MEDIUM SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20240101371A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-28

    申请号:US18188466

    申请日:2023-03-23

    IPC分类号: B65H3/14 B65H5/22 B65H7/02

    摘要: A medium supply device includes: a stacking unit in which media are stackable in a vertical direction; a first regulating unit that is provided on the stacking unit and that regulates positions of side portions of the media in a width direction; a supply unit that supplies air to more than one of the media stacked on the stacking unit so that the more than one of the media are raised and separated from each other; a transport unit that successively feeds the media that are raised and separated from each other by the supply unit; a detection unit that detects conditions of the media that are raised and separated from each other by the supply unit from outside in the width direction; a second regulating unit that is attached to an upper section of the stacking unit when the media stacked in the stacking unit are second media and that regulates positions of side portions of the second media in the width direction, the second media having a smaller dimension than first media in the width direction; and a moving unit that moves the detection unit to an area in which the second media are detectable when the second regulating unit is attached.

    ACCOMMODATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20220081242A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-17

    申请号:US17155407

    申请日:2021-01-22

    IPC分类号: B65H11/00

    摘要: An accommodating device includes: a main body portion; a pulling-out portion on which recording media are loaded, the pulling-out portion being capable of being pulled out from the main body portion; a prevention portion configured to prevent the pulling-out portion from being pulled out by being locked to the main body portion in a state where the pulling-out portion is housed in the main body portion; and a fixing portion configured to fix the pulling-out portion to the main body portion in the state where the pulling-out portion is housed in the main body portion.

    SHEET-SHAPED-MEDIUM FEEDER AND SHEET-SHAPED-MEDIUM HANDLING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20220081232A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-17

    申请号:US17224136

    申请日:2021-04-07

    IPC分类号: B65H1/04 B41J11/00 B65H1/08

    摘要: A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that includes line members to vertically raise or lower the mount portion by hanging the mount portion with the line members, and a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion. The mount portion is changeable to a long mount portion capable of receiving long sheet-shaped media by extending, further upstream in a transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media, an upstream end portion of the mount portion in the transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media. The lift has the line members attached at a portion of the long mount portion corresponding to an unchanged portion of the mount portion, and at a portion of the long mount portion corresponding to an extended portion of the mount portion.

    MEDIUM FEEDING DEVICE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230312279A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-05

    申请号:US17887019

    申请日:2022-08-12

    IPC分类号: B65H3/48 B65H7/02

    摘要: A medium feeding device includes a container member that accommodates sheet media, a discharging member located further than the media accommodated in the container member in a discharging direction in which the media are discharged, to discharge the media one by one, a hand-over member disposed above the container member to suck the media accommodated in the container member with air and pass the media to the discharging member, a floating device disposed on a side of the media accommodated in the container member to blow air to an upper area of a side end surface of the media to float the media while an upper portion of the media is separated, a detector that detects a separation state of the medium floated by the floating device, and a controller that controls a medium-feeding operation including a pre-feeding blowing operation and a during-feeding blowing operation, the pre-feeding blowing operation serving as an air blowing operation performed by the floating device before the medium is fed, and the during-feeding blowing operation serving as an air blowing operation performed by the floating device from a start of feeding the medium and an end of feeding the medium. While performing the pre-feeding blowing operation or the during-feeding blowing operation, the controller performs detection with the detector, and on condition that a result of the detection fails to satisfy a preset target range, the controller changes a parameter for the medium-feeding operation including at least one of the pre-feeding blowing operation or the during-feeding blowing operation.