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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8066281 | Sheet tip contacting belt conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding device that feeds a sheet, and a conveyance belt that conveys the sheet toward a printing region while attracting the sheet with electrostatic force. The printing region is disposed in a vicinity of the conveyance ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7946579 | Image forming apparatus, recording medium conveyance control method, and computer program product thereof An image forming apparatus that effectively reduces sheet collision and increases productivity includes a storage unit to store sheets of a recording medium, a feeder to feed the sheets one by one from the storage unit, a conveyance device to convey the sheets along... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7837194 | Feeding apparatus and image forming system A feeding apparatus including a feeding device including (a) a feeder which feeds, in each of a plurality of feeding operations, an object in a feeding direction in a state in which an external force is exerted to the object in a direction parallel to the feeding di... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7708274 | Card-holding device in a card-processing apparatus In a card processing apparatus a card tray and, a card-transporting device are provided. A device for sensing the position or detention of a card in the card tray and a holding device for a card that has stopped in an irregular manner in the card tray due to manipul... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7654526 | Correction method of transport amount and medium transport apparatus A correction method of a transport amount includes: detecting a movement amount of a medium while transporting the medium using a transport roller, the transport roller being for transporting the medium by rotating, an actual movement amount of the medium, when the ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7641192 | Sheet feeder and process of feeding sheet A sheet feeder including: (a) a pair of feed rollers operable to have a plurality of successive rotational motions, so as to be rotated by a predetermined amount in each one of the successive rotational motions, for thereby causing a sheet nipped between the pair of... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7451983 | Card-holding device in a card-processing apparatus In a card processing apparatus a card tray and, a card-transporting device are provided. A device for sensing the position or detention of a card in the card tray and a holding device for a card that has stopped in an irregular manner in the card tray due to manipul... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7431278 | Image forming apparatus and platen used therein An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a platen, a transporting device, and a suction device. The image forming unit forms an image on one surface of a printing medium. The transporting device transports the printing medium in a transportation di... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7417775 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus comprises a paper feeder controller, a scanner and a printing controller. The paper feeder controller executes first paper and second paper feeding processes. The scanner executes a manuscript scanning process for optically scanning a manu... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7410167 | Recording medium feeding method and image recording apparatus A method for feeding a recording medium includes the steps of: feeding the recording medium along a sheet-feeding path by a unit feeding amount, detecting an entrance of a rear end of the recording medium into a jumping alarm area, dividing the unit feeding amount i... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7396175 | Sheet carrier and image forming device A sheet carrier, includes an upstream side sheet carriage part; a downstream side sheet carriage part; an overlapping detection part which is provided between the upstream side sheet carriage part and the downstream side sheet carriage part and is configured to dete... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7384041 | Mailing piece buffer system A document transfer buffer device for holding temporarily a document between an upstream document feeding device and a downstream envelope inserter has a transporting device for moving the document from the upstream document feeding device to the envelope inserter a... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7377510 | Delivery apparatus and delivery method In a delivery apparatus having a delivery conveyor for receiving and transporting a signature discharged from a printing press, the delivery conveyor is continuously driven if the drive speed of the printing press is higher than a predetermined speed, or the deliver... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7320464 | Original reading device with controller An original reading device includes a registration roller located upstream of an original reading position in an original transport path for adjusting the timing of feeding an original to the original reading position. There is at least one original feed roller for ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320465 | Paper feeding unit and image forming apparatus using the same A paper feeding unit of an image forming apparatus, which includes: a pickup roller; a first feed roller to feed the paper in a required direction; and a reverse roller to prevent a plurality of sheets of paper from being fed by rotating in an opposite direction to ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317553 | Settings of sub-scan feed error and sub-scan feed amount suitable for printing medium A printing device comprises a feed mechanism configured to advance the printing medium intermittently. The feed mechanism is adjusted so that an average feed error δave is in the vicinity of zero with respect to a most slippery printing medium among plural types of... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7213808 | Enclosure-collating device, in particular for mail-processing installations In an enclosure-collating device, in particular for mail-processing installations, a shorter dimensioning of the enclosure-conveying compartments on a collating path in the direction of the enclosure conveying on said collating path is achieved in that enclosures ar... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7168700 | Sheet feeder apparatus and method with throughput control A sheet feeder apparatus and method with throughput control. By varying the speed at which sheets are fed from a supply, the sheet feeder apparatus and method assures that the throughput capacity of a downstream operation is never exceeded. Speed is varied based upo... | 01/30/2007 |
