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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8376360 | Sheet stacking apparatus and sheet stacking control method A sheet stacking apparatus including first and second stacking trays configured to stack sheets, a detection unit configured to detect a sheet stacking amount on the first stacking tray, a setting unit configured to set an upper limit on stacking amount for controll... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8360428 | Print control apparatus and print control method When printing is to be executed on the basis of an input print job, and a group of sheets having undergone the printing on the basis of the input print job are discharged to a first one of multiple discharging destinations, the first discharging destination is switc... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8167308 | 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... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8096553 | Sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet stacking apparatus includes a gripper configured to discharge a sheet, a plurality of stacker trays arranged in a row and configured to stack the discharged sheet, and a guiding unit configured to guide the discharged sheet to a predetermined position. The p... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8047543 | Printing system, control method, and computer-readable storage medium A method for controlling a printing system includes stacking a sheet printed by executing a job on a stacking unit provided inside a stacker, the stacker including a door that can be opened and closed, opening the door in a case where a predetermined instruction is ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042808 | Image forming system and paper sheet output method The image forming system includes: a first transporting unit transporting paper sheets along a first transportation route; an image forming unit forming images on the paper sheets; a sheet supplying unit having a second transportation route, and transporting a sheet... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8038152 | Sheet conveyance relay unit and image forming system using the same unit A sheet conveyance relay unit, including: a convergence unit, including: a convergence section to converge sheet conveyance paths of plural sheet receiving sections; and a first common sheet-conveyance section, which conveys the recording sheets from the convergence... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7992871 | Device for changing the direction of movement of sheet-type products A transport apparatus for transporting flat, rectangular sheet material, in particular sheet-shaped value documents such as bank notes, comprises a distributing element reciprocating between at least two positions, or at least two distributing elements reciprocating... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7837196 | Connection apparatus for connecting image forming apparatus and sheet post-processing apparatus There is provided a connection apparatus for connecting an image forming apparatus and a plurality of sheet post-processing apparatuses. This connection apparatus has a flapper portion for switching a plurality of conveying paths going toward the plurality of sheet ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7823881 | Method and delivery for a sheet-processing machine A method of depositing sheets coming out of a sheet-processing machine includes decelerating the sheets and depositing the sheets of a main pile. Certain sheets are decelerated and fed to a second sheet pile. The system includes a device for decelerating the sheets ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7770890 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image on a fed document is read, and recording paper on which an output image is formed based on the read image is discharged onto a first tray. When overlapped feeding is detected at the time of feeding a document, page numbers of the overlapped documents are re... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7708275 | Paper materials sorting apparatus A paper materials sorting apparatus that includes note denomination discriminating mechanism for discriminating the paper materials based on note denominations of the paper materials, cassette assignment mechanism for assigning each of a plurality of wrapping device... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7681883 | Diverter assembly, printing system and method A diverter assembly includes at least one rotary member disposed along a media transport pathway adjacent a diversion point therealong. The diverter assembly also includes a rotational motion source in operative association with the at least one rotary member. A pri... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7651092 | Printing system and control method thereof An object of this invention is to provide a convenient printing system applicable not only to the office environment but also to the POD environment. To accomplish this, a printing system capable of supplying a print medium to a printing apparatus from a plurality o... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7441774 | Sheet conveying apparatus There is provided a sheet conveying apparatus which is capable of easily distinguishing between a sheet bundle containing abnormal sheets, such as multi-fed sheets, and a normal sheet bundle. When it is determined that there is no abnormality in the conveyance of sh... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7422118 | Equipment for the automatic deposit of banknotes An equipment (22) for the automatic deposit of banknotes (23) comprising a transaction port (33) for receiving a stack (24) of banknotes, a separating device (36) for separating the constituting sheets of the stack (24), a v... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7398048 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including: a first driven roller that forms a first nip portion with a driving roller; a second driven roller that forms a second nip portion with the driving roller at a downstream side of the first nip portion; a first transfer passage i... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7377511 | Sheet stacking apparatus A sheet stacking apparatus including a first tray on which sheets discharged form an outlet are stacked, the first tray being movable between a stacking position at which sheets discharged from an outlet are stacked and a first retracted position above the staking p... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7355738 | Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus When a user registers a type and a condition of image formation by a terminal, the terminal determines a reservation number specific to contents of the registration, and the determined reservation number is displayed on the display of the terminal. The user watches ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7328892 | Binding apparatus, paper processing apparatus and image forming system A paper processing apparatus according to one or more embodiments includes a first and second convey mechanism, a first and second alignment mechanism, and a folding mechanism, where the second alignment mechanism is configured to align a paper bundle conveyed by th... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7322574 | Separator sheet handling assembly The present invention is embodied in a separator sheet handling assembly 10 that includes a lifting assembly 20 adapted to receive a pallet 12 containing a stack of separator sheets 14. The lifting assembly 20 positions the stack o... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7317545 | Image forming apparatus for changing an image formation level An image forming apparatus can continue an execution of a job without canceling when an error occurs during an image forming operation. ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7281708 | Sheet handling apparatus and image forming apparatus When the rear end of a sheet bundle S is brought to reach the clamping portion between a rocking roller and a rear end aligning wall by conveyance means, the individual timings, at which the rocking roller and the rear end aligning wall move to the escape position, ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280781 | Override of stack limit settings A user interface is provided for a printer having a finishing device having a maximum physical sheet capacity and being operable at an operational sheet capacity equal to or less than the maximum physical sheet capacity, a marking device which applies marks to sheet... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7249759 | Sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus including a stacking portion for stacking a plurality of sheets thereon, a sheet feeding portion for feeding the sheets stacked on the stacking portion, a fan for sending air to the sheets to loosen the sheets stacked on the stacking portio... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251047 | Virtual media tray A virtual media tray causes a print device to perform one or more operations in response to a request to print a document. The operations may include storing, emailing, or faxing a copy of the document to another location. The operations may also include adding text... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245845 | Printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and printing system An apparatus for executing a printing process on the basis of a print job from an external apparatus, comprises a post-processing unit which can apply post-processing for printed paper sheets using paper sheets prepared independently of the printed paper sheets; a d... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7232126 | Over the raceway divert device, system and method for diverting suspect documents The present subject matter relates to the field of document material handling in high-speed in-line mailing systems. In particular, the present subject matter relates to a cross track divert device, system and method for diverting a suspect or invalid document from ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231171 | Image copying apparatus and image copying method The image copying apparatus of the present invention comprises a document drawing-in port for drawing an original document before reading operation in and a document discharging port for discharging the original document after reading operation, and copies images of... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7215921 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, such as a printer, having a frame member, wherein there is provided, inside the frame member and on the upstream side of a sheet discharging portion with respect to the sheet conveying direction, a buffering device equipped with a rotary ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210681 | Paper discharge unit and printing apparatus employing the paper discharge unit A printer having a plurality of printing engines that eject papers to a common chute box is provided, wherein papers are discharged in an aligned state, even in the case that papers of different sizes are ejected. Papers of different sizes are inserted through slots... | 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 |
| 7201368 | Sheet finisher and control method thereof A sheet finisher includes: a sheet stacker for stacking sheets outputted from an image forming apparatus to form a sheet bundle; a binder for binding the sheet bundle stacked on the sheet stacker; an ejection device for ejecting out of the sheet finisher at least on... | 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 |
| 7200748 | E-mail printer and e-mail printing method having authentication procedure An e-mail printer having an authentication procedure includes an e-mail receiving unit that includes a storage device to store e-mail which is received in a predetermined memory area allocated to each user and an authentication device to authenticate the user so tha... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7195411 | Recording apparatus with mechanism for ejecting recording medium A printer includes: a recording section for recording information on a recording medium; a medium carrying mechanism provided in an apparatus casing having an eject port that is opened in an upward direction or in a slanted upward direction; a medium accommodating s... | 03/27/2007 |
