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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7988146 | Media fixing device A media fixing device includes a stationary plate, a bar linking member, a main pressure plate, an elastic member, an auxiliary plate and a pivot rod. The bar linking member is configured for movably connecting the main pressure plate. The elastic member is configur... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7681878 | Paper feeding unit and image forming apparatus having the same A paper feeding unit and an image forming apparatus having the same capable of maintaining a constant paper feeding force regardless of a size of paper. The image forming apparatus includes a main body, a printing unit provided in the main body to form an image on p... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7673872 | Sheet feeding unit and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet feeding unit and an image forming apparatus having the same. The image forming apparatus includes a body and the sheet feeding unit to supply sheets into the body. The sheet feeding unit includes a sheet feeding cassette coupled to the body, a sheet lifting ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7591463 | Media support apparatus for media cassette of automatic media dispenser A media support apparatus for a media cassette of an automatic media dispenser includes a base plate having a guide piece which is provided with a guide slot. A link mechanism has at least one connection pin, which is moved along the guide slot, and two connection l... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7591464 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus has a cassette retracting mechanism which retracts a sheet supplying cassette to a mounting position when the sheet supplying cassette is to be mounted on an apparatus main body, and protrudes the sheet supplying cassette from the apparatus... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7549632 | Paper feed tray and printer furnished with the tray A paper feed tray includes: a tray unit; a lifting member arranged in the tray unit, for lifting a drawn-out end of a paper sheet being the uppermost or the last of a stack accommodated in the tray unit; a spring for urging the lifting member in a lifting direction;... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7543813 | Sheet feeding apparatus with sheet lifting member and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus has a sheet loading plate, a sheet feeding member, a side regulating member on the sheet loading plate and a torsion spring to generate an elastic biasing force, so as to bias the sheet loading plate to bring the uppermost sheet into contac... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7427063 | Shingle media item feed tray with spring loaded self locking sled A media item feed tray with an exit area for media items includes a sled moveable toward and away from the feed tray exit area. A biasing surface is mounted to the tray and extends away from the feed tray exit area. A spring member is mounted on the moveable sled an... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7413187 | Printer A printer has a paper rest on which one or more paper sheet is placed, feed rollers for feeding the paper sheet placed on the paper rest, and a printing head for printing an image on the paper sheet. The paper rest has a fixed rest portion, the inclination of which ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7410162 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a chassis, a paper feed roller, a lifting member, and a biasing member. The chassis has a first side surface, a second side surface, and a bottom surface that connects the first and second side surfaces. The bottom surface has one of a... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7364153 | Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding device includes a cassette configured to accommodate recording media, and a recording media feeding member configured to feed out the recording media accommodated in the cassette. The cassette includes a tray main body part including a stacking plate... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357586 | Image forming apparatus including a paper feeding cassette An image forming apparatus including a paper feeding cassette to stack a print medium, wherein the paper feeding cassette includes a plate to support the print medium and which elevates substantially straight, and a supporting unit to support the elevation of the pl... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7334789 | Printed sheets stacking tray with automatic alternate stacking support and manual stack lifting assistance In a sheet stacking and unloading system in which sheets are stacked on a stacking tray which is then moved from its sheet stacking position to an unloading position for removing the sheet stack from the stacking tray, and the stacking tray has a sheet stacking surf... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7269934 | Taco shell nesting apparatus and method The present invention is, in one embodiment, an apparatus for placing an insert within a nested group of taco shells. The insert placement apparatus comprises a vertical shaft, a horizontal shaft, a first pillow block, a second pillow block, a vacuum cup, a horizont... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266329 | Toner image carrying member and manufacturing method thereof, and electrophotographic apparatus A toner image carrying member can be rotationally driven, and a plurality of grooves are formed on an outer peripheral surfaces of the toner image carrying member, the plurality of grooves extending along a rotation direction of the toner image carrying member and a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7237773 | System for feeding and transporting documents A system for feeding and transporting documents includes a feeder stage and a transport stage. The hopper assembly includes a hopper floor that carries the document stack and a flag that provides a force to move the documents along the hopper floor toward the feeder... | 07/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7216863 | Sheet processing apparatus above image forming means and image forming apparatus A sheet processing apparatus, which is configured in a simple construction and at low cost, includes a first sheet stacking portion for temporarily stacking a sheet discharged thereon, an alignment member for aligning the sheet discharged on the first sheet stacking... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7188835 | Sheet feeding apparatus for image forming device A sheet feeding apparatus for an image forming device prevents a sheet jammed in a pickup roller from being damaged when a sheet feeding cassette is separated to remove the jammed sheet. The sheet feeding apparatus for the image forming device includes a sheet feedi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7147219 | Printer paper tray A paper tray (110, 210, 310, 410, 510, 610, 710, 810) for holding a stack of sheets of paper in a printer (540, 640, 740, 840) is provided. The paper tray includes an actuator (221, 421, 521, 621, 721, 821), which is moveable between an engaged ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7140609 | Locking/unlocking mechanism A cartridge apparatus includes a media cassette, face plate and a locking and unlocking mechanism. The locking and unlocking mechanism includes a lock bar, a first post and a second post, and is configured to lock and unlock a cartridge during insertion in a printer... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7073880 | Ink jet printing apparatus and method using removably mounted print medium tray This invention is intended to perform a mounting/dismounting or replacement of a print head and ink tank mounted on the carriage without contaminating a print medium including a tray when performing an ink jet printing using the tray. For this purpose, the tray guid... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7036816 | Paper feeding cassette for image forming apparatus The paper feeding cassette includes a push-up plate provided inside the cassette for receiving a stack of sheets entirely thereon regardless of the size of the sheets. On the push-up plate is mounted a trailing edge plate which is coupled to a fixing plate through a... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032775 | Tape dispenser/applicator device A tape dispenser/applicator device for dispensing and applying tape to packages. The tape dispenser/applicator device includes a housing member having side walls and open top and bottom ends; and also includes a tape cartridge being removably disposed in the housing... | 04/25/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6953190 | Paper cartridge for printing apparatus A paper cartridge for a printing apparatus includes a cartridge body; a pressure plate moving upward and downward in the cartridge body; a pick-up roller to pick up the paper stacked on the pressure plate; a spring to elastically bias the pressure plate toward the p... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6945527 | High capacity media apparatus and method A high capacity media apparatus and method includes, in a high capacity media device holding large quantities of media, according to one embodiment, a unitary deformable media holder with a bottom, a top, and sides, constructed to separate at preselected locations. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6942212 | Mechanical media top level elevator A media handling mechanism in a printing device includes an input tray for holding a stack of media sheets at a top level. The input tray includes a platform on which the stack of media sheets rests. The media handling mechanism also has a driving means coupled to t... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6896255 | Sheet extracting device with a cassette for receiving a stack of sheets The invention relates to a cassette for receiving a stack of sheets, with a pressing element which bears against a first end face of the stack of sheets and is movable in the pressing direction, with a drive motor for displacing the pressing element so that a second... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6880822 | Paper feeder, recording apparatus, and method of detecting a position of a terminal edge of a recording material in the recording apparatus A paper feed unit includes a hopper on which sheets are stacked and which is turned around a rotation shaft. The hopper is turned to move apart from or move to a paper feed roller. The paper feed unit has three modes: a large release mode in which the hopper is turn... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6824133 | Stack monitoring method and system Disclosed herein is a stack monitoring system for an imaging apparatus for monitoring media reserves. ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6805343 | Bill handling machine for determining amount of bills in storage boxes A bill handling machine in which information of each of storing boxes installed therein is acquired and is reported to the operator includes a unit by which an amount of bills stored in each storing box set to the bill handling machine can be calculated by the stori... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6793425 | Feeding device with loading device adapted to hold a plurality of media or a storage case with a plurality of media and recording apparatus containing same A feeding device has a loading unit for allowing one of a plurality of recording media and a storage case having a plurality of recording media contained therein to be selectively loaded thereon, a feeding roller for feeding the recording media from the loading unit... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6786479 | Banknote store with a rotatable structure having banknote-storing regions A banknote store comprises a rotatable structure such as a drum which has a number of banknote storage regions arranged around its periphery. Each stores a stack of banknotes, the stacks growing inwardly as banknotes are added. The drum can be rotated to bring each ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6783126 | Sheet feeder and image formation apparatus A sheet feeder has a sheet tray for storing sheets, a moving bottom plate being disposed on the bottom of the sheet tray for stacking the sheets, the moving bottom plate being elastically urged by an elastic member, a sheet delivery unit having a sheet delivery memb... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6773182 | Paper cassette in printer A paper cassette adapted for use in a printing device has a cassette body connected to a body of the printing device, a supporting plate having a first end being pivotally disposed in the cassette body to support printing paper, a spring elastically supporting a low... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6728012 | Multifunction terminal A multifunction terminal is suitable for performing the functions of printing, scanning, copying, fax transmission and reception and/or sorting of documents. It comprises feeding stations (12, 14) for the sheets and the originals, a feeding path (18) w... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6721074 | Double side scanner module A double side scanner module which consists of a U-shaped inversion device and two image information reading devices is provided for reading images on the two sides of an original in a single pass. The U-shaped inversion device has two ends for providing a paper fee... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6702918 | Intermittent material feed type variable-lamination rapid prototyping process and apparatus using linear thermal cutting system A rapid prototyping process and apparatus that provides an intermittent material feed type variable-lamination rapid prototyping using a linear thermal cutting system, wherein intermittently fed materials are cut to have variable lengths, widths, and late... | 03/09/2004 |
