Abstract: A printer includes an apparatus main body, an inner door unit, a main body gear, a transmission gear, and a lock mechanism section. The lock mechanism section locks the inner door unit against the apparatus main body and unlocks the inner door unit from the apparatus main body. The lock mechanism section includes a counter-engagement shaft which is long in a Y-direction, a lock lever having an engagement surface configured to engage with the counter-engagement shaft, and a tension spring that applies force to the lock lever to enable the engagement surface to change in position from a first posture to a second posture. In a closing operation, the engagement surface changes position to the second posture while shifting the position of contact with the counter-engagement shaft, and applies, to the counter-engagement shaft, a pull-in force for moving the inner door unit to a closed position.

Abstract: An image reading device includes: a transport unit configured to transport a medium; an emission unit configured to emit an ultrasonic wave in accordance with a driving voltage and a reception unit configured to receive the ultrasonic wave, the emission unit and the reception unit being disposed so that a transport path for the medium transported by the transport unit is interposed therebetween; a reading unit configured to read the medium; and a control unit configured to detect presence or absence of multi-feed of the medium on the basis of a signal received by the reception unit. The image reading device is configured to switch a posture into any of a first posture or a second posture. The first posture is a posture in which the transport path is sloped relative to a mounting surface. The second posture is a posture in which an angle of the transport path relative to the mounting surface is smaller than that in the first posture.

Abstract: A sheet processing device includes a sheet storage and a sheet displacer. The sheet storage includes a first storage portion that includes a first wall that is one side wall of the sheet storage and a second wall that is part of another side wall of the sheet storage and a second storage portion that includes a third wall continuous to the first wall and the second wall. The sheet displacer displaces a preceding sheet stored in the sheet storage and contacts an upper end of the preceding sheet to displace the preceding sheet such that the upper end of the preceding sheet moves toward the third wall. The second wall and the third wall are coupled via a bent portion that bends in a manner such that a storage space of the second storage portion is greater than a storage space of the first storage portion.

Abstract: A processing system includes a stacker on which at least one medium recorded with an image is stacked, a holding unit configured to hold the medium, a processing path extending from the stacker to the holding unit, a pick roller configured to transport the medium from the stacker to the processing path, a reading unit configured to read the medium transported through the processing path, and a control unit configured to store indication data indicating an index of whether to transport a medium to the holding unit, wherein, when receiving a processing instruction from a user, the control unit is configured to cause the pick roller to transport a medium from the stacker to the processing path, and determine whether to transport the medium to the holding unit, based on read data and the indication data, the read data being acquired by reading the medium by the reading unit.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a housing, a sheet stacker, a stacker elevator, an extension sheet stacker, and a support. The sheet stacker is included in the housing and is configured to stack a sheet. The stacker elevator is configured to elevate the sheet stacker. The extension sheet stacker is attached to the sheet stacker and is configured to extend outward from the housing. The support is configured to support the extension sheet stacker and has an inclined portion configured to diagonally extend in a sheet conveyance direction, to the housing from a position upstream from a center of the extension sheet stacker in the sheet conveyance direction, when viewed from a width direction of the sheet.

Abstract: An image reading device includes an original-document support portion configured to support an original document to be fed, and an expansion support portion configured to be able to be expanded from and accommodated in the original-document support portion. The expansion support portion includes a first expansion portion extending along a width direction that is a direction intersecting an original-document feeding direction in a state of being accommodated in the original-document support portion, and a second expansion portion configured to be able to be accommodated in and expanded from the first expansion portion, the second expansion portion extending along the width direction in a state in which the expansion support portion is accommodated.

Abstract: A money depositing and dispensing machine 1 includes: a storage compartment 100 provided with a first front opening 101; a stowage compartment 200 disposed on a lower side of the storage compartment 100; a storage portion 12 stored in the storage compartment 100 and storing paper sheets; and a conveying unit 13 stored in the storage compartment 100 and for conveying the paper sheets stored in the storage portion 12 to the stowage compartment 200. The conveying unit 13 is configured to be slidable in a direction of the first front opening 101 provided in the storage compartment 100. The stowage compartment 200 stows the paper sheets conveyed by the conveying unit 13.

Abstract: A sheet transporting device includes: a pair of transporting rolls provided to a sheet transport path; a separating component configured to move one of transporting rolls that form the pair of transporting rolls to an open position where the one of the transporting rolls is spaced apart from an other of the transporting rolls; and a switching component having a switching function of switching a position of the pair of transporting rolls between a nipping position and an unnipping position, the switching component being configured to resume the switching function when the pair of transporting rolls once moved to the open position by the separating component is returned to a normal operating position.

Abstract: A sheet feeder apparatus includes a width detector for a sheet placed on a sheet placement portion, a conveyor for conveying sheets while separating the sheets one by one, a first detector for detecting a sheet having a first width at a plurality of first positions, a second detector for detecting a sheet having a second width that is not detected by the first sheet detector at a plurality of second positions, and a controller for determining skewing of a sheet based on a result of the detection of the sheet performed by the first detector if the width of the sheet is the first width, and determining skewing of a sheet based on a result of the detection performed by the second detector if the width of the sheet is the second width.

