Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
271300170 | Sensor located at the delivering and controls the feeding | 18 |
20080277859 | MODULAR PROCESSING DEVICE AS WELL AS A CONSTRUCTION KIT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUCH A PROCESSING DEVICE - The invention relates to a processing device for processing printed products, in particular for collecting individual printed sheets for manufacturing an assembled printed product. The device includes a drum rotatable about a rotation axis and at least two feed stations arranged distanced from one another in the direction of the rotation axis, for feeding printed products, and at least one lead-away station for leading away processed printed products. The drum includes several guides, in particular saddle-like rests or conveyor compartments which are arranged in succession in the peripheral direction of the drum and are movable along a closed revolving path, as well as advance elements controlled by a control unit, for displacing the printed products in the direction of the rotation axis. For increasing the flexibility, the device is composed of modules. | 11-13-2008 |
20080277860 | Sheet-conveying apparatus and method for detection of multifeed thereof - A sheet-conveying apparatus and a method for detection of the multifeed thereof are provided. The sheet-conveying apparatus includes a passageway, a sheet-transporting mechanism and a sheet-detecting device. The sheet-detecting device disposed in the passageway includes a first transmitter, a first receiver, a second transmitter and a second receiver. A first signal is transmitted from the first transmitter along a first transmitting path and received by the first receiver. A second signal is transmitted from the second transmitter along a second transmitting path and received by the second receiver. The second transmitting path is oblique to the first transmitting path. The sheet-detecting device further includes a control-process unit for determining if the condition of the multifeed has occurred in the sheet-conveying apparatus according to the variations in the first signal and the second signal respectively received by the first receiver and the second receiver. | 11-13-2008 |
20090033020 | Presenting misaligned stacks of media - A method of operating a self-service terminal is described in which a stack of media is presented to a customer. If it is detected that at least some of the stack remains within the terminal, the remaining media is advanced out of the self-service terminal. | 02-05-2009 |
20090079124 | RECORDING MEDIUM TRANSFER APPARATUS - A recording medium transfer apparatus includes a motor control unit for controlling the motor to rotate at higher speed when the recording medium is fed to the liquid ejection area than that when the recording medium is discharged out of the liquid ejection area, and a feed control unit for controlling a next recording medium to be fed simultaneously with discharge of the recording medium, if a position of a rear end of the recording medium when recording or printing has been finished is situated upstream of a predetermined position, which is upstream of the discharge roller as much as a distance between a feed start position of the recording medium and the liquid ejection area, whereas controlling the next recording medium to start to be fed after discharge of the recording medium has been finished, if the position of the rear end of the recording medium when recording or printing has been finished is situated downstream of the predetermined position. | 03-26-2009 |
20100044949 | Printer with plurality of paper receiving trays and paper discharge control method for the same - A printer including: a plurality of paper receiving trays configured to receive discharged sheets; a tray full detection sensor configured to detect that an amount of discharged sheets stacked on the respective paper receiving trays reaches a respective predetermined amount; a tray empty detection sensor configured to detect that no discharged sheets are stacked on the respective paper receiving trays; and a paper discharge control unit configured to, when the tray full detection sensor detects that an amount of discharged sheets stacked on a first paper receiving tray used as a current paper discharge destination reaches the predetermined amount during printing, perform continuous paper discharge to continue printing by changing the paper discharge destination from the first paper receiving tray to a second paper receiving tray that the tray empty detection sensor detects as having no discharged sheets stacked thereon at a time of the detection of the first paper receiving tray and that receives discharged sheets with printed surfaces facing a same direction as that of the first paper receiving tray. | 02-25-2010 |