| 6969065 | Sheet transfer apparatus and sheet supply apparatus A sheet transport apparatus includes the first transport rollers, the second transport rollers arranged at downstream of the first transport rollers to receive a sheet transported from the first transport rollers, a spacing device for setting the first transport rol... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6929260 | Method and device for transferring at least two overlapped sheets to a sheet-handling machine A method and a device for transferring at least two sheets, which are arranged in a shingled mode of arrangement in a sheet transport direction, to a sheet handling machine in which the at least two sheets are moved at a first speed after the transfer, a first and a... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6827421 | Carrying device, printing apparatus, carrying method, and printing method A carrying device of the present invention is provided with a carrying mechanism for carrying a medium according to a target carry amount. Here, the carrying device: stores first correction information for correcting the target carry amount according to the target c... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6761351 | Registration system effective drive roll radius 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 velocity of the substrate. Exemplary systems of the Invention include at lea... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6651980 | Sheet conveying apparatus with correction device to compensate for sheet interval variation A sheet conveying apparatus permits keeping predetermined sheet intervals, even when sheet conveyance is temporarily discontinued and then resumed, after resumption of conveyance. The sheet conveying apparatus has a first roller which feeds sheets at pred... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6533263 | Sheet conveying apparatus, and image forming apparatus and image reading apparatus having same The present invention is made in consideration of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a sheet conveying apparatus which can monitor a sheet conveying condition even with small sheet interval, an image forming appa... | 03/18/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6499733 | Method and apparatus for feeding sheet material into a printer or copier The invention relates to a method of feeding a sheetlike material (50-54) into a printer. An externally located cover sheet (50-54) is removed from a pile of sheets and conveyed towards a section (a10-a12) of the transport path at a transport speed (V0, V... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6446954 | Method and apparatus for end-to-end feeding of sheet media A method and apparatus for end-to-end advancement of sheet media in an automatic document feeder suitable for use with a scanner are disclosed. The method involves driving a drive roller in a forward direction to advance a sheet medium section-by-section ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6409043 | Sheet conveying apparatus The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus comprising a sheet feeding device for separating and feeding stacked sheets one by one, a convey guide device for guiding the sheet fed out by the sheet feeding device, a spacing device provided o... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6250623 | Printing apparatus, control method for a printing apparatus, and recording medium for recording a control program for a printing apparatus A printer and control method therefor for printing to a specific location on an inserted form whether the form is loaded automatically or manually in the printer. When a specific command is received from a host, the printer selects the insertion operation... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6224050 | Method and apparatus for feeding astride folded signatures to a collection path A method and an apparatus is disclosed for feeding astride signatures (3) to a collection path. The signatures (3) are removed from a magazine (4) with a conveyor drum (6) and transferred to an opening device (16). The transport speed of the signature lif... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6199858 | Office printing apparatus with shingling of sheets in a duplex loop Apparatus for stacking sheets comprises a duplex tray for holding a sheet in a temporary storage position. A dispense nip is formed at an outlet of the tray. Rollers feed a sheet from the temporary storage position by a predetermined distance through the ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6182959 | Method and devices for conveyance of sheets The invention relates to a method for conveyance of sheets, in which said sheets are advanced or slowed down in such a manner that a distance is altered. A value of said change in distance can be preselected.... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6179289 | Paper-feed control unit and method of control for image-forming apparatus Paper-feed control of an image-forming apparatus, in which the control unit has a paper-feed-motor-drive-controller for controlling a paper-feed-motor. The paper-feed-motor rotating a resist roller and a paper ejection-roller for feeding printing paper. T... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6179285 | Media transport assembly incorporating vacuum grooves to flatten sheet A media transport system for transporting a media sheet in a marking device includes an entrance drive assembly, an exit drive assembly and a vacuum generator that applies a vacuum force to the media sheet to form a wide, flat printing zone. The entrance ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6176483 | High speed document separator and sequencing apparatus A separator and sequencing apparatus comprising a first selective document transport means for selective movement of documents and a second selective document transport means for selective movement of documents positioned adjacent to the first selective d... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6173953 | Simple paper indexer An indexing mechanism for advancing a substrate in a first direction is disclosed. The mechanism includes a guide for guiding the substrate along a substrate path and an urging member. The urging member is movable in a direction skewed with respect to the... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6164641 | Document separating mechanism of automatic document feeder A document separating mechanism for an automatic document feeder for separating and feeding the bottommost document of documents laid on document bearing means. A separating roller mechanism has a plurality of rollers provided at spaced locations in an ax... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6152444 | Shuttling media movement system for hardcopy devices A shuttling media movement system moves media in a hardcopy device, such as an inkjet printing mechanism, a facsimile machine or a multi-function device. The shuttling media movement system has a first member with a first set of fingers for periodically s... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6116795 | Paper feed control method To maintain a high precision of a line feeding amount of a paper sheet regardless of the processing precision of a paper feed roller. Relationships between paper line feeding amounts of a paper feed roller at division positions divided into a plurality of... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6062557 | Image forming apparatus having a non-exciting actuate type electromagnetic clutch An image forming apparatus including a sheet feeding device that is driven by a driving device through an interval device. The interval device can transfer the driving force only when a coil in the interval device is not electrified. Accordingly, when the... | 05/16/2000 |
