Pack Holders Patents (Class 271/145)
With means to vibrate pack (Class 271/146)
Advancer (Class 271/147)
With means to bow sheets (Class 271/161)
Holder movable relative to feed position (Class 271/162)
For feed from bottom of pack (Class 271/165)
With means to restrain feed of next sheet (Class 271/167)
Holder adjustable to size of sheet (Class 271/171)
  • Sheet package
    Patent number: 8382096
    Abstract: A sheet package for supplying sheets to a printing apparatus has stacked sheets, and a package member that includes a first flat surface portion covering the sheets, a first side face portion extended from the first flat surface portion, a second flat surface portion extended from the first side face portion, a second side face portion extended from the first flat surface portion, a third flat surface portion extended from the second side face portion, a first cut-out portion formed in the first flat surface portion, a second cut-out portion formed in the second flat surface portion, and a third cut-out portion formed in the third flat surface portion, wherein at least one of an end of the second cut-out portion and an end of the third cut-out portion is disposed more toward the opposite side of the transfer direction of sheets than an end of the first cut-out portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Suito, Kiyoichi Ohta, Yasunori Nakamura
  • Planar-media-feed method
    Patent number: 8376353
    Abstract: A method of feeding a planar medium, includes providing a host tray having a feed edge adjacent to which the medium is extracted by a feeder, and having a spring plate for lifting the medium; nesting a media carrier in the host tray, wherein the media carrier includes a print biasing edge which forms an acute angle with the spring plate through the travel of the spring plate, so that the print biasing edge and the feeder together impose an angular acceleration on a planar medium disposed between the print biasing edge and the spring plate, so that the medium is rotated away from the print biasing edge; disposing a planar medium in the host tray over the spring plate; and extracting the planar medium at the feed edge using the feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Eric P. Hochreiter
  • IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS AND PAPER CASSETTE USED THEREIN
    Publication number: 20130038014
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus 1 has a paper cassette 3b therein. The paper cassette is installed into the apparatus along a guide channel 46 attached to a housing frame 45 of the apparatus. A housing 44 of the apparatus has a left side surface forming front and rear opening structures 9 at a lower portion. A hold 48 is provided on an inner-upper portion of the opening structure. The paper cassette has a left-side exterior portion 50 forming a recess 51 at a position facing the opening structure. A space 52 is prepared next to the recess without impairing the original function of the paper cassette. When moving the apparatus, a worker inserts his hand into the opening structures, touching the holds with his palms and flexes his fingers in the spaces, thereby firmly gripping the holds with his hand and lifting the printing apparatus in his arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoto YOSHIDA
  • Image reading apparatus
    Patent number: 8373911
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus is provided. The image reading apparatus includes a main unit and a conveyer unit swingably coupled to the main unit via a hinge. The conveyer unit includes a lower cover with an opening, which extends orthogonally to a swing axis of the conveyer unit, and an attachable member. The attachable member includes a main part and an auxiliary part and is fixed to the lower cover by the main part and to a rotatable fixing section of the hinge by the auxiliary part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoyuki Iwata, Takeshi Takami
  • DRAWING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20130032996
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided that can surely position a unit in an apparatus body with a simple configuration where the number of components is small. A drawing apparatus, which draws a sheet feeding cassette as a unit to a predetermined position of the apparatus body to position it, includes : a leaf spring that is an elastic member to jump-buckle; an engaging unit disposed in the leaf spring; and an engaged unit engaged with the engaging unit. When the unit is loaded on the apparatus body, the engaging unit engages the engaged unit, the elastic member jump-buckles, and accordingly the unit is drawn to the predetermined position of the apparatus body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kubota, Daijiro Kato
  • Medium storage device, image forming device and medium storage system
    Patent number: 8366098
