Sheet discharge device, and document conveying device and image forming apparatus provided therewith

    公开(公告)号:US11347174B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US17235742

    申请日:2021-04-20

    Abstract: A sheet discharge device includes: a sheet discharge portion; a sheet stacking portion having a sheet stacking surface for stacking a sheet discharged from the sheet discharge portion; and a stopper in the sheet stacking portion against which, for alignment, the leading end of the sheet discharged from the sheet discharge portion is thrust. The stopper has a support portion, a restricting portion, and an urging mechanism. The restricting portion is supported pivotally on a pivot shaft on the support portion, and is arranged either in a retracted position to lie flat substantially horizontally along the sheet stacking surface or in a restricting position to stand upright substantially vertically to the sheet stacking surface. The urging mechanism urges the restricting portion, when in retracted position, in a direction from restricting position to retracted position and, when in restricting position, in a direction from retracted position to restricting position.

    Pivotable tray for jam clearance in sheet folding device

    公开(公告)号:US11001467B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-11

    申请号:US16510683

    申请日:2019-07-12

    Abstract: A paper sheet folding device (sheet folding device) 160 includes a paper sheet folding unit 60 and a tray unit 110 that is provided on one side surface 161a of a device main body 161 and includes a lower discharge tray 121 on which a paper sheet S discharged through a lower discharge port 85 is loaded. The tray unit 110 is pivotable in an up-down direction about a pivotal shaft 111. A discharge drive mechanism 132 is disposed at a center portion of the tray unit 110 in a paper sheet width direction.

    SHEET FEEDER FOR FEEDING SHEET AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH SHEET FEEDER
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    发明申请
    SHEET FEEDER FOR FEEDING SHEET AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH SHEET FEEDER 有权
    纸张进纸器和图像加工设备

    公开(公告)号:US20130147107A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-06-13

    申请号:US13705458

    申请日:2012-12-05

    Abstract: A sheet feeder includes a sheet placing portion, a feeding member, a supporting body, a driver, an electromagnetic clutch and a retraction controller. The supporting body is capable of changing a posture between a sheet feeding posture of the feeding member and a retracting posture for retracting the feeding member. The electromagnetic clutch is capable of changing a state between an engaged state in which a drive force is transmitted to the supporting body and a disengaged state in which the drive force is not transmitted to the supporting body. The retraction controller stops the output of a drive force after the electromagnetic clutch is set in the engaged state and the supporting body is set to the retracting posture by the drive force, and sets the electromagnetic clutch in the disengaged state when an engagement keeping time elapses after the output of the drive force is stopped.

    Abstract translation: 送纸器包括纸张放置部分,馈送部件,支撑体,驱动器,电磁离合器和收缩控制器。 支撑体能够改变进给构件的供纸姿态和用于缩回供给构件的缩回姿势之间的姿势。 电磁离合器能够改变在驱动力传递到支撑体的接合状态和驱动力不传递到支撑体的分离状态之间的状态。 退磁控制器在将电磁离合器设定在接合状态之后停止驱动力的输出,并且通过驱动力将支撑体设定为回缩姿势,并且当接合保持时间经过时将电磁离合器设定在脱离状态 驱动力的输出停止后。

    Locking mechanism for movable unit, and sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus provided therewith

    公开(公告)号:US10597243B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-24

    申请号:US16049254

    申请日:2018-07-30

    Abstract: A locking mechanism includes a hook, an engaged portion, and a biasing member, and locks a movable unit supported on a unit main body to the unit main body. The hook has a supporting portion pivotably supported on the unit main body and an engaging portion protruding from the supporting portion. The engaged portion is formed on the movable unit and is engageable with the engaging portion. A biasing member biases the hook in such a direction as to let the engaging and engaged portions engage. The hook has a first face facing the engaged portion at the tip end of the engaging portion and a second face extending from the first face toward the supporting portion and inclined relative to the first face in such a direction as to recede from the pivot. With the engaging and engaged portion in engagement, the engaged portion touches only the second face.

    DOCUMENT SHEET TRANSPORTATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED THEREWITH

    公开(公告)号:US20180257888A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-13

    申请号:US15917959

    申请日:2018-03-12

    Abstract: A document sheet transportation device includes a feeding portion which feeds a document sheet from a document sheet placement portion toward a document sheet transportation path. The feeding portion includes a holder, a feeding member, a supporting body supported by the holder, a rotatable stopper member having a contact end portion allowed to contact a front end of a document sheet, and a biasing member which applies a biasing force to the stopper member. The stopper member is allowed to change a position among a first position in which the contact end portion contacts the front end of the document sheet, a second position which allows feeding of the document sheet by the feeding member, and a third position which is rotated in the first rotating direction from the second position. The biasing member applies the biasing force to the stopper member in a reverse second rotating direction.

    Opening and closing device and image scanner unit

    公开(公告)号:US10012945B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-03

    申请号:US15260913

    申请日:2016-09-09

    Abstract: A base portion includes a cam surface formed around a support pin. A turning portion includes: a slide member provided movably in directions toward and away from the support pin; and a coil spring urging the slide member. The slide member is designed to slide on the cam surface while turning, together with an openable body, about the support pin. The cam surface includes a first sliding surface, a second sliding surface, and a third sliding surface. The first sliding surface presses the slide member back in a direction of closing of the openable body. The second sliding surface presses the slide member back in a direction of opening of the openable body. The third sliding surface presses the slide member back in the direction of closing of the openable body.

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