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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8066273 | Dual-stack document storage bin for use in a self-service bunch document depositing terminal A dual-stack document storage bin comprises a substantially U-shaped container including a first bottom wall which interconnects first and second sidewalls to provide (i) the substantially U-shape, and (ii) a first document storage chamber which is defined between t... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7997574 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body which includes an attachment portion, a standby tray which is provided adjacent to the attachment portion of the apparatus body and stacks a paper thereon, a paper feeding tray stacks the paper thereon, a movemen... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7963517 | Sheet feed device and image recording apparatus having such sheet feed device A sheet feed device includes a first sheet cassette having an accommodating portion accommodating a first plurality of sheets and a second sheet cassette, disposed on the first sheet cassette, accommodating a second plurality of sheets. The sheet feed device also in... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7950648 | Feeding device and image forming apparatus A feeding device according to the present invention includes a box, paper holders, and a shifting mechanism. The box is open at its top. The paper holders are open at their tops and positioned in the box. Each of the paper holders holds a pile of sheets of paper in ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7887038 | Sheet material feeding device A compact sheet material feeding device with a small height is provided. The device includes a lower sheet material stacking unit, an upper sheet material stacking unit disposed above and movable relative to the lower sheet material stacking unit, a feeding mechanis... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7866654 | Sheet conveying apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus includes a first storing unit in which a sheet bundle is stacked, a second storing unit that is provided near the first storing unit and in which the sheet bundle is stacked, a transfer tray that is provided in the second storing unit and... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7699303 | Multimode stack and shingle document feeder A feeder for feeding media items from a tray includes a first nudger roller and a second nudger roller. The first and the second nudger roller are moveably mounted to the feeder. The first and the second nudger rollers are in a first position when a tray of a first ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7694951 | Sheet feeder including a plurality of paper cassettes A sheet feeder includes a first sheet-feeding cassette capable of accommodating a stack of recording medium and a second sheet-feeding cassette capable of accommodating a stack of recording medium smaller than the recording medium accommodated in the first sheet-fee... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7694950 | Sheet feed device and image recording apparatus having such sheet feed device A sheet feed device includes a first sheet cassette comprising an accommodating portion configured to accommodate a first plurality of sheets, and a second sheet cassette disposed on the first sheet cassette and configured to accommodate a second plurality of sheets... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7681875 | Supply tray and image forming apparatus for use therewith A supply tray includes a first tray configured to receive a stack of recording medium thereon, and a second tray configured to receive at least one recording medium thereon, which is different in size or type, or both, from the stack of recording medium received on ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7654515 | Image forming device with two attached cassettes and one transportation device An image forming device is provided with a device main body, a first cassette, a second cassette that is capable of moving between a first position and a second position with respect to the device main body, a transportation device, and a printing device. The transp... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7628392 | Sheet feed device and image recording apparatus having such sheet feed device A sheet feed device includes a first sheet cassette including an accommodating portion configured to accommodate a first plurality of sheets, and a second sheet cassette disposed on the first sheet cassette and including a holding portion configured to hold a second... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7600745 | Recording-sheet supplying apparatus and image recording apparatus A recording-sheet supplying apparatus which supplies recording sheets one by one in a sheet-supply direction, including: a first sheet tray that accommodates first recording sheets; a second sheet tray disposed above the first sheet tray and configured to accommodat... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7448609 | Sheet feeding device A sheet feeding device includes a guiding member having an upper guiding surface for guiding the upper surface of a document and a lower guiding surface for guiding the lower surface of the document to guide the document to a support portion. The guiding member is m... | 11/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7412200 | Sheet feed unit operable with smaller force and image forming apparatus A sheet feed unit for use in an image forming apparatus includes a sheet feed unit body and a sheet cassette. The sheet feed unit body includes a first frame and a first contact face provided on the first frame. The sheet cassette, which is withdrawable from the she... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409184 | Original document reading device When an original document is placed on the lift tray, a timer is reset and starts counting a predetermined time (S12). Whether an alignment device is moved to adjust the original documents loaded on the lift tray in, for example, the widthwise direction trans... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7407157 | Arrangement for handling banknotes and/or other documents An arrangement for handling banknotes includes a magazine (13) containing a plurality of magazine pockets (18). Each pocket (18) has an infeed and outfeed opening (26) through which a banknote can be fed in into or fed out from the pocket... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7398969 | System and method for supplying media to a device A system and method for supplying media to a device. The novel system includes a first tray for holding a first supply of media, a first mechanism including a shaft adapted to feed media from the first tray to the device when the shaft is rotated in a first directio... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7367266 | Plate feeding apparatus A plate feeding apparatus includes a multi-cassette unit for storing, in a stacked state, a plurality of cassettes storing plates, a loader unit for fetching from each cassette plates to be fed to an image recorder, and a plate feed unit disposed above the multi-cas... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357388 | Image forming apparatus with recording medium support member adjustable in position for desired position of uppermost recording medium on support member An apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium is disclosed which includes: a first drive source; a photoreceptor driven for movement by a driving force applied thereto from the first drive source; a support member supporting the recording medium to be fed ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349127 | Reading/recording apparatus, reading/recording control method, program for implementing the reading/recording control method, reading apparatus, reading control method, and program for implementing the reading control method There is provided a reading/recording apparatus which is miniaturized, by having a reading device and a recording device share a moving space on a shared conveying path used as both a conveying path for an original and a conveying path for a recording sheet, and whi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338041 | Image recording material supply apparatus and method For replacing a cassette 9 in an automatic loader section 4, an operation of retracting the cassette 9 to a cassette accommodation section 3 is performed in parallel with an operation of inserting a new cassette 9 from the cassette... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7292820 | Integrated media input tray including electronics A removable media tray for an image forming apparatus includes a housing, an exit port in the housing, a primary media stack, and a multi-purpose tray (MPT) input. Within the tray are first and second pick mechanisms operative to select a media sheet from the primar... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290763 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image reading and recording apparatus provided with the same A first sheet feeding device and a second sheet feeding device for feeding sheets stacked on a first stacking portion and a second stacking portion, respectively, are driven by a driving force generated by a drive source. A controller controls the drive source so th... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7181416 | Multi-function transaction processing system A multi-function transaction processing system including a transaction terminal having a data entry facility and a transaction processor, the transaction processor being communicatively associated with a control processor that defines user accounts and issues one or... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177962 | Multifunctional apparatus having facsimile and copying functions wherein both functions share the same conveying path when reading and printing data There is provide a reading/recording apparatus capable of ensuring that a reading device and a recording device do not collide when the apparatus is miniaturized to thereby protect the reading unit and the recording unit by having the reading device and the recordin... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7156389 | Sheet feeder and image forming apparatus having the same A protecting cover and a pickup device, each having a hooking portion, are rotatably provided at the flank of an image forming apparatus. The rotational centers of the protecting cover and the pickup device and the hooking portions are arranged in such geometry that... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152857 | Paper feed and output assembly, and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, which has sophisticated functions of feeding recording paper of various sizes selectively and of sorting printed paper, is reduced in size. The feed bin sorters, the output bin sorters, and the output tray are arranged in tiers. Pre-print... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7140795 | Printer The printer can improve the workability of storing and ejecting printing sheets in or from a storage tray. The printer includes a storage tray comprising a sheet storage case for storing a stack of a plurality of printing sheets with at least one of the sides of the... | 11/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7111934 | Recording medium feeding apparatus, recording apparatus, liquid ejecting apparatus The feeding apparatus 50 includes a hopper 51 that is provided operable to support the papers in inclined attitude and pivot around a pivot axis 51a, and a feed roller 53 that is provided at a feed roller shaft 54 and feeds ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7100506 | Plate supplying apparatus In the plate supplying apparatus of the present invention, various vibrations are provided to a plate secured via suction during a separating operation by causing pad rods 403 to repeat a slight ascent and a pause, and thereafter causing the pad rods 403 | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099618 | Paper discharge tray A tray and a method thereof that uses the tray including a surface with a first end and a second end opposite to the first end a projection extending away from the surface and from the second end of the surface and a recess formed below the surface and from the proj... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7073786 | Feed paper apparatus A paper feed has a door and a paper carrying tray, and raises the tray as paper is fed. A first detector that detects the presence of paper is located below a paper feed position by a margin corresponding to a given number of paper sheets, and second detector that d... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7051653 | Image recording material separating/removing device An image recording material separating/removing device which, by using a single lift-out mechanism section, can lift image recording materials out from plural cassettes along simple loci of movement, and in which a space for providing and withdrawing the cassettes i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7028450 | System and method of processing and packing disk-like objects A system for automatically forming several parallel rows of disk-like objects on a conveyor into stacks and packing those stacks into boxes is disclosed along with a method of operating the system. The system includes a stacker receiving the disk-like objects as the... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6978716 | Plate supplying apparatus In the plate supplying apparatus of the present invention, various vibrations are provided to a plate secured via suction during a separating operation by causing pad rods 403 to repeat a slight ascent and a pause, and thereafter causing the pad rods 403 | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977753 | Printing assembly and an operator control panel user interface for the printing assembly A touch-screen interface of an operator control panel is provided on an imaging assembly, such as a printing assembly, and communicates the state of the printing assembly and its primary components to an operator, even when the operator is standing beyond a normal r... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6929414 | Reading/recording apparatus, reading control method, and program for implementing the method There is provided a reading/recording apparatus which is capable of properly conveying originals during original reading operation, even if there exists a state where a recording medium conveying device shares the same space with an original conveying path. A shared... | 08/16/2005 |