    Abstract: A medium storage device that is covered by a dust cover and that stores a recording medium, includes: a guide member that is extendably and retractably provided in the medium storage device and that restricts a position of an edge part of the recording medium; and a lock member that locks the guide member and that releases the lock status of the guide member when the lock member moves in a first direction so as to allow the guide member to extend and retract, wherein the movement of the lock member in the first direction is restricted by the dust cover so that the guide member is stably locked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Kobayashi
  • Input tray media de-slouch system
    Patent number: 8360417
    Abstract: This invention relates to an input tray media de-slouch apparatus, comprising; an input media tray, at least one pivotable media de-slouch arm operatively connected to the tray, and a releasable locking means operatively connected to the arm and the tray to lock the arm prior to media being placed against the arm to substantially keep the media from slouching and to release the arm when the media is being fed from the input tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eng Long Goh, Mark Sutherland, Minh Duong, Danny Codd
  • Automatic feed roll cleaning system
    Patent number: 8360415
    Abstract: A media tray includes a cleaning mechanism that is fed into the media feed system of a printer automatically when the media tray is emptied of print media and then retracted when the media tray is accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas K. Herrmann, Adam D. Ledgerwood, Derek A. Bryl
  • Storage film feed
    Patent number: 8356811
    Abstract: A storage film feed feeds a storage film from a flexible sleeve open on one side at a rear side in a storage film detection device. The storage film feed has a feed opening with a penetration gap for the storage film and a slide located in the feed opening for fixing the sleeve. The slide is disposed perpendicular to a flat side of the sleeve. The storage film feed further has a stopping member for the slide, the flat side of the sleeve rests against the stopping member when the slide is actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Inventor: Michael Thoms
  • Image Forming Apparatus
    Publication number: 20130001855
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include a first tray configured to accommodate one or more recording sheets to be supplied to an image forming unit, a body frame configured to position an upper part of the first tray, and an expansion members disposed under the body frame to position a lower part of the first tray. The expansion member may include a transmission mechanism configured to be engagable with a body-side gear provided in the body frame. The transmission mechanism may be configured to transmit a drive force, which is transmitted from a drive source provided in the body frame via the body-side gear, to an add-on mechanism, when the transmission mechanism is engaged with the body-side gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto OZEKI, Masamitsu UKAI, Atsushi MIKUNI, Wei Ming WANG, Tomitake ARATACHI
  • SHEET HOLDER FOR A PRINTER
    Publication number: 20130001870
    Abstract: In one example, a printer sheet holding system includes: a support for printable substrate sheets in a support area; and a movable indicator to indicate the presence in the support area of a second sheet stack on top of a first sheet stack. The indicator being movable between a first position in which the indicator extends over the support area where it can rest on top of the first stack when a first stack is supported in the support area and a second position in which the indicator is withdrawn from the support area. In another example, a method includes sensing the presence of a second stack of printable substrate sheets on top of a first stack of printable substrate sheets and, in response to sensing the presence of the second stack on the first stack, configuring the printer to print on sheets of the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Shahar Stein
  • SHEET FEED DEVICES AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS COMPRISING SUCH SHEET FEED DEVICES
    Publication number: 20120326383
    Abstract: A sheet feed device has a tray with holding surface for holding sheets, a feed unit for feeding sheets from the tray, and a separation plate. The separation plate has an inclined surface and two or more separation portions that separate a sheet from the sheets held in the tray. At least one of the separation portions projects a first distance from the inclined surface. The separation plate also has a projection positioned on the inclined surface that projects a second distance from the inclined surface. The second distance is greater than the first distance. A first of the separation portions is positioned upstream of the particular projection in the sheet feed direction, and a second of the separation portions positioned downstream of the particular projection in the sheet feed direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo ASADA, Yukio SHIOHARA
  • Side guide assembly with vertically repositionable side guides for use with friction sheet feeding machines
    Patent number: 8336876
    Abstract: A repositionable side guide assembly with vertically repositionable side guides for use with a friction sheet feeding machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: StreamPeeder, LLC.
