyed to a workstation and are conveyed away from the workstation again by the same gripper transporter, which enables the workstation to be selectively removed from the production process being performed along the transport path of the printed products, and to be selectively re-introduced again the transport path, in a flexible manner. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20100096794 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A sheet stacking device for stacking conveyed sheets includes a stacking surface on which the sheets are stacked; a plurality of projections that project from the stacking surface. Wherein, the projections extend generally in a travel direction of the sheets, which is a direction in which the sheets travel when entering the sheet stacking device, the projections include outer projections and inner projections, the inner projections are located between the inner projections, and a projecting height of the inner projections from the stacking surface is greater than that of the outer projections. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20110089624 | ROTARY DIVERTER WITH FUNNEL SECTION - System for directing media from one an input media path to one of multiple output paths using a rotary diverter. The rotary diverter is a cylinder mounted for rotation at a crossover point, where input media paths and output media paths cross. The rotary diverter includes a funnel-shaped section longitudinally cut through the cylinder, the sides of the funnel-shaped section lying at an acute angle. A relatively narrow output end of the funnel-shaped section lies toward the apex of the angle, and a relatively wide input end lies opposite the apex. The input end is thus configured to receive media, and the output end is configured to output media. The rotary diverter can accept input media from one input media path, or from several paths, given the wide input section. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20120313310 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a body, a sheet feed unit, a regulator, an image forming device, and a sheet output unit. The sheet feed unit is removably mounted to the body to store a recording medium. The regulator has a locking portion and is disposed in the sheet feed unit to regulate a position of the medium in a width direction of the medium. The image forming device forms an image on the medium conveyed from the sheet feed unit. The sheet output unit is disposed above the sheet feed unit to stack the medium on which the image is formed by the image forming device. When the sheet feed unit is drawn from the body to a predetermined position, the sheet feed unit is rotatable downward by weight of the sheet feed unit and the sheet output unit rotates upward with rotation of the sheet feed unit. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20100289207 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET POST-PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a sheet post-processing apparatus includes a machine body, a first roller pair, a tray, a second roller pair, a driving unit, an inlet sensor, a receiving unit and a control unit. The inlet sensor is configured to detect presence or absence of the sheet in the first roller pair driven by the driving unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive, from an image forming apparatus, sheet length information in the sheet conveying direction of the sheet as a target to which the print job is applied. The control unit is configured to control the driving unit to rotate, if the sheet length information indicates special length and the inlet sensor detects a trailing end of the sheet, at least rollers of the second roller pair a predetermined number of times and stop the rollers, the second roller pair nipping the sheet. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100289206 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus including a stacker which is configured to be displaced between a first posture for stacking a recording medium in an inclined state that a first end part which is distant from a recording position in a transport direction is located above a second end part which is near thereto, and a second posture for forming a transporting path of a straight line along which the recording medium is able to be transported toward the recording position; a first support unit which supports the first end part of the stacker to be able to rotate; and a second support unit which moves the second end part of the stacker upward and downward while supporting the second end part of the stacker to rotate the stacker centering around the first end part when the stacker is displaced between the first posture and the second posture. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20090057983 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS AND SHEET STACKING METHOD - In a sheet stacking apparatus, a pair of side members includes a pair of lower side members which is provided with an approximately same distance therebetween as a width of a planographic printing plate and limits a movement in the planographic printing plate width direction; and a pair of upper side members which are provided above the pair of lower side members, each of which is provided with a movable section movable in the planographic printing plate width direction, and on which tapered surfaces are formed facing each other in a generally V shape. The distance between the pair of upper side members is controlled by driving the movable sections of the pair of upper side members so as to prevent quality degradation caused by a thrown-in sheet scratching a stacked sheet. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20100270726 | SHEET TRANSPORTING DEVICE - A rotation-transmitting mechanism includes a first planetary gear mechanism and a locking mechanism. The first planetary gear mechanism transmits rotational driving force to the transportation unit through a first planet gear to rotate the transportation roller when the motor rotates in a first direction, and transmits rotational driving force to the transportation unit through a second planet gear to rotate the transportation roller when the motor rotates in a second direction. The locking mechanism can lock a planetary rocking member of the first planetary gear mechanism in such a condition that rotational driving force of the motor is transmitted to the transportation unit through the second planet gear. The locking mechanism terminates locking of the planetary rocking member of the first planetary gear mechanism by engaging with the sheet in the transportation path downstream of the transportation roller with respect to the direction in which the sheet is transported. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100001452 | SHEET PROCESSING SYSTEM, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - A sheet processing system has a sheet processing apparatus and a server. The server stores, as sheet, the identification data of a sheet and the result of a process performed on the sheet in association. The server transmits the sheet data to the sheet processing apparatus. The sheet processing apparatus receives the sheet data from the serer and stores the sheet data. The sheet processing apparatus acquires mages of the sheet fed to it and acquires the identification data of the sheet on the basis of the images acquired. The sheet processing apparatus refers to the sheet data, discriminates the sheet on the basis of the identification data acquired, and classifies and collects the sheet in accordance with the result of discrimination. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100314822 | Paper-feeding device - A paper-feeding device with functions of single-face/double-face scanning and printing. The paper-feeding device has a simplified structure and reduced height, whereby a paper can be more smoothly delivered through a scanning module and/or a printing module in a paper delivery path of the paper-feeding device. The paper delivery path includes: a first path having a front section and a rear section; a second path connected to the rear section of the first path, an angle contained between the rear section of the first path and a horizontal reference axis and an angle contained between the second path and the horizontal reference axis ranging from 0° to 30°; a return path positioned between the first and second paths; and a paper discharge path. The paper can be selectively moved between the first and second paths and the return path to complete the single-face/double-face scanning and printing operation. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100327510 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus include: a main body having a side wall in which an opening is formed; a cover for opening and closing the opening; and a guide member for guiding a printed recording sheet, arranged in a position facing to the opening. The guide member is pivotally supported at its lower end portion on the main body. When the cover is being opened and the guide member is pivoted around its lower end portion as a pivot axis so that an upper end portion of the guide member is tilted toward the opened cover and into a lying-back position, a second sheet-output passage is formed which extends from the image forming unit toward the opened cover through the opening. The guide member is movable to a position away from the opened cover when it is in the lying-back position. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110037217 | OFFICE MACHINE - An office machine includes a housing, a support member, a first restraining member and a first roller assembly. The housing has an acting surface with a first end point. An acting point is defined on the support member. The first restraining member has a first restraining point and a second restraining point. The first roller assembly has a first nip point. The second restraining point is not lower than the first end point. The acting point is located between the first end point and the first restraining point. Furthermore, the first restraining point is located between the acting point and the first nip point. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20120319346 | SHEET STORAGE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - This invention provides a sheet storage device, which can enhance sheet taking-out property in taking out of a sheet from a sorting device and sheet visibility. A sheet storage device | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120080833 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE - An image recording device includes a housing, a tray unit mounted in the housing and configured to hold thereon sheets, a feeder configured to feed a sheet from the tray unit, a recording unit configured to record an image on the sheet fed by the feeder, and a discharging unit configured to discharge the sheet after the recording unit records the image on the sheet. The tray unit includes a first tray including a first holding surface for holding thereon a first sheet, a second tray includes a second holding surface for holding thereon a second sheet and configured to move above the first holding surface between a first position and a second position, and a third tray supported by the first tray and disposed above the second tray in the second position, and configured to receive the sheet discharged by the discharging unit. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20110285073 | LETTERBOX MEDIA DIVERTER - A 3-way letterbox media diverter directs and controls media in 2 forward directions and 1 reverse direction within a printer's paper path. The letterbox design enables actuation of the diverter from a first position to a second position just as the trail edge of a sheet passes a post fuser nip. Once the diverter reaches the second position, an invert nip now controlling the sheet is reversed to thereby invert the sheet. Thus, inversion of the sheet is accomplished in a small space envelope, time to reverse direction is reduced, process speed can be reduced and additional paper guides are eliminated. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20130015619 | SCANNING-PRINTING INTEGRATED APPARATUSAANM Jiang; TianxinAACI WeihaiAACO CNAAGP Jiang; Tianxin Weihai CNAANM Tang; XiaojieAACI WeihaiAACO CNAAGP Tang; Xiaojie Weihai CNAANM Dong; ShuxunAACI WeihaiAACO CNAAGP Dong; Shuxun Weihai CNAANM Wang; ChuntaoAACI WeihaiAACO CNAAGP Wang; Chuntao Weihai CNAANM Yang; MinAACI WeihaiAACO CNAAGP Yang; Min Weihai CN - A scanning-printing integrated apparatus comprises a scanning passage ( | 01-17-2013 |
