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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8002264 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder (ADF), which is capable of feeding a document for double-sided reading, includes an input tray, an output tray, which are vertically arranged, a U-shaped document feed path, which is made up of an upper portion, a curved portion, and a l... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7963518 | Printing system inverter apparatus and method A media sheet inverter apparatus and method is disclosed. The media sheet inverter, according to one embodiment of the disclosure, comprises an input nip configured to receive a media sheet and a reversing roll nip configured to receive a media sheet from the input ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7954806 | Medium reversing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image reading apparatus A medium reversing apparatus, an image forming apparatus and an image reading apparatus that respectively have the medium reversing apparatus are supplied capable of avoiding medium damage and medium load abnormality. In the medium reversing apparatus that conveys a... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7726644 | Paper sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus There is described a paper sheet conveyance apparatus and an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible not only to achieve the minimization and the cost reduction of the apparatus; but also to achieve the high-speed conveyance operation of the paper sheet wit... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7694953 | Sheets processing apparatus A sheets processing apparatus includes a first processing portion having a first switchback portion for reversing the conveying direction of postal matter branched and conveyed from a main conveying path and a first U-turn path for reversing the front and back of th... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7661667 | Conveyor belt, sheet feeding device, and image forming apparatus including the sheet feeding device A sheet feeding device includes a conveyor belt having a first row of a plurality of convex portions intermittently arranged on an inner circumferential surface of the conveyor belt in a sheet conveying direction. The sheet feeding device further includes a pluralit... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7431282 | Document inverting-and-transporting apparatus A document inverting-and-transporting apparatus includes a transport path, an inversion-and-transport path, a document transporting unit, a closed portion, a document length detecting unit, a comparing unit, a controlling unit. The transport path includes a first ro... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7416185 | Inverter with return/bypass paper path A printing system and method is provided incorporating inverter assemblies for not only selectively inverting media during transport through the system but also to register the media and provide a velocity buffer transport. The selective inverter assemblies include ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416179 | Card-flipping device for use in card printers A card-flipping device for a card printing apparatus is provided. The card-flipping device comprises a card-carrier unit for transporting the card in a vertical direction, a motor drive means for moving the unit in the vertical direction, and an actuator assembly in... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7410163 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image reading apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a first path through which a sheet passes; a switchback member that switches back the sheet passing through the first path and conveys the sheet; a second path through which the sheet switched back and conveyed by the switchback... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7398972 | Plastic card reorienting mechanism and interchangeable input hopper A card reorienting mechanism and an input hopper of plastic card processing equipment, for example a desktop plastic card printer. The card reorienting mechanism is a modular unit that permits the entire mechanism to be inserted or removed as a single unit from the ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7367667 | Image forming apparatus with conveying part arranged to allow drying An image forming apparatus has a recording head forming an image on paper by jetting ink, a conveying part conveying the paper to a position opposite to said recording head, and a reversing ejection part provided downstream in a paper conveyance direction with respe... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360636 | Alternate package flip-over device An alternate package flip-over device includes an intermittently operable primary conveyor feeding batches of packages to a continuously operating secondary conveyor, and a flap for routing the batches to either a flip-over mechanism or to an intermediate transfer c... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7328898 | Image forming apparatus including timing determination unit, and corresponding sheet feeding method An image forming apparatus including a drive unit that drives a drive control unit that supplies a first drive current to the drive unit so as to acceleratingly drive an intermediate feeding roller, and supplies a current that is smaller than the first drive current... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7306218 | Document transport apparatus and document transport method, and image reading apparatus A document transport apparatus includes a sheet feeding device for feeding a document from a sheet feeding tray; a transport device for receiving the document from the sheet feeding device and transporting the document to a predetermined position on a platen of an i... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7267501 | Image forming apparatus having a pickup roller for driving a discharge roller An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that prints an image on a medium. A transport unit transports the medium in a first direction to supply the medium to the image forming unit, and in a second direction for printing. Media is stacked on a pape... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7233755 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus which reduces abrasion of a photosensitive drum caused by a rotary brush such as an charging brush for electrically charging the surface of a photosensitive drum or a cleaning brush for cleaning the surface of a photosensitive drum. The ro... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7226050 | Discharge sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same A sheet post-treating apparatus is provided with a discharged sheet stacking tray displaceably provided in a casing portion for stacking thereon sheets discharged from the casing portion, and a holding portion for holding the discharged sheet stacking tray in a firs... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222847 | Feeding apparatus and recording apparatus having the same The feeding apparatus includes a pressure plate cam gear which contacts and separates a pressure plate with and from a feeding roller rubber in a forward rotation of a stepping motor, then interrupts the drive power transmission to the pressure plate, then transmits... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222955 | Both-side recording apparatus The recording paper is transported to a paper inversion unit in such a manner that, when recording of a first surface of a recording paper is performed, the recording paper is transported to a position where a rear end of the recording paper is released from a pair ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7192022 | Apparatus for reversing a sheet An apparatus for reversing a sheet, such as a banknote, from a front face to a rear face. In the reversing apparatus a first end of a common path communicates with an exit of a first conveyance path, a second end of common path communicates with an exit of a second ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7168701 | Paper transporting apparatus A paper-transporting apparatus is used for transporting recording paper. A paper-transporting device is movable between a loading position where the paper-transporting unit has been completely attached into a chassis and an unloading position where the paper-transpo... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165766 | Sheet feeding cassette and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding cassette is configured so as to be able to be attached to and removed from an image forming apparatus main body having an image forming section and is equipped with a box-shaped accommodation portion capable of accommodating a plurality of sheets. A ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7151622 | Image reading and recording apparatus An image reading and recording apparatus is provided with a carriage having the drive switching gear, which transmits driving power to a reading drive gear train only in a drive switching position. Then, when a reading command is issued, the carriage moves to this d... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7142805 | Manual feeding tray and image forming apparatus Image forming apparatus having a manual feeding tray on which transfer sheet is placed and an image forming device to form images on the transfer sheet fed from the manual feeding tray, wherein the image forming apparatus has a storage section to store the sheet fee... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7128318 | Sheet registration deskew improvement system with a centrally pivotal baffle Sheet registration with improved sheet deskewing of print media sheets may be provided with an intermediately transversely pivotal baffle member overlying and engaging at least part of a buckled sheet being edge registered so that the effective buckle chamber size a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7079806 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a printer body having a developing portion and a fixing portion therein, a plurality of sheet feeding rollers provided along a sheet discharge path successively and driven to discharge a sheet passing through the fixing portion to... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7063317 | Image forming apparatus capable of feeding tab sheets of tab sheet bundle There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of setting up a tab sheet mode-operating and configuring environment in which an effective tab sheet mode output can be obtained by a simple operation of selecting feeding of tab sheets and a destination of discha... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7055820 | Sheet discharge device and sheet processing device using the same The present invention can easily change an accommodatable number of discharge sheet. Further, the present invention provides a sheet processing device that can easily change the accommodatable number of discharge sheet while aiming to miniaturize the device itself. ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7051944 | Scale and related printing apparatus and method for producing promotion offer labels using label stock with heat activated adhesive A scale includes a printing mechanism that operates to produce both adhesive product pricing labels and non-adhesive promotion offer labels using label stock with a heat activated adhesive. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7044464 | Apparatus for reversing sheet An apparatus for reversing a sheet, such as a banknote, from a front face to a rear face. In the reversing apparatus a first end of a common path communicates with an exit of a first conveyance path, a second end of common path communicates with an exit of a second ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7021620 | Image forming method with stacking control An image forming method for stacking sheets in an apparatus that operates in a first mode or a second mode and includes discharging bins in which image-formed sheets are stacked. Sheets are discharged face-up in the first mode and face-down in the second mode. The m... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6988725 | Method for registering sheets in a duplex reproduction machine for alleviating skew A method of registering a sheet in a duplex copier to alleviate the misalignment between the images copied on the front and back of the same sheet and to compensate for paper cut tolerances. The error angle of skew between a target angle, e.g. 90°, and the trailing... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6976673 | System and method for flipping a media sheet A system and method for flipping a media sheet. The novel system (10) includes a first mechanism (20) for inputting a media sheet (12) with a leading edge (22) and a trailing edge (24), a second mechanism (14) for receiving ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6974128 | Sheet registration deskew with plural arcuate independently repositionable baffles A sheet registration system in an arcuate sheet path of a compact printer with a sheet feeding system in which the lead edge of the sheet is partially arcuately buckled against a transversely extending registration gate in said sheet path (such as stalled or slower ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973285 | Discharge sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same A sheet post-treating apparatus is provided with a discharged sheet stacking tray displaceably provided in a casing portion for stacking thereon sheets discharged from the casing portion, and a holding portion for holding the discharged sheet stacking tray in a firs... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6814353 | Automatic document feeder and image forming device An automatic document feeder comprising a reversing device and a discharge device is disclosed. The reversing device and the discharge device are disposed such that the distance in the horizontal direction from an original document reading position in the automatic ... | 11/09/2004 |
