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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8146916 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus Positioning in the width direction of a sheet is performed by a skew correcting unit which is provided on a re-conveying path for reversing the sheet and conveying it again to an image forming unit and which has a reference surface that is come into contact with a s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8123218 | Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus A skew roller is disposed near an abutment reference member. A pre-skew roller is disposed on the upstream side of the skew roller at a position corresponding to a conveyance center line. When a sheet conveyed by a pre-registration conveyance roller reaches the skew... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7905483 | Transport device and image forming apparatus A transport device includes: a positioning member provided in a sheet transport path, used for positioning of a print sheet in a direction orthogonal to a sheet transport direction; and a skewed roller that transports the print sheet while skewing the print sheet to... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7900914 | Sheet conveyance apparatus having skew conveyance mechanism with sheet deforming unit and image forming apparatus including the same A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a reference surface extending along a sheet conveyance direction and configured to regulate the position of a side edge of a sheet to be conveyed, a skew conveyance mechanism configured to convey the sheet obliquely so that the ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7686300 | Driving device A sheet processing apparatus is disclosed which is capable of preventing a motor from losing synchronization when initializing a roller position at power-up time, even if a diagonal feed mechanism does not have a sensor for detecting a position of a diagonal feed ro... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7658379 | Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus A skew roller is disposed near an abutment reference member. A pre-skew roller is disposed on the upstream side of the skew roller at a position corresponding to a conveyance center line. When a sheet conveyed by a pre-registration conveyance roller reaches the skew... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7641191 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus An oblique feeding roller and a reference guide are provided on a re-conveying path for conveying a sheet in which an image has been formed on one side by an image forming unit to the image forming unit again. The sheet is obliquely fed by the oblique feeding roller... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7571908 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus Positioning in the width direction of a sheet is performed by a skew correcting unit which is provided on a re-conveying path for reversing the sheet and conveying it again to an image forming unit and which has a reference surface that is come into contact with a s... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7537211 | Media transportation mechanism and a data processing apparatus having a media transportation mechanism A media transportation mechanism comprising a first transportation roller pair and second transportation roller pair disposed in the transportation path on the upstream and downstream sides, respectively, of image scanners convey a slip over a sliding guide surface.... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7441772 | Sheet-conveying device A sheet-conveying device includes a sheet conveying path along which a sheet is conveyed, a conveying roller, an inclined roller, an inclined-roller-supporting member that supports the inclined roller such that the inclined roller can rotate around a rotational axis... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7416183 | Postal weighing platform with integrated feeding and deskewing functions The present invention includes apparatus and methods for handling mailpieces. A mailpiece handling device includes a substantially horizontal deck for receiving a mailpiece. The device also includes a substantially vertical registration wall that extends upwardly fr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7374164 | Configuration for the transport and simultaneous alignment of sheets A configuration for the transport and simultaneous alignment of sheets has a straightedge, at least one conveyor belt disposed slightly at an angle to the straightedge in the direction of movement of the sheets, and an air suction device. The conveyor belt exhibits ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372593 | Inkjet printhead capping mechanism An inkjet printhead capping mechanism includes an arm arranged to rotate about a pivot point. A capping assembly is located on one end of the arm whereas a slip wheel is located at the other with the pivot point being located between the two. The slip wheel is perio... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7347418 | Method and apparatus for overlapping sheets in a sheet feeder and providing the overlapped sheets to a printing press The present invention is directed to a sheet feeding apparatus and method. In particular this invention comprises a sheet feeding apparatus having a first conveyance member, a second conveyance member, and a sheet bending member. The first conveyance member conveys ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7319842 | Pivotal sheet conveying apparatus for skew correction and image forming apparatus To provide a sheet conveying apparatus capable of enhancing an accuracy of correcting a skew of a sheet, and of preventing position shift of a sheet. The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet by a sheet conveying unit disposed ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7306221 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus with a skew feed correcting device including a first guide supporting one side edge of the sheet, an aligning device provided in the first guide and having an abutment portion and a first roller pair for causing the sheet to abut the abut... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7258500 | Media processing apparatus and scanner unit The media processing apparatus has a first transportation path for guiding the check, a second transportation path and a third transportation path that diverge from the first transportation path, a front scanner that is rendered along the first transportation path f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7201369 | Vertical justification system A device and system for registering or justifying product such as mail pieces in a vertical position for future processing of such mail pieces. The system includes a mounting block having an angled bore and a driven alignment mechanism mounted within the angled bore... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7147223 | Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus including the sheet conveying device A sheet conveying device includes a drive roller having a shaft, a driven roller having a shaft, a biasing member that rotatably supports one of the drive roller and the driven roller and biases one of the drive roller and the driven roller against the other one of ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7136195 | Fluid capping mechanism When a printhead is not in use, it remains filled with ink. In order to prevent evaporation of the ink through the nozzles of the printhead, and the consequential depositing of ink components in and around the ink nozzles, the invention provides capping of the nozzl... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7066462 | Method of and apparatus for stacking sheets of paper and the like A stream of successive sheets of paper, foil or the like is converted into a series of piles at a stacking station where successive sheets are caused to descend onto a pallet which is adjacent a monitoring device serving to transmit signals denoting the levels of su... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063015 | Sheet support for printing press A sheet support bridging a pair of parallel longitudinally extending and transversely spaced guides has a stack of substantially identical and transversely extending support elements having transversely opposite ends slidable along the guides and a flexible connecti... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7014189 | Alignment disk for document validator An apparatus is provided for processing a document traveling along a document path within a document validator. The such apparatus includes a disk where a periphery of the disk extends into the document path of the document validator, a support shaft that passes thr... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6986510 | Offsetting discharging apparatus with aligning member An offsetting discharging apparatus with aligning member or a sheet discharge apparatus is provided with a sheet discharge device for discharging sheets, a storage device for receiving the sheets discharged from the discharge device, and an alignment reference membe... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6969065 | Sheet transfer apparatus and sheet supply apparatus A sheet transport apparatus includes the first transport rollers, the second transport rollers arranged at downstream of the first transport rollers to receive a sheet transported from the first transport rollers, a spacing device for setting the first transport rol... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6959526 | Inserter station for mail processing systems Disclosed is an inserter station for mail processing systems, consisting of a feeder device (2) for transporting inserts, an envelope separation device for separating envelopes from a stack of envelopes, also comprising a mail transport device (6) whic... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6942214 | Mail registration and feeding apparatus This invention concerns a feeding and advancing apparatus in a document processing machine for aligning and registering flat articles against a registration wall. The articles are advanced through a first feeding apparatus that pushes them towards a registration wal... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6918733 | Hold down clamp for holding down sheet material A hold down clamp for holding down a stack of sheet material, preferably on a transportation trolley selectively in operative association with a printing machine. The hold down clamp has a vertically adjustable holding arm selectively lockable along a substantially ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6886828 | Sheet finishing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same A sheet finishing apparatus is provided with a discharge device for discharging a sheet; a support device arranged below the discharge device; a storage device arranged below the support device; an aligning device having a reference member as a reference to align th... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6877741 | Method and apparatus for aligning a banknote Manually-insert banknotes are aligned by using a fan to reduce the air pressure above a banknote so that it is pulled into engagement with a drive means which drives the edge of the banknote to a guide, causing the banknote to rotate until the edge is aligned with t... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6840514 | Media alignment mechanism A media alignment mechanism of a printer having duplex capabilities has two spaced elements (33, 34) defining a predetermined return feed path. Two reference edge segments (50, 61) are disposed between the spaced elements and separated from each other ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6837492 | Universal deskew feeder for a mailing machine The present invention includes a deskew mechanism for a mailing machine. The deskew mechanism includes a horizontal feed deck and a vertical registration wall. A roller is mounted for rotation and located spaced from the registration wall so as to extend upwardly fr... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6715755 | Deterministic aligner for an output inserter system A system and method for performing a right angle transfer and for aligning stuffed envelopes in a high speed mail processing inserter system, whereby unwanted timing variation in the aligning process is lessened by using a moving vertical aligning belt as the aligni... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6460844 | Cut sheet streamer and merger An apparatus for selectively streaming and merging side-by-side sheets is provided. In general, sheets enter in a side-by-side orientation onto an input feed surface and are directed selectively upwardly or downwardly onto overlying upper and lower feed s... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6402139 | Sheet material feeder with guides and lateral position adjusting means A sheet material feeder and an image forming apparatus in which, even when a sheet of thick paper is transported through a sharply curved sheet material guide, the sheet can be adjusted to a lateral registry position. A base plate, a movable lower guide a... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6324377 | Image forming apparatus, paper bundling apparatus, and paper bundling method using image forming apparatus An image forming and paper bundling device and method for bundling the paper that is able to accurately correct the skew of a paper sheet independent of the shape or cutting accuracy of the paper sheet. The image forming apparatus includes an image formin... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6308949 | Material-feeding device having direction-correcting function A material-feeding device (14) includes a base (52), a material passage (54) formed on the base, at least one guide member (56, 58) provided in the material passage and having a material-guide surface (56a, 58a), a direction-correcting roller assembly (60... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6273418 | Sheet registration device and an image forming apparatus having the same A sheet registration device includes: sheet transporting means for transporting a sheet in a transport direction thereof; a sheet positioning member which is disposed in a side of a sheet transport path and in parallel with the transport direction; latera... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6164643 | Lateral paper position correcting mechanism A paper path is provided with a paper guide for guiding paper, an oblique roller for obliquely moving the paper toward the paper guide and an electromagnetic clutch allowing and interrupting transmission of a rotating force to the oblique roller. Sensors ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6055409 | Sheet pre-transfer device A pretransfer sheet feeding device for an electrophotographic printing machine that minimizes impact with and delivers a sheet to a photoreceptor at a desired tangential position. The sheet feeding device includes a selectively engageable drive nip and a ... | 04/25/2000 |