Abstract: A transport section includes a first roller, a second roller, a first rotating shaft, a second rotating shaft, a support unit, a main body, a door, and a third rotating shaft. The second roller nips a paper sheet together with the first roller. The first rotating shaft rotatably supports the first roller; the second rotating shaft rotatably supports the second roller. The support unit supports the first rotating shaft; the main body supports the support unit. The third rotating shaft allows the door to rotate. When the door is opened, the support unit moves the first rotating shaft to an escaped point. The escaped point of the first rotating shaft is further from the first roller positioned at the nip point than the nip point.

Abstract: A feeding device includes: a supply unit that supplies air into space between plural media loaded to float the media; a feeder that adsorbs the media floated by the supply unit and feeds the media; a separator that supplies air to a second medium disposed immediately below a first medium adsorbed by the feeder to separate the second medium from the first medium; a detector that detects a position of at least one of the first medium and the second medium after air is supplied by the separator; and a modifier that modifies a condition related to a feeding operation of the feeder based a position detected by the detector.

Abstract: A sheet separation device separates a non-bonding portion of a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlapped and bonded together at a bonding portion of the two-ply sheet. The sheet separation device includes a winding roller, a conveyance roller pair, and a separation claw. The winding roller rotates and winds the two-ply sheet. The conveyance roller pair conveys the two-ply sheet toward the winding roller. The separation claw is inserted into a gap between the two sheets at a position between the winding roller and the conveyance roller pair. The separation claw is disposed in a space that is bounded by an imaginary plane and includes the winding roller. The imaginary plane passes through a nip of the conveyance roller pair and a winding start position at which the two-ply sheet starts to be wound around the winding roller.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes: a curved sheet transport path; multiple transport roller pairs disposed in the sheet transport path; multiple driving sources that drive the multiple transport roller pairs; multiple load detectors that detect the loads of the multiple driving sources; and a control unit that controls the driving speed of at least one of the driving sources such that detection results obtained by the load detectors are within a predetermined range in accordance with the position of the leading end of a sheet.

Abstract: A feeding device includes a sheet tray, a transport device, a sheet sensor, and a control device. On the sheet tray, a sheet is placed. The transport device transports the sheet placed on the sheet tray. The sheet sensor is located upstream of the transport device in a sheet transport direction, and outputs curvature information indicating a curvature status of the sheet being transported by the transport device. The control device includes a processor, and acts as a measuring device and a calculation device, when the processor executes a control program. The measuring device measures a curvature amount of the sheet, on a basis of the curvature information. The calculation device calculates rigidity of the sheet, on a basis of the curvature amount.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance device of an embodiment includes a carrying-in unit feeds a sheet to a stacking unit; a lower conveyance unit applies a force to a lower side of a sheet stacked on the stacking unit to move the sheet; a lifting and lowering unit lifts and lowers at least an end of the lower conveyance unit on a side close to the carrying-in unit in at least three stages (lower, middle, and upper); an upper conveyance unit faces the lower conveyance unit and applies a force to the upper side of a sheet pinched between the upper conveyance unit and the lower conveyance unit that is moved to the upper stage to move the sheet; and a stopper protrudes above the lower conveyance unit placed at the lower stage by the lifting and lowering unit, and the downstream end in the feeding direction of a sheet abuts on the stopper.

Abstract: A controller, upon occurrence of a sheet jam in a downstream conveyor, discharges a sheet in an upstream conveyor from a discharge port by controlling an operation of a switchback roller depending on an operation status of the switchback roller at a time of the occurrence of the sheet jam and then stops sheet conveyance by a conveyor.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first roller including a first rotation shaft and a first roller portion, an image reading unit, a first guide portion, a second guide portion arranged downstream of the first roller in a sheet conveyance direction, the second guide portion being curved with respect to a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of a first rotation shaft and the sheet conveyance direction, and a second roller. A reading position is located in a region between a first straight line and a second straight line, the first straight line passing through a first end, in the axial direction, of the first roller portion and extending in the sheet conveyance direction, the second straight line passing through a second end, in the axial direction, of the first roller portion and extending in the sheet conveyance direction.

Abstract: A processing machine includes at least one processing unit configured as at least one shaping unit following, in a transport direction of a substrate, at least one processing unit configured as at least one application unit. Additionally, at least one transport unit is arranged between the at least one application unit and at least one succeeding processing unit. The at least one transport unit includes a plurality of transport elements that are arranged one behind the other in the transport direction. At least one transport element is axially adjustable based on detection of at least one image-producing element of a substrate by at least one sensor for substrate alignment.

Abstract: A reversing roller pair is controlled such that, when an abnormality occurs during the conveying of a sheet, the sheet is conveyed in a forward direction by the reversing roller pair, and is controlled to continue conveying until a state where the final sheet among the sheets conveyed in the forward direction is detected by a first detection portion, and subsequently to stop in a state where the final sheet is nipped by the reversing roller pair.

Abstract: A printer includes a recording head, a belt, a scale unit, a reading head, a gripping unit. The belt includes a first surface configured to support a medium and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The gripping unit includes a first abutting portion that comes into contact with the first surface, and a second abutting portion that comes into contact with the second surface. The gripping unit can be changed between a gripping state of moving along with the glue belt while gripping the glue belt, and a release state of being separated from the glue belt. When the gripping unit is in the release state, the second abutting portion is separated from the second surface in conjunction with the first abutting portion being separated from the first surface.