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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7556253 | Auto document feeder An auto document feeder cooperated with an image processing machine defines a feeding path and has a base, a frame and a sensor device. The base has a background under the feeding path. The frame is mounted on the base. The sensor couples with the frame and has a se... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7391043 | Self calibrating media edge sensor Various edge detection arrangements are disclosed, including an edge detection method and arrangement that utilizes outputs of commonly illuminated reference and edge sensors as the inputs for a comparator. The reference sensor is configured to have a wide field of ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7267339 | Overlapped-sheet detection apparatus An overlapped-sheet detection apparatus can detect whether sheets are overlapped and shift the same, if overlapped, for further processing. The overlapped-sheet detection apparatus is provided with conveying belts, forwarding and shifting rollers, motor and discrimi... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7222845 | Printer with a picker assembly A printer includes a support structure. A printing assembly is mounted on the support structure. The printing assembly includes a feed mechanism mounted on the support structure for feeding sheets of media along a feed path. At least one printhead is mounted on the ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7036811 | Registration system paper path length compensation Systems and methods of registration system control are provided that compensate for differences in physical properties of various substrates being transported through the system that impact the displacement of the substrate through a given path. Exemplary systems of... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039354 | Printer including recover printing control unit A printer includes a transport path, a processing unit, a plurality of transport abnormality detection, a transport page state judgment unit, and a recovery printing control unit. A paper is continuously transported along the transport path. The transport path is di... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6952536 | Transmissive optical sensing of leading edges of media sheets advanced substantially adjacent to one another A method of an embodiment of the invention is disclosed that advances media sheets through an image-forming device such that each successive pair of media sheets are advanced at least substantially adjacent to one another. The method transmissively optically senses ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6695301 | Method and system for feeding and transporting documents A system and method for feeding and transporting documents are provided. The system includes a feeder stage including a hopper, a feeder and a separator. The hopper includes a hopper wall extending toward the feeder with a waterfall step along the hopper ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6637740 | Loader of signatures or sheets for bookbindery feeder Loader of signatures or sheets with scale-shaped arrangement comprising a retractable plane (10) onto which a small stack (7) of signatures or sheets (3) is deposited, which is unloaded onto the plane (2') of a feeder (2) after the retractable plane (10) ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6632061 | Booklet maker with sheet wise trim A trimming apparatus for a booklet maker is described which provides a compact and low cost booklet maker for desktop publishing. The booklet maker includes a sheet receiving tray for receiving a stack of sheets to be stapled into a booklet, a stapler uni... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6529259 | Sheet supply device with quick reverse function and sheet process method A sheet supply device is formed of a sheet supply stacker, a supply path for guiding a sheet stacked on the sheet supply stacker, a sheet process portion situated in the supply path, and a switch-back path positioned on a downstream side of the sheet proc... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6286830 | Sheet material stacking device and image forming apparatus having same The present invention provides a sheet material stacking device comprising a sheet material discharging means for discharging a sheet material, a sheet material stacking means on which the sheet materials discharged by the sheet material discharging means... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6254078 | Automatic document feeder for an image forming apparatus An ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) for an image forming apparatus includes a drive roller and a driven roller constituting document send-out means located downstream of a contact glass for sending out a document. The driven roller is movable into and out ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6236450 | Document feeding method for automatic document feeder An image forming apparatus is provided with an automatic document feeder. Even if a document is jammed in the automatic document feeder, what is required of the user is to set all documents on a document tray once again, including the jammed document, doc... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6220590 | Hopper loader with a conveyer having slippage resistance The invention pertains to a hopper loader apparatus for separating and forming an overlapping shingled stream of individual signatures of sheet materials from a vertically aligned, parallelepiped shaped stack of such signatures for subsequent handling ope... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6179283 | Method for controlling an intermediate stacking device for flat shipments A method for controlling an intermediate stacking device for flat shipments, in particular in letter sorting facilities, comprising a stacking device (SR) on a movable stacking cart (SW), a bottom transporting belt (UB) on which the shipments are position... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6085065 | Image forming apparatus provided with a re-supply stacking means An image forming apparatus has a re-supply stacker for reversing a front surface and a rear surface of a sheet and temporarily stacking sheets so that a sheet having one surface on which an image was formed by an image forming unit is re-supplied to the i... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6032941 | Sheet conveying apparatus with internal control A sheet material conveying apparatus has a conveying path for directing sheet materials supported on a supporting portion one by one to an image processing position and also directing them to a discharging portion after the completion of image processing,... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6027108 | Sheet conveying apparatus The present invention relates to a sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet in recirculation. The apparatus comprises a feed tray, a feed mechanism, a recirculation conveying mechanism for conveying the sheet fed by the feed mechanism to return it ... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6024355 | Method and apparatus for controlling a buffer stock of flat objects For temporarily storing sheets, envelopes and the like, the objects are received one by one in a buffer apparatus and delivered one by one from that apparatus. For each object, a code associated with that object is determined, which code is stored in acco... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6017028 | Hopper loader having arced conveyor for forming an overlapping stream of signatures from a vertical stack The invention pertains to a hopper loader apparatus for separating and forming an overlapping shingled stream of individual signatures of sheet materials from a vertically aligned, parallelepiped shaped stack of such signatures for subsequent handling ope... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6017029 | Hopper loader for feeding vertical signatures to bindery equipment A hopper loader apparatus for transferring and separating individual signatures of sheet material from a vertically aligned, parallelepiped shaped stack of such signatures. The separated, individual signatures may then be subjected to handling operations ... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6010124 | Sheet conveying apparatus The preset invention relates to a sheet conveying apparatus equipped with a tray which couples feed port and discharge port to each other by a continuous surface. The tray comprises a first surface adjacent to the feed port for placing thereon sheets to b... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5992841 | Sheet conveying apparatus The present invention relates to a sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet in recirculation. The apparatus comprises a feed tray on which a plurality of sheets are set, a discharge tray on which the plurality of sheets are discharged, a feed mecha... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5988621 | Recycle document feeder A recycle document feeder according to the present invention includes a pair of document width regulating guides (9a, 9b) for guiding opposite edges of document originals (D) fed back onto a document placing plate (8) for alignment thereof with respect to... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5946527 | Image processing of different sizes of document sheets in an electronic imaging system In a document feeding and imaging system with a document input tray for sequentially feeding a set of plural document sheets to a document imaging station to be respectively imaged with variable image processing conditions dependent on the size of the doc... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5931454 | Recycle document feeder A recycle document feeder according to the present invention includes a cover (251) covering a document discharge portion (30). The cover (251) is openably supported by a pivot shaft (256) between a pair of frames (255). A feed-back path (32) for guiding ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5806843 | Multi tray and buffer tray misfeed detector with voltage response adjustment The sheets in each tray of a multi tray sheet feeder are of the same thickness, but the sheets in one tray may be of a different thickness than the sheets in another tray. The sheets are fed from each sheet feeder tray to an intermediate stacker and then ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5784179 | Image forming apparatus for selecting stacking means for stacking sheet formed with input image in accordance with attribute of input image A facsimile apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming a received image onto a sheet, a judging unit for judging an attribute of the received image, a plurality of bins each for stacking the sheet on which the image was formed by the image formi... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5775683 | Method for transporting handling sheets Method for transporting/handling sheets along at least one transport/handling segment in a machine includes supplying sheets to and removing sheets from the machine, the transport/handling segment having a period length for successive sheets which is depe... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5769407 | Misfeed detector with voltage response adjustment A sheet feed sensor is designed to have a first given voltage response condition for sensing sheets within a first range of paper weight values and a second given voltage response condition for sensing sheets within a second range of paper weight values. ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5761567 | Image forming apparatus with jam detection for permitting completion of a copy operation An image forming apparatus is provided with a document feeder for feeding a document to an image scanning portion for scanning an image of the document, a document jam detector for detecting a jam of the document in the document feeder, and a controller f... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5629763 | Original transporting device capable of effecting exposure while transporting the original An original transporting device for transporting an original to an exposure unit of a copying machine which includes a loading tray for loading the originals, a first separation unit, a first transporting unit, a second separation unit, a second transport... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5584472 | Method and apparatus for controlling a buffer stock of flat objects For temporarily storing sheets, envelopes and the like, the objects are received one by one in a buffer apparatus and delivered one by one from that apparatus. For each object, a code associated with that object is determined, which code is stored in acco... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5575463 | Method and device for handling sheets which are provided with information in a laser printer The present invention relates to a method and a device for handling sheets (3) which are provided with information in a laser printer (4) and fed to a sorting device (5) for being sorted. In this method, in the laser printer (4), sheets (3) provided with ... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5518121 | Method for automated mail extraction and remittance processing In a method for the automated processing of bulk mail, envelopes are transferred to a receiving apparatus in bulk fashion (from incoming mail trays or the like) for the extraction of documents contained by the envelopes, and the extracted documents are de... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5503382 | Misfeed detector for multi-tray and intermediate tray sheet feeders The thickness of a first sheet fed from each tray of the multi-tray sheet feeder is detected by a first sensor and a thickness value is placed in memory for that tray. Each sheet subsequently fed from the same tray is detected by the same sensor and the t... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5499805 | Paper sheet storing apparatus A paper sheet storing apparatus includes a stacking section for storing paper sheets in a stack in a predetermined direction. In the stacking section are provided a movable shutter for receiving and supporting paper sheets which are taken in the stacking ... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5499804 | Paper conveying device and paper conveying method A paper conveying device for overrunning paper from a stop position and then, switching the paper back to stop the paper in a stop position. The driving of a paper conveying section for conveying paper is stopped at the time point where the rear end of th... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5472182 | Feeder mechanism for a portable image scanner A document feeder which can be coupled to a motorized, portable optical scanner to feed documents across the scanner window of the scanner, including a housing with a support surface and an opposite offset platform surface which together form a slit throu... | 12/05/1995 |