    Inventors: William L. Popejoy, Perry D. Bergman
  • SHEET STORING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120313317
    Abstract: A conveying roller conveys a sheet. A sheet holding portion receives a sheet from below and holds the received sheet with keeping its forward end upward and its rear end downward. The sheet holding portion has: a storing guide provided in a vertical state and having a guide surface configured to guide the received sheet upward; a conveying guide provided to face the guide surface and having a curved surface portion whose distance from the guide surface increases in the upward direction; and a holding member provided between the guide surface and the curved surface portion and configured to roll on the curved surface portion toward the guide surface to nip the received sheet with the guide surface. An inclination angle of the curved surface portion with respect to the guide surface decreases with distance from the guide surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Gamo, Naoto Tokuma, Toshiyuki Iwata
  • Medium stack tray
    Patent number: 8328185
    Abstract: A medium stack tray comprises a stacking member that stacks a sheet medium and is configured to be wound in a roll, a winding mechanism that winds the stacking member, a regulating mechanism that regulates the stacking member being pulled out to be wound by the winding mechanism, and a releasing mechanism that releases regulation for winding the stacking member by the regulating mechanism. In the stacking member being pulled out, at least a portion of a cross section thereof, in a perpendicular direction to a pull-out direction of the stacking member, has a curved shape. Alternatively, the stacking member is configured to have greater minimum area moment of inertia of a cross section when pulled out, than when wound up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Masanari Takabatake, Mieko Sakurai
  • SHEET STORAGE CASSETTE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120306149
    Abstract: A sheet storage cassette can include a sheet supporting board and a restriction guide. The sheet supporting board can support at least one sheet thereon. The restriction guide can be arranged on the sheet supporting board and include a sheet holding surface that is substantially perpendicular to the sheet support board. The restriction guide can further include a mark indicated part at an upper side thereof, where the mark indicated part can extend at least partly along a plane that intersects a plane of the holding surface and can indicate a maximum storage capacity level of the sheet storage cassette.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: OKI DATA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro SUNOHARA
  • Automatic document feeder with sheet detector
    Patent number: 8322710
    Abstract: An automatic sheet feeder includes a sheet setting unit to set a sheet to be fed by a sheet feeding member, an openably closable cover rotatably disposed over an upper portion of the sheet setting unit, a sheet detector rotatably supported on the cover to detect whether or not a sheet is set on the sheet setting unit and including a detection member, a rotary shaft about which the detection member rotates, and a sensor to detect the setting of the sheet according to a movement of the detection member, and a rotating member to cause the detection member to rotate in a direction such that an angle between a line extending in a longitudinal direction of the detection member and a surface of the sheet set on the sheet setting unit decreases as the cover rotates from an open position to a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Andoh, Kohji Hatayama, Yohei Osanai, Satoshi Narai, Taku Kudoh
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 8322711
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a vibration sensor that transmits a detection signal in response to a vibration pattern and a sheet feeder cassette unit that stores recording papers, is opened/closed by extraction/insertion, and generates a specific vibration pattern while being opened or closed. The image forming apparatus includes an open/close detector unit that detects an opened/closed state of the sheet feeder cassette unit when detecting a predetermined vibration pattern based on the detection signal of the vibration sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Hayama, Chikashi Kajikawa
  • SHEET SIZE SETTING DEVICE, SHEET FEEDER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120299237
    Abstract: A sheet size setting device includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes a tubular holing portion having a first area and a second area in an axial direction. The second member is assembled with the first member movably in the axial direction of the tubular holding portion and includes a second indicator and a second detectable portion. A movement of the second member in the axial direction is restricted by a restricting portion. The restricting portion restricts the movement of the second member in the axial direction when the tubular holding portion is located at a first rotational position and permits the movement of the second member in the axis direction, thereby causing the second indicator to reach the first area and the second detectable portion to reach the second area, when the tubular holding portion is located at a second rotational position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Keisuke Mizuguchi, Masaaki Maruta
