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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8091887 | Sheet feeding device and skew detecting method A plurality of moving-amount detecting units respectively detects a moving amount of the sheet fed by a feeding unit at a plurality of points in a width direction of the sheet. A skew detecting unit detects a skew of the sheet based on the moving amount of the sheet... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7950655 | Apparatus and method for controlling various kinds of paper media with skew sensing An apparatus for controlling reception of various kinds of paper media includes a reception unit to allow the various kinds of paper media to be received, a pick-up unit to pick up the paper media from the reception unit one sheet by one sheet, a transport unit to t... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7832726 | Sheet-convey device and image reading device A sheet-convey device, includes a holder, a convey member, and a recognizer. On the holder, a first sheet having a first width and a second sheet having a second width larger than the first width are placeable. The convey member conveys a sheet placed on the holder ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7654520 | Sheet-handling apparatus with a detecting device A sheet-handling apparatus with a detecting device includes a casing, a plurality of entrance rollers located in the casing, an image collector arranged at one side of the casing, a plurality of middle reflectors and side reflectors. A paper path is formed between t... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7392743 | Thickness detecting apparatus There are provided a thickness detecting apparatus which can restrain erroneous detection even though a sheet or the like overlaps with only a part of a rotary body, and, which can enhance the degree of accuracy of detection, comprising a cylindrical displaceable ro... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7319842 | Pivotal sheet conveying apparatus for skew correction and image forming apparatus To provide a sheet conveying apparatus capable of enhancing an accuracy of correcting a skew of a sheet, and of preventing position shift of a sheet. The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet by a sheet conveying unit disposed ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7198265 | Imaging apparatus including a movable media sensor An imaging apparatus includes a printing mechanism having a media path. A print media source is provided for supplying a sheet of print media to the printing mechanism. A drive unit is provided, with a drive shaft coupled to the drive unit. A media sensor device is ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7131782 | Paper edge sensing apparatus and method for borderless printing A paper edge sensing apparatus for borderless printing comprises a first paper sensor mounted in connection with the carrier and the frame in the upstream of a paper convey direction of an ink jet position of the ink jet nozzles to detect sheet edges, and a controll... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131539 | Paper sheets corner fold detection method and paper sheets corner fold detection program When a thickness sensor detects a corner fold in a front end part of the paper sheet being carried, a light sensor checks whether a break exists or not in the front end part. When there is no break, it means the thickness sensor does not detect a corner fold but a f... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7086713 | Media detack from an intermediate printing member An inkjet printer for printing on a print medium having an obverse side and a reverse side, including a rotating intermediate transfer member for receiving a print image and transferring the print image to the obverse side of the print medium and a rotating drag for... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6955351 | Paper feeding device and sheet carrying device A paper feeding device comprises a document tray for loading the document, a document-detecting sensor for detecting the document loaded in the document tray and a MYLAR® made of a sheet-shaped resilience material. A part of the MYLAR® is in contact with the docum... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6913259 | Apparatus for detection of multiple documents in a document transport An apparatus for detection of multiple documents (10) in a document transport system comprises a transmitter (15), located on a first side of a document feed path (40), and emits a signal through the document feed path. A reflector (52), ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912325 | Real time electronic registration of scanned documents The registration and skew information of a document about to be scanned are detected prior to capturing the entire image of the document. Two sensors, a fixed distance apart, are used to detect the document skew. A third sensor is used to detect the edge position of... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6811336 | Registration cam for a printing press A register cam and a printing press incorporating the register cam are disclosed. The register cam permits the selection of alternative configurations that permit the alteration of parameters of the registration without the removal of the register cam from the print... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6796434 | Sheet handling machine with thickness detection of multiple parts of sheet There is disclosed a sheet handling machine capable of surely verifying whether the number of bills is one or not based on the kind of a bill even when bills different in thickness are inserted, handling the bills of different thickness mixed in, dealing with new bi... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6781111 | Paper processing apparatus Includes a sensor section (240) which irradiates light onto paper that is being conveyed and which detects a quantity of light transmitted through the paper, and a type-of-money judging section (290) and a number-of-sheet-of-paper collating section ( | 08/24/2004 |
| 6748801 | Substrate bending stiffness measurement method and system A sheet separation and feeding system for measuring substrate bending stiffness and thereby basis weight on a real time basis. Provided is a corrugator having a plurality of parallel ribs, with one or more sheets of the substrate provided below the corrugator wherei... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6672587 | Multiple-sheet monitoring device In a multiple-sheet monitoring device for sheet-processing machines, provision is made to arrange a number of sensing elements spaced apart from one another over the format width of the sheets to be conveyed or the sheet stream to be conveyed, and in this... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6648327 | Device for detecting a placement position of a document A device for detecting a placement position of a document includes at least two sensors mounted on a document feeding device. Each of the sensors is in parallel with the tangential direction of the leading edge of a document feeding roller, and may be mov... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6581456 | Substrate bending stiffness measurement method and system A method and apparatus for measuring substrate bending stiffness and thereby basis weight on a real time basis. Provided is a corrugator having a plurality of parallel ribs, with one or more sheets of the substrate provided below the corrugator wherein a ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6508463 | Method and apparatus for staging envelopes A method and apparatus for staging envelopes in a mail insertion machine. In the mail insertion machine, envelopes are moved into an envelope inserting area one at a time with the flap of the envelopes trailing the envelope bottom edge and flipped away so... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6318714 | Document unstack system for currency recycling automated banking machine An automated banking machine (10) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers such documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport (70... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6241244 | Document sensor for currency recycling automated banking machine An automated banking machine (10) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers such documents from storage areas and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a sheet thickness... | 06/05/2001 |
