MEDIUM DISCHARGE DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20240317538A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18559521

    申请日:2021-05-19

    申请人: PFU LIMITED

    IPC分类号: B65H43/08 B65H29/12 B65H29/14

    摘要: Provided are a medium ejection apparatus, a control method, and a control program to enable precise determination of whether abnormal ejection of a medium has occurred. A medium ejection apparatus includes an ejection roller to eject a medium, a tray to stack the medium ejected by the ejection roller, a first optical sensor located above the ejection roller and including a first light emitter to emit light toward the tray and a first light receiver to generate a first optical signal based on received light, a second optical sensor located above the ejection roller and including a second light emitter to emit light toward a downstream side of the tray in a medium ejecting direction and a second light receiver to generate a second optical signal based on received light, a determination module to determine whether abnormal ejection of the medium has occurred based on the first optical signal and the second optical signal, and a control module to execute abnormality processing when it is determined that abnormal ejection of the medium has occurred.

    CARD ISSUING DEVICE
    2.
    发明公开
    CARD ISSUING DEVICE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240092607A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-21

    申请号:US18467189

    申请日:2023-09-14

    IPC分类号: B65H43/08 B65H1/06

    摘要: A card issuing device for using with a plurality of cards includes a card storage part which accommodates the plurality of cards, a card send-out mechanism which sends out a card among the plurality of cards from the card storage part, a card conveyance mechanism which conveys the card sent out by the card send-out mechanism toward a card discharge port along a card conveyance passage connected with the card discharge port, an optical sensor which is located on a lower side with respect to the card conveyance passage and reads a code indicated on a rear face of the card, and a dust adhesion prevention mechanism which prevents dust from adhering to a reading face of the optical sensor when the optical sensor is not used.

    CARD CONVEYANCE UNIT
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230348213A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-02

    申请号:US18305385

    申请日:2023-04-24

    IPC分类号: B65H43/08 B65H3/06 B65H1/04

    摘要: A card conveyance unit having a plurality of card cassettes, a carriage for a card, a carriage conveyance passage extended along a plurality of the card cassettes, a code reader for reading a code indicated on the card, and a control part for controlling a card send-out mechanism, a carriage moving mechanism, a conveying mechanism in the carriage and the code reader. The control part drives the carriage moving mechanism to arrange the carriage at a card taking-in position, drives the card send-out mechanism and the conveying mechanism to take a card into the carriage from a card cassette, drives the carriage moving mechanism to move the carriage to a reading position for the code of the card held by the carriage and controls the code reader to perform a reading operation of the code, and drives the conveying mechanism to send out the card and issued.

    Medium conveying device and determination method

    公开(公告)号:US11765291B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-19

    申请号:US17501869

    申请日:2021-10-14

    申请人: PFU Limited

    发明人: Kenichi Tamura

    IPC分类号: B65H43/08 H04N1/00 G03G15/00

    摘要: In a medium conveying device, a projector projects light, a projection light amount of the light changes, at every fixed time, to a first projection light amount and a second projection light amount less than the first projection light amount, a receiver receives the light projected from the projector, a processor determines, at fixed sampling timings, whether a reception light amount of the receiver is at a first reception light level or a second reception light level smaller than the first reception light level, determines, when the reception light amount alternately changes to the first reception light level and the second reception light level, that a medium is not present on a conveying path, and determines, when the reception light amount is fixed to either the first reception light level or the second reception light level, that the medium is present on the conveying path.

    SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220332536A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-20

    申请号:US17712778

    申请日:2022-04-04

    摘要: A sheet processing apparatus comprising: a conveying unit configured to have a roller that conveys a sheet in a conveyance direction; a first detecting device disposed downstream of the conveying unit in the conveyance direction; a second detecting device disposed downstream of the first detecting device in the conveyance direction; a boring unit configured to have a punch that performs boring in the sheet; and a control unit is used. The first detecting device and the second detecting device each detect passage of a leading edge of the sheet being conveyed. The control unit calculates an actual conveyance speed of the sheet on the basis of detection results of the first detecting device and the second detecting device, and controls rotation of the roller, on the basis of the actual conveyance speed, so that the sheet is conveyed at a predetermined target speed.

    Sheet sorting apparatus and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11370633B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US16852046

    申请日:2020-04-17

    摘要: A sheet sorting apparatus includes a first tray detachable from an apparatus main body, a second tray arranged below the first tray, a discharge unit to discharge a sheet to the first or second tray, a tray detecting unit to detect that the first tray is detached from the apparatus main body, a full stack detecting unit to detect a fully stacked condition of the first tray, and a control unit to control the discharge unit. In a case where the tray detecting unit detects that the first tray is detached from the apparatus main body, the control unit controls the discharge unit not to discharge a sheet to the second tray when a number of sheets discharged to the second tray reaches a threshold number of sheets, even though the full stack detecting unit does not detect the fully stacked condition.

    Image reading apparatus and control method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11218611B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-04

    申请号:US16886216

    申请日:2020-05-28

    IPC分类号: H04N1/00 B65H43/08

    摘要: An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a transport unit that transport a document, a feeding unit that transports the document to the transport unit, a controller that stops the feeding operation of the feeding unit after the leading end of the preceding document transported from the feeding unit reaches the transport unit and restarts the feeding operation after the rear end of the preceding document passes a predetermined position. The controller, restarts the feeding operation a first time after the rear end of the succeeding document following the preceding document passes the predetermined position when a size of the preceding document indicates a first size, and restarts the feeding operation a second time after the rear end of the succeeding document passes the predetermined position where the second time is longer than the first time when the size indicates a second size larger than the first size.

    Collating Machine and Method
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210395035A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-23

    申请号:US17289288

    申请日:2019-10-29

    IPC分类号: B65H43/08 B65H31/34

    摘要: The present invention relates to an alignment system for sheets of material using a sensor to detect reference features in the sheets. The sensor uses components within or on the sheet to accurately position the sheet relative to the sensor and hence relative to a machine.

    Sheet discharge apparatus and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11180337B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-23

    申请号:US16413748

    申请日:2019-05-16

    摘要: A sheet discharge apparatus includes a pivot member pivoting in an up-down direction by being pressed by a sheet discharged from a sheet discharging portion, with the pivot member retained by being in contact with an uppermost sheet supported on the sheet supporting portion. A control unit changes a sheet interval between a preceding sheet and a succeeding sheet and executes a first discharge operation in which at least one sheet is discharged, and a second discharge operation in which sheets are discharged by the sheet discharging portion at a first sheet interval such that the pivot member does not contact with an uppermost sheet supported on the sheet supporting portion during the second discharge operation, and the control unit acquires a number of sheets to be discharged in the second discharge operation based on a detected position of the pivot member detected during the first discharge operation.