  • Recording apparatus
    Patent number: 8317187
    Abstract: A recording apparatus of the disclosure includes a recording unit that performs a recording process on a subject recording medium, a cassette body that accommodates the subject recording medium, a subject recording medium cassette opening that is provided in the cassette body and supplies the subject recording medium therefrom, a movable portion that switches to a closed state in which the subject recording medium cassette opening is closed or an opened state in which the subject recording medium is able to be supplied from the subject recording medium cassette opening, a lock portion that locks the movable portion in the closed state, and an insertion portion that is provided in the movable portion so that a feeding roller is able to be inserted therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Kondo, Shintaro Komuro, Satoshi Kawamura, Shoma Kudo
  • Paper delivering device
    Patent number: 8317186
    Abstract: A paper delivering device includes a delivering module and a detecting module. The delivering module includes a paper tray for supporting at least one paper, at least one roller attached on the paper tray for delivering the at least one paper, and a blocking member pivotably attached to the paper tray. The detecting module detects whether the at least one paper is placed in a position predetermined as correct. The blocking member is locked at a first position to prevent the sliding movement of the at least one paper when the at least one paper is not placed at the predetermined position, or may be rotated to a second position to allow the forward movement of the at least one paper when the at least one paper is correctly placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuo-Ming Lai
  • Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 8317189
    Abstract: A movable side regulating plate is provided on a frame body. The movable side regulating plate regulates side edges in a width direction of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking plate, and is movable in the width direction. A sheet pressing portion configured to press the side edges of the sheets and press the sheets onto a stationary side regulating plate is provided on the movable side regulating plate. The sheet pressing portion has a relief shape for reducing a pressing force exerted on the sheets when an amount of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking plate becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined amount. The relief shape is formed so that a downstream edge in a sheet feeding direction of a lower surface is located higher than an upstream edge in the sheet feeding direction of an upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Ueda, Shuji Nishitani, Kazushi Nishitaka, Masato Tanabe, Satoshi Tsuda
  • Modular print system
    Patent number: 8317188
    Abstract: A modular print system which includes media cartridges instead of manually loaded feed trays. The print system includes a print module including a keyed entrance, and sealed cartridge containing media and including a keyed exit corresponding to the keyed entrance. The cartridge is removably attached to the print module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Horng Jaan Lin, Dale R. Lyons
  • PAPER TRANSMITTING APPARATUS FOR PRINTER
    Publication number: 20120280446
    Abstract: A paper transmitting apparatus for a printer, comprises a bracket comprising a paper tray mounted thereon, the paper tray is adapted to receive a piece of paper in the paper tray; and a driving mechanism comprising a roller rotatablely mounted on the driving mechanism, a sleeve fitted around the roller, a plurality of grains located on an outer surface of the sleeve to increase a surface roughness of the outer surface of the sleeve, the outer surface of the sleeve rests on the piece of paper, and the driving mechanism is adapted to rotate the roller to move the piece of paper on the paper tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: PING-FANG TSAI
  • STACKER
    Publication number: 20120274018
    Abstract: A stacker is described, in particular in an installation of the paper processing industry, for forming a stack of several flat parts to be fed in a transport direction, in particular film sheets or paper sheets, with a stack forming area and a support device for supporting the stack to be formed from the flat parts in the stack forming area. The special nature of the invention lies in that the support device has a plurality of discrete support elements that are at least arranged one behind the other seen in the transport direction of the flat parts and are supported in a moveable manner between a lower position and an upper position at an angle to the transport direction of the flat parts, preferably approximately at right angles to the transport direction A of the flat parts and/or approximately vertically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: KUGLER-WOMAKO GMBH
    Inventor: Wilhelm HEINZ
  • Recording apparatus
    Patent number: 8297614