| 5931462 | Method of sheet rotation and a sheet stacker with a sheet rotator To produce a desired sheet orientation between upstream and downstream positions of a sheet path along which sheets travel successively in a predetermined sheet travel direction, each sheet is driven uniformly along the path with an intermediate phase in ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5918877 | Cut sheet feeding device having a function of detecting a skew of the sheet to be fed A cut sheet feeding device having a function of detecting a skew of the sheet to be fed is incorporated in an image reader, a printing apparatus, etc. The cut sheet feeding device is capable of surely detecting the skew of a document without an operator v... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5918876 | Sheet conveying apparatus The present invention relates to a sheet conveying apparatus with a pair convey rollers arranged upstream of a registration mechanism for correcting a skew-feed of a sheet in a sheet conveying direction that can be abutted against or separated from each o... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5911417 | Sheet jamming-proof mechanism for paper-feeding system A sheet jamming-proof mechanism for a paper-feeding system provided outside of a left and a right paper boundaries delimited along a predetermined paper-feeding pathway to supervise the paper-feeding direction for preventing sheet jamming. The sheet jammi... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5775682 | Sheet transfer member having at least one outwardly opening sheet-receiving slot and sheet withdrawl portion and apparatus including such a member A sheet transfer member (17) has at least one outwardly opening slot (20) into which a sheet can be received. The member (17) is rotatably mounted in use so that a sheet in the slot (20) can be transferred to a sheet stacking position. A portion of the ro... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5694849 | Overshooting-sheet safety device Overshooting-sheet safety device for sheet deliveries of printing presses includes a triggering member responsive to overshooting sheets for triggering a stoppage of the printing press, the triggering member extending across the width of an oncoming sheet... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5662321 | Automatic document feeder with skew control The disclosed document feeder apparatus includes a document drive that comprises only a single line of feed rollers with a simple skew adjustment system. This drive is shown incorporated in a cassette-loaded automatic document feeder ("ADF") that is attac... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5527031 | Mechanism for insuring alignment of currency in currency validators A series of sensors are placed transversely to the line of movement of the bill so that the leading edge passes over the sensors substantially simultaneously. If the bill is misaligned and the sensors are blocked within a predetermined period, the bill wi... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5507481 | Automated teller machine passbook transport mechanism A passbook transport and handling apparatus (10) for transporting a passbook between a customer using an automated banking machine and a printer (12) located inside the banking machine includes first belt flights (32) movable on first pulleys (22). The tr... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5443257 | Sheet processing apparatus With a banknote processing apparatus, banknotes stored in a storing section are fed in a feeding direction one by one by take-in rollers. First and second sensors for detecting passage of the banknote are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the feedi... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5440979 | Mail stamping apparatus and method Method and apparatus for the cancellation of stamps and printing of pre-programmable messages on envelopes. The apparatus comprises structure for feeding a plurality of envelopes in singulated manner to a sensing assembly, which detects the leading and to... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5427366 | Sheet feeding apparatus having adjustable gate rollers for correcting sheet skew With a banknote processing apparatus, banknotes stored in a storing section are fed in a feeding direction one by one by take-in rollers. First and second sensors for detecting passage of the banknote are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the feedi... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5195738 | Single sheet picking and transport mechanism An apparatus for removing a sheet from the top of a stack of sheets and transporting it laterally in the direction of a processing station has a pick roller with an arcuate contact surface for frictionally engaging an exposed edge of the top sheet in a st... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5181707 | Sheet handling apparatus provided with a sheet sucking unit An sheet handling apparatus includes suckers for sucking up a sheet from a sheet storing unit and two sensors which are disposed on the suckers. One of the sensors detects whether the suckers come into contact with the topmost sheet of a sheet stack in th... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5174562 | Paper sheet handling apparatus Two thickness detectors (5) each for outputting an electric signal representing the thickness of a paper sheet (B) passing thereby are arranged side by side in the width direction of a paper sheet conveyance path (3). Parameters such as paper sheet thickn... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5172907 | Compensation for skewing of documents during a rotation through a finite angle The skew angle of a sheet (e.g., business form or other document) is detected by providing two sensors spaced from each other a known distance along a straight line perpendicular to the direction of conveyance of the sheet. If there is a skew, the distanc... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5119906 | Lift locking system A lift locking assembly for the vertically movable platform in a stacking apparatus includes toothed locking devices at each corner of the platform which are triggered simultaneously into engagement with correspondingly toothed racks by a triggering cable... | 06/09/1992 |
