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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186672 | Currency cassette capacity monitoring and reporting An indicator, such as an alarm or warning, is generated to indicate that a document storage cassette attached to a document handling device (e.g., a currency validator) has reached a particular capacity or is approaching its full capacity. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8177224 | Methods and apparatus for shingle stacking of tickets in a ticket printer To ensure a proper stacking order of paper tickets that exit a transaction-based printer, a stacking nip is provided which accepts a first ticket. The first ticket is fed into the stacking nip, and then advanced by the stacking nip for a fixed distance until a trail... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8083225 | Sheet stacking apparatus A banknote stacking apparatus includes a banknote stacking plate 1 on which banknotes are to be stacked, a first banknote press member 11 fixed to a support shaft 10 so as to be swingably together with the support shaft 10, a second bankn... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8070155 | Sheet aligning method and sheet post-processing apparatus including aligning device A sheet post-processing apparatus includes first rollers that convey a sheet, a waiting tray that includes a pair of sheet supporting units movable in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the sheet and on which the sheet conveyed via the first rollers ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7946576 | Document stacker with fault detection Techniques include sensing electric signals from an actuator during a document stacking operation and determining whether an abnormal event has occurred based on the sensed signals. The techniques may find particular applicability, for example, to document acceptors... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7845633 | Abnormal sheet delivery detection device An abnormal sheet delivery detection device includes a convey device, first pile device, noncontact-type detection unit, and first releasing unit. The convey device includes a sheet holding unit for holding a sheet, and conveys the sheet held by the sheet holding un... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7810804 | Printing system, control method thereof, and printing apparatus In order to maintain stackability while taking printing conditions into consideration, a control method for controlling a printing system for a stacking unit stacking a sheet printed by a printing unit, includes: determining whether or not a predetermined number of ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7744084 | Method and device for diverting flat objects In a transport method, a leading object is diverted from an initial direction to a target direction and transported and stopped by a guiding facility. If the following object has reached a specific position during transport in the initial direction, the guiding faci... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7726648 | Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively conveying paper sheets A sheet conveying device includes a first conveying path configured to pass a sheet of a recording medium (e.g., paper) therethrough to a sheet processing device, a second conveying path branched from the first conveying path and configured to temporarily store the ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7527260 | Closed loop scuffer for sheet handling This is a paper-handling system using a motor driven frictional drive element to push a paper sheet into a compiling tray. The tray has a registration wall where a paper sheet is abutted to align a paper stack. The system uses a sensor to convey relevant information... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7487964 | Sheet finisher for an image forming apparatus A sheet finishing apparatus for an image forming apparatus includes a discharging member configured to discharge recording media. A tray is configured to receive the discharged recording media. A rotatable moving member is configured to contact the discharged record... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7448615 | Sheet processing apparatus featuring relatively-displaced stapled sheet bundles and related method A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet conveyor for conveying sheets; a first loader for loading a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets conveyed by the sheet conveyor; a lateral aligner for aligning opposite side edges of the sheet bundle loaded on th... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7438289 | Sheet material stacking apparatus A sheet material stacking apparatus comprises a shift sensor configured to detect the sheet conveyed by a branching path, a drop-down checking sensor configured to detect that sheet which reaches a scraping-out plate through the rotation of a rotatable blade-type ru... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7370861 | Sheet holding apparatus and sheet transport apparatus equipped with the same A detection sensor detects a position of a level detection lever that touches an uppermost sheet of sheets stacked on a holding tray, and a computing device counts the number of sheets that have been discharged to the holding tray. A judging device judges the amount... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7357303 | Bill handling apparatus When using an inexpensive deposit box in a provided bill handling apparatus, bills that can be deposited are increased irrespective of a limit in the number of bills that can be stacked in the deposit box. In a bill handling apparatus including a bill deposit/withdr... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354034 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with same A sheet processing apparatus is provided with a processing tray on which sheets are to be stacked and subjected to a processing, a stack tray provided in the downstream of the processing tray with respect to the sheet conveying direction on which sheets are to be st... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7333224 | System and method for managing printed documents The present invention provides a system and method for managing printed documents. The method includes receiving a print request, assigning an identifier to a print job associated with the print request, and sending the print job to a printer for printing. Once the ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325918 | Print media transport assembly A printer of a type having a page width printhead includes opposed first and second platens. Spanning the space between the platens is a drive roller that is arranged to urge portions of print media supported by the first and second platens in opposite directions in... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318585 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus to reverse a sheet, includes a branched conveyance path branched from a connection point between an entry and conveyance path and a reversal and conveyance path provided downstream of the entry and conveyance path. When a sheet conveyor fe... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318586 | Method and device for stacking sheet material A spiral slot stacker has a two-part stripper 2 for stripping out sheet material from a stacker wheel 1. The two parts 2a, 2b of the stripper are movable. A first part 2a of the stripper is moved out of the sta... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7300052 | Sheet-shaped medium processing apparatus A sheet-shaped medium processing apparatus of the present invention is provided with a pair of arranging members 102a, 102b, and these arranging members 102a, 102b have both arranging function for arranging pap... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296791 | Image forming apparatus, sheet containing device, sheet inserting device, book-binding system, and sheet processing apparatus There is provided an image forming apparatus that is capable of preventing input errors and eliminating the necessity of complicated input operations in making settings for a sheet mixing operation in which color image output sheets and black-and-white image output ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7288059 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same A sheet processing apparatus includes a processing tray on which sheets are stacked in a bundle form, an intermediate portion stapler which staples the intermediate portion of the sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray, a sheet bundle conveying member which con... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7275743 | Multifunction output tray for printer and paper handling device A representative embodiment provides for an imaging apparatus including an output tray supported by the imaging apparatus and configured to receive sheet media from a first source and a second source, wherein the first source and the second source are respectively s... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273008 | Integrated installation and method for treating sheets of printed paper The invention concerns an installation comprising means controlling printing quality supplied by a printed sheet feeding device. Downstream, printing means print serial numbers and/or affix other elements. The quality of the number printing is controlled by a contro... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270324 | Sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet stacking apparatus including a sheet stacking tray for stacking sheets thereon, a first abutting member for abutting against the upper surface of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking tray, and a second abutting member for abutting the underside of the sh... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267338 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus ejects the sheet to witch image processing unit perform to an ejection tray or a staple stacker by a pair of ejection rollers and the like. A sheet path for guiding the sheet to the ejection rollers is opened and closed in conjunction w... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7258340 | Sheet registration within a media inverter Parallel printing systems and methods incorporate inverter assemblies for not only inverting media during transport through the system but also to register the media and to provide a velocity buffer transport with different drive velocities. The inverter assemblies ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255340 | Sheet stack ejecting apparatus, image forming apparatus, and sheet stack processing apparatus It is intended to provide a sheet stack ejecting apparatus, an image forming apparatus and a sheet stack processing apparatus applicable to ejection of a sheet stack while ejection errors are prevented by reducing disorderliness of ejected sheets of paper. A sheet e... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7255341 | Sheet handling apparatus In the bill handling apparatus 100, there are provided the bill validating unit 10 which judges whether the bill received from outside is valid or not, the stacker 1 which is detachable with the main unit 2 and receives the bill judged as... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7232122 | Jam detection method and system for an inserter A document assembly system with jam detection capability. The system including an accumulation chassis having a series of pusher fingers for pushing collations of documents. Above the chassis, document feeders release documents to the chassis to form the collations.... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7213807 | Stacker and method of batch separation with sheets There is disclosed an improved stacker, method of stacking sheets such as tags, and a stack of sheets. The stacker and the stacking method produces a stack of sheets, wherein same-size sheets are stacked so that the endmost sheet or sheets in one batch are offset or... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216014 | Paper money discriminating device The invention provides a paper money discriminating device which is simplified in structure and can be manufactured less expensively and therefore can contribute to cost reduction and productivity improvement. Thus, a first detecting member and a second detecting me... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212751 | Image forming apparatus To provide an image forming apparatus including: a discharge tray which can moves between a first position capable of loading a discharged sheet and a second position that is separated from the first position; and a sheet loading amount detection sensor which has a ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7210679 | Method for conveying sheets through a printing machine and apparatus for implementing the method A method for conveying sheets through a printing machine and an apparatus for conveying the sheets permit adaptation of a sheet brake to various sheet thicknesses by reducing a speed of the sheets in the direction of advance by bringing the sheets individually one a... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7210682 | Sheet distributor, image recorder, and a sheet distributing method The invention provides a sheet distributor and a sheet distributing method. The sheet distributor with which supplied sheets of a specified length are distributed to a plurality of lines of sheets, has a transport unit which keeps transporting each supplied sheet in... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7201370 | Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method A sheet direction inverting apparatus has a switchback portion for inverting the conveying direction of mails and the switchback portion has a drive roller and a driven roller. The length of mails sent to nips of the two rollers in the conveying direction is detecte... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201372 | Sheet accumulator systems and methods Sheet accumulator systems and methods are provided for forming a stack of under-accumulated sheets. The method can include advancing sheets in a predetermined sequence and under-accumulating a first portion of the advanced sheets in a first stack. The method can als... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7199323 | Postal sorting machine including an injection carousel fitted with flexible deflectors A postal sorting machine includes an injection carousel (1) and a system (4) for injecting mail items (3) standing on edge into receptacles (2) of the carousel (1). Each receptacle (2) of the carousel (1) is defined b... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188836 | Compact driving unit for an automatic banknote receiving and storing device A compact driving unit for an automatic banknote receiving and storing unit. The banknote receiving and storing unit includes a banknote accepting unit, a safe unit, a transporting unit for moving an accepted banknote to a position adjacent the safe unit, a translat... | 03/13/2007 |