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a cassette having a stacking region for stacking recording materials mounted to main assembly of the recording apparatus; a feeder for feeding the recording material stacked to the cassette; a sheet discharge portion for sheet discharging the recording material having been subjected to a recording operation; a tray movable between a first position where the recording material is incapable of being discharged from the sheet discharge portion and a second position where the recording material is capable of being discharged from a main assembly of the recording apparatus; a holding portion, disposed on the tray, for holding the recording material discharged when the tray is at the second position; an auxiliary portion disposed on the tray and capable of stacking the recording material with the stacking region when the tray is at the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiki Takeuchi, Haruo Uchida
  • Recording material feeding device, recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus
    Patent number: 8267397
    Abstract: A recording material mounting face portion is provided on which recording materials are stacked for being fed. A body slide portion is attached to the recording material mounting face portion to be slidable in a widthwise or a feeding direction of the recording material. A movable edge guide includes a body operating portion having a guide face that contacts a side of the recording material while being fed and a fixing means that fixes a position of the movable edge guide in a slide direction of the movable edge guide. The fixing means includes notch columns on a surface of the recording material mounting face portion along the slide direction of the movable edge guide and engaging protrusions on the movable edge guide and that engage notches of the notch columns to realize the fixed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masamitsu Shimazu, Yutaka Nakamura
  • Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus with sheet feeding cassette and associated locking means
    Patent number: 8262084
    Abstract: The detachment of a feed roller rotatably supported by a holding portion provided in the main body of an apparatus, and held detachably in the axial direction thereof is restricted by a locking device. The locking device is made movable to a lock position and a lock releasing position for permitting the detachment of the feed roller. Further, when the locking device is in the lock releasing position when a sheet stacking portion is mounted, the locking device is moved to the lock position by a position changeover device in operative association with the mounting operation of the sheet stacking portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazushi Nishikata, Hisayuki Tomura, Akio Nemoto, Kei Sawanaka, Masato Suzuki, Yasuyoshi Hayakawa
  • Paper feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 8256763
    Abstract: A paper feeding apparatus transports paper one by one through a transportation mechanism to an image forming unit of an image forming apparatus. The paper feeding apparatus includes a paper feed cassette to contain paper, a paper side guide arranged in the paper feed cassette to position the paper in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a transport direction of the paper, and a dust removing roller arranged in the paper side guide and in contact with the paper contained in the paper feed cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naritoshi Takamatsu
  • DEVICE FOR ALIGNING NOTES OF VALUE
    Publication number: 20120211935
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (100) for aligning sheet-shaped media (150). The device (100) has a support area (104) on which the at least one sheet-shaped medium (150) to be aligned is supported, a first aligning element (116) and a second aligning element (118) movable in the direction of the first aligning element (116) and opposite to this direction. For aligning the sheet-shaped medium (150), the second aligning element (118) is moved in the direction of the first aligning element (116) by means of a drive unit. Further, a sensor (120 to 126) is provided for detecting a sheet-shaped medium (150) in its detection area (144), the drive unit moving the second aligning element (118) dependent on the detected presence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: WINCOR NIXDORF INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Udo Petermann, Paul Freitag, Richard Düsterhus
  • Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 8246045
    Abstract: A holding mechanism which holds a rear end restricting plate at the restricting position in accordance with the sheet size is configured with a first rack tooth row and a second rack tooth row. The first rack tooth row and the second rack tooth row are arranged at the bottom surface of a cassette body to be the same height along the sheet restricting direction and a first tooth row and a second tooth row are arranged at a restricting member to be the same height along the sheet restricting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinji Kubo
  • SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120205856
