Sheet conveyance unit and sheet conveyance system including same

    公开(公告)号:US10919720B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-16

    申请号:US16359205

    申请日:2019-03-20

    Abstract: A sheet conveyance unit includes a sheet inlet port, an inlet guide, and a guide switching mechanism. The inlet guide has an upper guide and a lower guide below the upper guide. The guide switching mechanism switches a position of the inlet guide between a conveyance position at which the upper guide and the lower guide face each other with a first distance and a separation position at which the upper guide and the lower guide are spaced from each other by a second distance greater than the first distance. To connect the sheet conveyance unit to the sheet discharge unit, the inlet guide is disposed to the separation position before the discharge guide is inserted between the upper guide and the lower guide, and is disposed to the conveyance position after the discharge guide is inserted between the upper guide and the lower guide.

    Sheet feeder, and image forming device provided therewith
    3.
    发明授权
    Sheet feeder, and image forming device provided therewith 有权
    片材进给器和与其一起提供的图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US09592979B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-14

    申请号:US14913864

    申请日:2014-10-06

    Inventor: Masayuki Kakuta

    Abstract: A sheet feeder includes a tray, a paper feed member, a first detection section, and a second detection section. The tray has a placement surface having an upper surface on which a sheet is placed. The paper feed member is arranged on an entrance side of a sheet conveyance path and conveys the sheet in a conveyance direction. The first detection section detects a leading end side in the conveyance direction of the sheet placed on the placement surface. The second detection section detects a trailing end side in the conveyance direction of the sheet placed on the placement surface. The second detection section is arranged at an end section of the tray on a trailing end side in the conveyance direction.

    Abstract translation: 送纸器包括托盘,送纸构件,第一检测部和第二检测部。 托盘具有放置表面,其具有放置片材的上表面。 送纸构件布置在片材输送路径的入口侧,并在输送方向上输送片材。 第一检测部检测放置在放置面上的片材的输送方向的前端侧。 第二检测部检测位于放置面上的片材的输送方向的后端侧。 第二检测部配置在托盘的输送方向的后端侧的端部。

    CONVEYANCE GUIDE UNIT
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210362974A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-25

    申请号:US17328499

    申请日:2021-05-24

    Abstract: The conveyance guide unit is provided with a guide member, a supporting frame, and an external cover. The guide member guides a sheet, which is discharged from a sheet discharge port of the image forming apparatus or from a sheet discharge port of a relay conveyance device installed in the image forming apparatus, to the sheet carrying-in port of a post-processing device. The supporting frame supports the guide member. The external cover is fixed to the supporting frame; the external cover covers an upper part of the guide member and side parts of the guide member in a traverse direction of a sheet conveyance path, which is perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction. The external cover has an upper surface serving as an extension part of a discharge tray part of the post-processing device, the extension part being extended downstream, in a sheet discharge direction.

    Manual bypass tray having opening for accommodating projection sticking out from side face of image forming apparatus main body, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US12286321B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-29

    申请号:US18136165

    申请日:2023-04-18

    Inventor: Masayuki Kakuta

    Abstract: A manual bypass tray includes a tray main body and an auxiliary tray. A placement surface of the tray main body is provided with an opening. The tray main body includes an opening cover. The auxiliary tray includes a recess. The opening cover is displaced to a retracted posture, thereby being accommodated inside the recess, together with a protruding portion protruding from a side face of a main body of an image forming apparatus, when the tray main body is in a storage position with the auxiliary tray accommodated therein, displaced to a closing posture, when the tray main body is in a sheet feeding position with the auxiliary tray accommodated therein, and displaced to a closing posture when the tray main body is in the sheet feeding position, with the auxiliary tray drawn out from the inside of the tray main body.

    Document conveying apparatus, document reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10009493B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-26

    申请号:US15331314

    申请日:2016-10-21

    Inventor: Masayuki Kakuta

    Abstract: A document conveying apparatus includes a document reversing part, a stacking tray stacking the document, a discharge tray provided under the stacking tray, a lift member provided downstream in a document conveyance direction of the stacking tray and configured to be turnable upward such that a downstream end of the document stacked on the stacking tray comes into contact with a feed roller disposed above the stacking tray, a first document conveyance path defined downstream in the document conveyance direction of the feed roller to the document reading part, a second document conveyance path defined from the document reading part to the discharge tray, and a third document conveyance path defined from a middle of the second document conveyance path through the document reversing part, wherein a bottom surface part of the lift member defines a part of an upper part of the third document conveyance path.

    Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus having the same
    9.
    发明授权
    Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus having the same 有权
    片材输送装置及其成像装置

    公开(公告)号:US09546062B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-17

    申请号:US15074357

    申请日:2016-03-18

    Inventor: Masayuki Kakuta

    Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a first tray, a conveying portion, a second tray, and a conveyance control portion. The conveying portion has: a first conveying path that extends from the first tray; a second conveying path that makes the first conveying path and the second tray communicate with each other and is provided with an ejecting roller pair; a third conveying path that makes the second conveying path and an ejecting space communicate with each other and is provided with a reverse roller pair. After a first sheet passes through the reference position, the conveyance control portion stops rotation of the ejecting roller pair with the first sheet conveyed in the second conveying path nipped by the sheet ejecting roller pair, and after a second sheet passes through the reference position, the conveyance control portion rotates the reverse roller pair with the rotation of the ejecting roller pair stopped.

    Abstract translation: 片材输送装置包括第一托盘,输送部分,第二托盘和输送控制部分。 输送部具有:从第一托盘延伸的第一输送路径; 第二输送路径,其使第一输送路径和第二托盘相互连通并设置有排出辊对; 使第二输送路径和排出空间相互连通并设置有反向辊对的第三输送路径。 在第一片材通过基准位置之后,输送控制部分停止由在片材排出辊对夹持的第二输送路径中输送的第一片材​​的排出辊对的旋转,在第二片材通过基准位置之后, 输送控制部分随着排出辊对的旋转而停止转动反转辊对。

    Image forming apparatus with a document conveying unit capable of efficiently performing a document reading operation
    10.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus with a document conveying unit capable of efficiently performing a document reading operation 有权
    具有能够有效地执行文件读取操作的文档传送单元的图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US08773679B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-07-08

    申请号:US13670517

    申请日:2012-11-07

    Abstract: A control unit for controlling a document conveying operation stops the conveyance of a document by a document conveying unit if document(s) is/are placed on a placing portion, the document is being conveyed and an upper structure is not in a closing posture. Further, the control unit stops the conveyance of the document when the trailing end of the document being conveyed has not passed a document reading position and, on the other hand, causes the document to be discharged to a document discharging portion without stopping the conveyance of the document when the trailing end has passed the document reading position if no document is placed on the placing portion, the document is being conveyed and the upper structure is not in the closing posture.

    Abstract translation: 用于控制文件传送操作的控制单元如果文档被放置在放置部分上,文档被传送并且上部结构不处于关闭姿势,则停止由文档传送单元传送文档。 此外,当传送的文件的尾端没有通过文件阅读位置时,控制单元停止文件的传送,另一方面使得文件被排出到文件排出部分而不停止传送文档 当文件没有放置在放置部分上时,尾端已经通过文档读取位置的文档,文档被传送并且上部结构不处于关闭姿势。

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