20100066005 | Discharged-sheet monitoring mechanism and method for printer - A discharged sheet monitoring mechanism for a printer includes: a paper receiving tray configured to receive and stack discharged printed sheets thereon; a stack amount detector configured to detect a stack amount of discharged sheets stacked on the paper receiving tray; a remaining amount calculator configured to calculate a remaining amount based on the stack amount detected by the stack amount detector, the remaining amount being a difference in amount between the stack amount and a maximum stacking amount of the paper receiving tray; a sheet type acquisition unit configured to acquire a type of a sheet to be printed; a dischargeable sheet amount calculator configured to calculate a dischargeable number of sheets further stackable on the paper receiving tray until the paper receiving tray is full therewith based on the remaining amount calculated by the remaining amount calculator and the sheet type acquired by the sheet type acquisition unit; and a notification unit configured to notify the dischargeable number of sheets calculated by the dischargeable sheet amount calculator. | 03-18-2010 |
20100148421 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A reduction is prevented in stacking efficiency of a sheet stacking apparatus due to a wrong setting of a stacking tray performed by a user thereby achieving a high stacking efficiency. In a control method for controlling an image forming apparatus including a sheet stacking control unit configured to stack sheets, subjected to printing in a print job, on one of a plurality of removable sheet stacking units, the control method includes specifying a sheet discharging unit used in the print job, determining whether a sheet stacking unit corresponding to the specified sheet discharging unit is properly set, and, in a case where it is determined that the sheet stacking unit is not properly set, restricting conveying sheets to the sheet stacking unit. | 06-17-2010 |
20100301542 | PAPER SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE - A paper sheet processing device having a simplified and low cost structure capable of detecting whether or not a paper currency receiving section is attached to the device and also detecting the position of a pressing plate. The paper sheet processing device has the paper currency receiving section which can be attached to and detached from a frame and can receive a paper currency, the pressing plate ( | 12-02-2010 |
20110042883 | SHEET-FEEDING TYPE SCANNING APPARATUS AND AUTOMATIC SHEET FEEDING METHOD - A sheet-feeding type scanning apparatus and an automatic sheet feeding method are provided. The sheet-feeding type scanning apparatus includes a scanning module, a first sheet input tray, a first sheet pick-up roller assembly, a sheet ejecting tray, a sheet transfer channel, a plurality of transfer roller assemblies, a sheet ejecting roller assembly, a sheet-feeding sensor and a clutch module. Once a first sheet article of multiple sheet articles placed on the first sheet input tray are fed into the internal portion of the sheet-feeding type scanning apparatus to trigger the sheet-feeding sensor, the clutch module is disabled. At this moment, a second sheet article placed on the first sheet input tray fails to be fed by the first sheet pick-up roller assembly. Therefore, the double feeding problem is solved. | 02-24-2011 |
20110187039 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus with a double-face printing function is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a sheet feeding path including a regular feeding path and a return-feeding path and capable of accommodating a plurality of recording sheets, a sheet-ejection controller to eject the recording sheet out of the sheet feeding path through a sheet outlet. The sheet-ejection controller controls a recording sheet closer to the sheet outlet in the direction of sheet-conveyance along the sheet feeding path to be ejected prior to a recording sheet further from the sheet outlet when cancellation of the print job is entered during a double-face printing operation, in which the images are formed on one side of N pieces of recording sheets continuously and the other side of M pieces of recording sheets thereafter, whilst M is smaller than or equal to N. | 08-04-2011 |
20110260390 | MEDIUM TRANSFER APPARATUS FOR AN AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE - The present invention relates to a medium transfer apparatus for an automated teller machine, wherein the structure for opening and shutting the medium transfer path of the medium transfer apparatus is simply formed, to thereby conveniently open and shur the medium transfer path of the medium transfer apparatus, and to conveniently and quickly prevent a jam occurring during the transfer of a paper medium performed by the medium transfer apparatus. | 10-27-2011 |
20120326378 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VARYING A NIP POINT - A system for conveying sheets of corrugated paperboard material or other materials. The system includes a processing module configured for transferring the material in a conveying direction, the processing module having a first nip point. A conveyor is positioned downstream of the processing module and also configured for transferring the material in the conveying direction. The conveyor includes a first support roller and second support roller having a first conveyor belt wound therearound, with the belt defining a deflector section extending from the first support roller to the second support roller. Similar to the processing module, the conveyor includes a second nip point. An adjustment drive can be operatively associated with either or both of the first and second support rollers and configured to adjust the position of the second nip point in or counter to the delivery direction. | 12-27-2012 |