    Abstract: A sheet guiding rib protrudes below a sheet suction surface of a plurality of suction conveyer belts, the sheet guiding rib being provided at a position on a downstream side in a sheet conveying direction of a sheet suction region, in which a sheet can be sucked, of the sheet suction surface of the plurality of suction conveyer belts, and between the plurality of suction conveyer belts. At a time of conveying a topmost sheet sucked and deflected downward at a part of pressing a sheet surface detecting flag, a deflection amount of the topmost sheet is reduced by bringing the deflected part of the topmost sheet into abutment against the sheet guiding rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Onodera, Yuya Yokobori, Taro Ikeda
  • SHEET STORAGE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120205860
    Abstract: A sheet storage apparatus 10a (10b) includes a sheet storage portion 31 that loads and stores a plurality of sheets P, and an end cursor (a restriction member) 50 that is disposed in the sheet storage portion 31 and restricts a sheet position. The end cursor 50 is composed of two or more members so as to be foldable and removably fixed in the sheet storage portion 31.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro YAMAGUCHI
  • SHEET WIDTH REGULATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH SHEET WIDTH REGULATING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120205859
    Abstract: A sheet width regulating device includes a base plate, a regulating member, a first moving cursor, a first guiding portion, a second guiding portion, a first guidable portion, a second guidable portion, and a synchronizing member. The regulating member regulates one end of the sheet. The first moving cursor regulates the other end of the sheet, and is movable in the way perpendicular to a direction along the other end of the sheet that the first guiding portion extends. The second guiding portion extends in parallel with the first guiding portion. The first guidable portion is attached to the first moving cursor and guided by the first guiding portion. The second guidable portion is attached to the first moving cursor and guided by the second guiding portion. The synchronizing member synchronizes a movement of the first guidable portion and the second guidable portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Nishioka
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 8240658
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a cassette, a sensor and a controller. The cassette stacks a sheet. The sensor is provided at the rear end of the cassette. When the sensor detects the protrusion of the sheet from the cassette, the controller controls to notify that the sheet protrudes by using an alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yousuke Ushiyama
  • Recording Apparatus
    Publication number: 20120193864
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording section that performs recording on a recording medium, a housing that stores the recording section, a recording medium cassette that is detachably mounted on the housing and has a cassette body that holds the recording medium in the vertical position, and a holder that holds the recording medium that has been fed from the cassette body and has been recorded in the recording section on the outer surface of the cassette body in the vertical position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoda, Takehiko Saito, Sanshiro Takeshita, Hidenao Suzuki
  • Sheet media stack imaging system
    Patent number: 8223407
    Abstract: An imaging system that includes a sheet media stack over a recording unit. Image data is generated in response to radiation received from a field of view encompassing sheet media edges of individual media within the sheet media stack. Edges of individual media are detected within the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Marvell International Technology Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Machida
  • Recording Media Cassette, Recording Apparatus
    Publication number: 20120161381
    Abstract: A recording media cassette includes a lower tray that stores recording media therein, and an upper tray that stores recording media therein and is mounted on the lower tray so as to be detachable from the lower tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Nakamura, Kensuke Tamai, Kazutoshi Matsuzaki, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Kazumasa Harada
  • Device and method for isolating securities of a stack of securities
    Patent number: 8205874
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for separating notes of value of a value note stack. The device comprises at least one input tray having an opening for the insertion of the value note stack and at least one closing element for closing and opening the opening of the input tray. Further, the device has at least one pressure element for pressing the notes of value inserted into the input tray against a pull-off element. The closing element and the pressure element are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Krüger
  • Planar-media-feed apparatus
    Patent number: 8201822
