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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157259 | Movable tray drive control device and movable tray drive control method According to an embodiment, a drive control unit which drive-controls a movable tray on which a sheet discharged from a predetermined sheet discharge port is stacked, in such a manner that the movable tray sequentially descends according to a sheet discharge operati... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8128085 | Sheet ejecting device A sheet ejecting device having a pair of ejection rollers, a strengthener provided in a sheet ejection route, a tray for receiving ejected sheets and a driver for lifting up and down the tray. A sheet is ejected via the ejection rollers while being strengthened by t... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8096550 | Paper-out mechanism for printing apparatus A paper-out mechanism includes a paper out wall and a paper out board. The paper out wall defines a paper out opening. The paper out opening includes a first edge and a second edge facing to the first edge. The paper out board is slidably mounted on the paper out wa... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8033543 | Sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a sheet stacking apparatus including a tray on which sheets are stacked, and an aligning member aligning the sheets stacked on the tray. The aligning member aligns sheets stacked, on a sheet previously stacked on the tray, with a displ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028989 | Paper stacking apparatus A bottom surface of a stacking and accommodating portion is structured such as to be sloped to be lower in accordance with moving away from a paper carry-in side, and a push plate is controlled so as to be moved in a direction moving close to a carry-in port of the ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7997577 | Pivoting sheet discharging tray and image forming apparatus including the tray An image forming apparatus including a sheet loader, the sheet loader including: a discharger configured to discharge a first sheet and a second sheet after the first sheet; a tray configured to support the second sheet on the first sheet; a support configured to su... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7997578 | Recording apparatus with removable stacker A recording apparatus has a stacker that receives a discharged recording medium. An engagement mechanism removably attaches the stacker to a discharge section of the apparatus and includes a first engagement portion provided in the discharge section; a second engage... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7976020 | Recording apparatus There is provided a recording apparatus capable of bringing a delivery tray to an open state automatically when a sheet material is conveyed without the need for a solenoid to open the delivery tray, and preventing the delivery tray from opening inadvertently except... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971875 | Sheet accumulation apparatus and image formation apparatus including the apparatus A sheet accumulation apparatus includes a tray moving device elevatably provided at an apparatus frame and having a fork member; a tray device detachably attached to the fork member; a driving device for elevating the tray moving device; and a carrier device having ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7963524 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus to form an image on a sheet of recording media includes a discharge port formed in an upper portion of a main body of the image forming apparatus and exposed from above, a discharge portion to which the sheet is discharged, disposed downst... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963523 | Sheet stacking apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus The present invention provides a sheet stacking apparatus, whose lifting and lowering mechanism having excellent assembly properties and maintenance properties. A sheet stacking apparatus includes: a stacking portion which stacks a discharged sheet thereon; a... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7922172 | Paper stacking apparatus A bottom surface of a stacking and accommodating portion is structured such as to be sloped to be lower in accordance with moving away from a paper carry-in side, and a push plate is controlled so as to be moved in a direction moving close to a carry-in port of the ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7905482 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes a discharging roller for discharging, from a main assembly of the apparatus, a recording material having been subjected to a recording operation by recording means; an openable and closable sheet discharge tray for supporting the recor... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7857306 | Medium stacker apparatus A medium stacker apparatus comprising a stacking portion for stacking a medium discharged from a delivery section formed at an upper portion of an apparatus housing, has a top cover which can be open and closed with respect to the apparatus housing, and a part of sa... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7832725 | Paper sheet stacking apparatus and paper sheet post processing apparatus There is described a paper sheet post processing apparatus that includes a paper sheet stacking apparatus in which the paper sheet stacking operation can be smoothly and stably conducted during a high-speed post processing of paper sheets. The paper sheet stacking a... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7766324 | Sheet stacking apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming system A sheet stacking apparatus having: a sheet discharge tray to move upward and downward; an alignment section including first and second regulating members to align a side edge of a sheet on the tray; a first drive section for moving the tray upward or downward; a sec... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7631865 | Medium guide elevating device, recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus A medium guide elevating device includes a rotor, a medium guide unit, a sensor, a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion. The rotor is driven in forward rotation or in reverse rotation. The medium guide unit is moved to a first position when the rotor... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7584958 | Document stack leveling method, and a document finisher including the same A document finisher is arranged for forming a document stack whose top surface is maintained substantially level. The document finisher includes a document stack leveling container for containing a document stack of one or more documents. Each document has a documen... