Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Mitsuhiro Saitou

Takamitsu Sunaoshi

Shunsuke Hattori

Takahiro Kokubo

Misato Ishikawa

Kazuhiro Mukai

Yuko Kobayashi

Takeshi Yamagata

Masahito Kochiwa

Hiroyuki Fukuyo

Noboru Nakamura

According to an embodiment, a stacking apparatus includes: a first precedent-stage conveyor unit that conveys first sheets; a second precedent-stage conveyor unit that conveys second sheets; a merging unit that guides, to a merge point, the first sheets output from the first precedent-stage conveyor unit and guides, to the merge point, the second sheets output from the second precedent-stage conveyor unit; a subsequent-stage conveyor unit that sequentially receives, at the merge point, the conveyed first sheets and the conveyed second sheets, and conveys the received first sheets and the received second sheets in order of the reception while lining up in a conveying direction; and a stacking unit that sequentially catches each of the first sheets and each of the second sheets and stacks, at a predetermined position, each of the first sheets and each of the second sheets in order of the catch.

Stacking apparatus and stacking method

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Saitama Saitama, Japan

Mitsuhiro Saitou