    Abstract: Apparatus for feeding a planar medium from a host tray with a media cavity, including a feed edge adjacent to which the medium is extracted, a sidewall perpendicular to the feed edge, and a spring plate for lifting the medium towards a feeder; a media carrier nested in the cavity, including an edge guide to prevent the medium from moving toward the sidewall, the edge guide having an alignment face for orienting the medium with respect to the feed edge; and an alignment guide in the cavity and having a media guide and a baseplate wider than the medium and disposed over the spring plate, so that the baseplate is lifted when the spring plate lifts. The alignment face and alignment guide together prevent the medium from skewing with respect to the feed edge while the medium is extracted by the feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Eric P. Hochreiter
  • Paper feeding cassette
    Patent number: 8201821
    Abstract: A paper feeding cassette includes: a cassette case configured to store sheets; a sheet tray on which the sheets are stacked, the sheet tray being rotatably attached to the cassette case; a push-up member configured to push up the sheet tray and rotate the sheet tray in one direction when driving force is input and release the push-up of the sheet tray to allow rotation of the sheet tray in the other direction when the input of the driving force is interrupted; and a buffer member configured to be nipped by the cassette case and the sheet tray and elastically deformed when the sheet tray rotates in the other direction. The buffer member is located, when viewed from a stacking direction of the sheets, in an area closer to a rotation axis of the sheet tray than a distal end of the sheet tray that is most distant from the rotation axis in the sheet tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Ohno, Kazumasa Yasui
  • Media cassette
    Patent number: 8196920
    Abstract: A media cassette comprises a housing defining a closeable pick window; an urging plate biased towards the pick window for urging a stack of media items towards the pick window; a detent located distal from the pick window for limiting movement of the urging plate when the pick window is closed; and a detent moving mechanism operable to move the detent when the pick window is opened. The media cassette allows the urging plate to exert less force on the stack of media items by expanding the space available for media items located within the cassette by activating the detent moving mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Scott H. Deas
  • Lock mechanism
    Patent number: 8196919
    Abstract: A lock mechanism is disclosed for a sheet store adapted for the dispensing or accepting of sheets. The sheet store comprises a container having a lid operable for access to the interior of the container and a shutter operable for the passage of sheets therethrough. The lock mechanism comprises: a locking plate movable relative to the container, the locking plate being operable to control a lid lock element and a shutter lock element; and an actuator arranged to control movement of the locking plate. The locking plate is movable between three positions, including: a closed position, in which the shutter lock element prevents opening of the shutter; a primed position, in which the shutter can be opened; and an open position which controls the lid lock element to permit opening of the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Talaris Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Steven Copestake, Steven Michael Hosking, Fiona Joan Mancini
  • Sheet feeder having lifting unit
    Patent number: 8177223
    Abstract: A lifting unit and a process for lifting a stack of sheets having at least a first support (20, 120, 220) and at least a second support (22, 122, 222) are described. The first support defines a first con-toured or flat support surface, and the second support defines a second support surface which has a substantially horizontal, flat main surface. In the lifting unit at least one unit is provided for lifting the first and second supports. During operation the supports are lifted such that at least a highest point of the first support is kept elevationally above the second support, the second support is lifted more quickly than the first support, and the substantially horizontal, flat main surface of the second support is kept in its horizontal alignment. The lifting unit is described, in combination with a sheet feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Eckhard Bauer, Soenke C. Bluethgen, Dimitrios Kostudis, Jorg Leyser, Ingo Neuber, Stefan Schluenss
  • RECORDING MEDIUM DELIVERY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20120112402
    Abstract: A sheet delivery device (80) includes a sheet presser member (61), which is positioned in the vicinity of a sheet delivery port (53) on a downstream side in a sheet delivery direction, for pressing a trailing end of a sheet to be delivered from the sheet delivery port (53). The sheet presser member (61) includes a side surface portion (61a), which is positioned to face a leading end of the sheet to be delivered from the sheet delivery port (53) and a bottom surface portion (61b) which is projected from a lower end of the side surface portion (61a) toward the downstream side in the sheet delivery direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuzo ONISHI
  • System for Feeding and Separating Media in an Image Forming Device
    Publication number: 20120104683