20130049283 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A controller controls operations of a sheet conveying portion and a sheet feeding portion in such a manner that an operation for feeding a preceding sheet by the sheet feeding portion is started after a downstream portion of a subsequent sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying portion is overlapped an upstream portion of the preceding sheet stacked on the stacking portion, and the downstream edge of the preceding sheet is caused to abut against the reference member by the sheet feeding portion in a state where the upstream portion of the preceding sheet and the downstream portion of the subsequent sheet are maintained in an overlapped state. | 02-28-2013 |
20140339756 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A printing apparatus according to one aspect of this invention automatically discharges, of sheets remaining on a conveyance path when a sheet being conveyed jams, dischargeable sheets to one of a plurality of sheet retraction units. At this time, the printing apparatus detects the stacked state of sheets discharged to the sheet retraction unit. When the printing apparatus detects that the sheet retraction unit has become a predetermined state, it changes the discharge destination of sheets to be conveyed to the sheet retraction unit, thereby controlling not to further discharge a sheet to that sheet retraction unit. According to this control, when retracting sheets remaining on the conveyance path upon occurrence of a jam in the printing apparatus, occurrence of a new jam can be prevented. | 11-20-2014 |
20140374982 | SCANNER DEVICE AND MULTIFUNCTION APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A scanner device including: a scanning path on which a scanning member for scanning an image from a document is disposed; a supply path on which a document is supplied to the scanning path; a discharge path on which a document is discharged after scanning of the document on the scanning path has been completed; and a re-supply path that extended to the supply path from a intersection where the scanning path and the discharge path cross so that a document fed along the discharge path in a direction opposite to a document-feeding direction is re-supplied to the supply path after scanning of one side of the document has been completed, wherein one-side guide portions of the supply path, the discharge path, and the re-supply path are integrally formed. | 12-25-2014 |
20150375956 | SHEET EJECTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet ejecting device includes a sheet conveyance path, an exit port, at least one ejection roller pair, and a sheet detection portion. The sheet detection portion detects a sheet being ejected. The sheet detection portion includes an actuator and a sensor. The actuator moves by contact with a sheet passing along the sheet conveyance path. The sensor detects the actuator. The actuator moves between a detectable position where the actuator is detectable by the sensor and an undetectable position where the actuator is not detectable by the sensor. The actuator has a sheet guide portion. The sheet guide portion extends along a sheet conveyance direction. The sheet guide portion moves, in a direction transverse to the sheet conveyance direction such that the actuator moves to the detectable position, by contact with the sheet passing along the sheet conveyance path and guides the sheet in the sheet conveyance direction. | 12-31-2015 |
20160083216 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When the reception section has received a duplex printing instruction, the operation control section controls an sheet feeding unit to feed one sheet, and controls an image forming unit to form an image of a first page on one side of the sheet, and controls the sheet conveying unit to discharge the sheet. When the reception section has received an instruction indicating that the discharged sheet is an unused sheet with the formed image, the operation control section controls the sheet feeding unit to feed one sheet set in a manual feed tray, and controls the image forming unit to form an image of a second page on the other side of the sheet. The operation control section controls the feeding unit to feed a sheet, and controls the image forming unit to form images of a third page and subsequent pages on both sides of the sheet. | 03-24-2016 |
20160163145 | PAPER SHEET TRANSACTION DEVICE - A paper sheet transaction device includes a drop unit, a storage unit, a temporary holder, and a control unit, wherein the temporary holder is removably provided in the paper sheet transaction device, and the control unit performs a control such that the temporary holder is a space that temporarily holds a paper sheet dropped through the drop unit before the paper sheet is stored in the storage unit, performs a control such that the temporary holder is a space into which at least a portion of the paper sheets in the storage unit is collected, and performs a control such that the paper sheets stored in advance in the temporary holder are transported to the storage unit. | 06-09-2016 |