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7556263 | Paper stacking apparatus A bottom surface of a stacking and accommodating portion is structured such as to be sloped to be lower in accordance with moving away from a paper carry-in side, and a push plate is controlled so as to be moved in a direction moving close to a carry-in port of the ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7547015 | Image forming apparatus having stopper An image forming apparatus has an image forming part forming an image on paper, and a housing accommodating the image forming part and having a paper stack part stacking paper discharged from the image forming part, and the image forming apparatus includes an accomm... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7448619 | 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... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7441771 | Sheet-like medium alignment apparatus To ensure that the leading edge of the sheet ejected onto a tray 12 does not push and move loaded sheets in advance, loaded sheets are retained at position (II) by a retaining roller. A roller (returning roller in this case) 121 for applying external f... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438287 | Mechanical device for receiving documents A device for receiving documents is described and in one example, a device for stacking media in a mail creation inserter system is described including at least one document support member (30), adapted to receive documents and to be moved along a longitudina... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7431288 | Print media flipping mechanism and method Apparatus for delivering a sheet to a surface, comprising a rotating gripper that receives and grips the sheet at or near a leading edge thereof at a first position and delivers the leading edge to a second position, the first and second positions being situated alo... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7410164 | Discharging device and ink jet printer When a print process is started, discharge speed of recording papers is first set to a first discharge speed set based on the case in which a recording paper receiving unit for placing recording papers is in a reference state. Then, when a record instruction is give... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7401775 | Apparatus for aligning sheets which are deposited on a sheet stack In an apparatus for aligning sheets that are deposited on a sheet stack, there are sheet leading edge stops disposed so as to be vertically displaceable by a common leading edge shaft. An auxiliary stack carrier that is to be introduced into the stack region for non... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398971 | Recording apparatus A sheet feed tray is openably/closably (or foldably) attached to the main body of a recording apparatus, and a separator, which separates recorded media to be discharged above the sheet feed tray from unrecorded media loaded on the sheet feed tray, is provided so as... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398968 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes a housing having a cavity therein, a linkage arm disposed within the cavity, an input media tray movably latched to the housing, and an input media tray latch coupled to the linkage arm and releasably engaged with the input media tray. ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392982 | Accumulator for sheet handling apparatus A sheet feeder for feeding sheets one-at-a-time along a path having: a feeder/separator for engaging the sheets and feeding them one-at-a-time along the path whilst remaining sheets not being fed along the path are halted by the separator; and a clearance mechanism ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7384038 | Sheet transport device A sheet transport device according to this invention is provided with: a sheet tray on which a sheet to be transported is placed; a device main body provided with a transport path led from the sheet tray to a discharge outlet; a transport mechanism for transporting ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380786 | Sheet-like medium alignment apparatus To ensure that the leading edge of the sheet ejected onto a tray 12 does not push and move loaded sheets in advance, loaded sheets are retained at position (II) by a retaining roller. A roller (returning roller in this case) 121 for applying external f... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380784 | Paper sheet accumulating/feeding apparatus A paper sheet accumulating/feeding apparatus to execute an accumulating processing, in which paper sheets conveyed by a conveyance unit are accumulated in an accumulating unit in a direction of accumulation, and a feeding processing, in which paper sheets accumulate... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7347335 | Pusher assembly, merchandise dispenser and method of dispensing merchandise A spring-driven pusher assembly of a merchandise dispenser in which the spring is carried entirely on the pusher assembly behind the articles being dispensed to thereby eliminate any interference problems with RF signals or the like used for purposes of determining ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344134 | Large envelope on-edge stacking conveyor A stacking apparatus for stacking a plurality of flat articles on edge is provided that receives articles in an article receiver that includes a stop wall to receive the front edge of each article and stop horizontal motion of the article and a rotatable segmented r... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341249 | Sheet holding apparatus and image forming system A sheet holding apparatus having: a feeding mechanism to feed a sheet on which an image is formed by an image forming apparatus, from a predetermined feeding position; a tray section having a tray to contain the sheet fed through the feeding mechanism; an initializa... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7306220 | Movable sheet guide An accumulator apparatus for paper collations having an accumulation chamber for receiving sheet material, the chamber defined by a fixed guide on one side, a movable guide on the other side and a movable stop member at one end. Rollers are included for driving the ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7306217 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus comprises a paper feed tray, which is attached to the apparatus body so as to be freely opened and closed with respect to the apparatus body, and a paper pressing plate disposed inside the apparatus body. The paper feed tray has a pair of ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303190 | Recording apparatus including automatic feeding mechanism and automatic feeding mechanism A recording apparatus including an automatic feeding mechanism for picking up one of recording media placed on a feed tray one by one and feeding the recording medium is provided. The automatic feeding mechanism includes: the feed tray on which a predetermined numbe... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7293735 | Roll storage system for guiding sheet members A roll storage system for guiding a number of sheet members. The roll storage system includes a housing that encloses a supply roll and a storage roll. The supply and storage roll are rotatably mounted for guiding a storage film between them. A guide member is also ... | 11/13/2007 |