    Abstract: A system for feeding and separating media in an image forming device according to one embodiment includes a pick mechanism having at least one rotatable pick roller for feeding a topmost media sheet from a stack of media sheets in a media storage location in a media process direction from an initial pick position into a media feed path. The system further includes at least one rotatable separator roller positioned opposite and spaced away from the at least one pick roller downstream from the initial pick position. The separator roller forms an open nip with the at least one pick roller. The at least one separator roller is rotatable counter to the media process direction for separating the topmost media sheet from an adjacent media sheet and returning the adjacent media sheet to a separation point upstream from the at least one separator roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Brian Allen Blair, Dustin Daniel Fichter, Derek Masami Inouye, Jeffrey Lawrence Tonges, Edward Lynn Triplett
  • DOCUMENT FEEDING DEVICE THAT PERFORMS AN INITIAL OPERATION, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A DOCUMENT FEEDING DEVICE THAT PERFORMS AN INITIAL OPERATION
    Publication number: 20120104692
    Abstract: Provided is a document feeding device including: a document feeding portion for feeding a document; a document set detecting portion for detecting presence/absence of a set document; a determination portion for determining whether power supply to the device is started by turning-on of main power or by cancellation of a power saving mode; an initial operation portion for performing an initial operation of initializing the document feeding portion when the power supply to the document feeding device is started by the turning-on of the main power, and restricting execution of the initial operation when the power supply to the document feeding device is started by the cancellation of the power saving mode; and a display portion for displaying, when there is a set document at the start of the power supply, a request to reset the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidehiro TABUCHI
  • OPEN/CLOSE MECHANISM FOR PAPER TRAY FOR USE IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120104685
    Abstract: An open/close mechanism can be used for paper trays of an image forming apparatus. The open/close mechanism includes a plate member provided on a side of a housing of the image forming apparatus and configured to pivot upon an axis between an open position and a close position, and a box member that is arranged in the housing beneath the plate member and that can be drawn out of the housing from the side. The open/close mechanism includes also includes a restricting unit that is coupled to the plate member and that abuts against the box member when the box member is set in the housing and when the plate member is in the open position thereby restricting detachment of the box member from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshikane NISHII, Kazuhiro Wakamatsu, Yasuhide Ohkubo, Ippei Kimura, Mizuna Tanaka, Haruyuki Honda, Masafumi Takahira, Hiroshi Fujiwara
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INLINE CUTTING AND STACKING OF SHEETS FOR FORMATION OF BOOKS
    Publication number: 20120098184
    Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for aligning, feeding, trimming, slitting, rotating, cross-slitting and stacking sheets, each containing one or more discrete page images thereon that allows for greater automation of the overall process so that reduced or no manual intervention is required to generate completed book stacks or “blocks” from a stream or stack of printed sheets. Sheets are fed to a first, upstream trimming station to remove margin edges and optionally separate the sheets relative to the discrete page images. The sheets are then rotated 90 degrees and fed to a second, downstream trimming station that trims the right-angle edges and optionally separates the sheets into a final group of full-bleed pages, removing margins and gutter strips. The sheets are fed to a stacking assembly to be tacked in page order and any rejected, defective sheets or stacks are removed from the order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: LASERMAX ROLL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven P. Lewalski, Hans Eliasson, Bruce J. Taylor, Richard Sjostedt, Sean Stewart, Edward J. Zanchi
  • IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120091650
    Abstract: An image recording device includes a first roller, a plurality of second rollers, a tray, and a recording portion. The tray includes a pair of thick-walled sections, a thin-walled section, and an accommodation portion. The pair of thick-walled sections extends in a lengthwise direction and protrudes from the first surface. The thin-walled section is positioned between the pair of thick-walled sections. The thin-walled section is thinner than the pair of thick-walled sections in a thickness direction of the tray. The accommodation portion is formed by a recess in the thickness direction in the thin-walled section. When the first roller and the plurality of second rollers nip the tray therebetween, the first surface of the tray does not contact any of the first roller or the plurality of second rollers, except at the pair of thick-walled sections of the tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhira Ota, Iwane Sano