Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Satoru Takano

Yasuo Niikura

Junya Suzuki

Ryo Takahashi

Hidetoshi Kojima

Kei Sasaki

Kazunori Konno

Takashi Fukumoto

Kiichiro Goto

Takamasa Matsumoto

Youhei Niitsuma

Kohjiroh Haga

Yuuta Mori

Shintaro Matsumoto

Tadashi Matsuoka

Hikaru Fukasawa

Ryo Kanno

Atsunori Yoshida

Yousuke Edo

Yasushi Tsuruoka

Yasunori Hino

Masahiro Tamura

Takahiro Watanabe

Tomohiro Furuhashi

Shuuya Nagasako

Akira Kunieda

Keisuke Sugiyama

Tomomichi Hoshino

Hidehiko Fujiwara

Kyosuke Nakada

Takeshi Akai

Kazuhiko Kitano

Kenji Ishii

Yasufumi Takahashi

Toshihiro Shimada

Masaru Yamagishi

Satoshi Aizawa

Hiroshi Komuro

A sheet-material supply device includes a lift, a sheet-material detector, and a sheet-material retaining conveyor. The lift elevates sheet materials in a stacked state. The sheet-material detector detects that an uppermost sheet material of the sheet materials in the stacked state has reached a predetermined height. The sheet-material retaining conveyor retains and conveys the uppermost sheet material that has reached the predetermined height. The sheet-material supply device stops elevation of the sheet materials in the stacked state when the sheet-material detector detects that the uppermost sheet material has reached the predetermined height. The sheet-material retaining conveyor is disposed to be movable in a direction in which the sheet materials in the stacked state elevate.

Sheet-material supply device

A sheet-member separation device includes a first air blower, an attractor, a conveyor, a second air blower, and an adjuster. The first air blower blows air onto a front side of a stack of sheet members in a sheet-member conveyance direction. The attractor attracts an uppermost sheet member floated from the stack of sheet members by the air blown from the first air blower. The conveyor conveys, in the sheet-member conveyance direction, the sheet member attracted by the attractor. The second air blower blows air toward a lateral side of the sheet member. The adjuster moves the second air blower and the attractor together to adjust positions of the second air blower and the attractor in the sheet-member conveyance direction.

Sheet-member separation device, sheet-member separation method, program, and image forming apparatus

A stacking apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a stacking unit, and a separation member supply unit. The conveyance unit conveys sheets for circuit board. The stacking unit stacks the sheets. The separation member supply unit supplies a separation member to separate the stacked sheets at any position. The separation member supply unit places the separation member on the sheet in being conveyed.

Stacking apparatus

A sheet conveyance apparatus includes: a placement part configured such that stacked sheets are disposed on the placement part; a housing including an open/close part and accommodating the placement part, at least a portion of the open/close part being configured to be opened and closed; and a suction unit connected with the housing, and configured to draw gas from an interior of the housing.

Sheet conveyance apparatus and sheet conveyance method

A sheet discharging device includes a shift trayon which a sheet Pis stacked, a discharging rollerthat discharges a sheet Ponto the shift tray, a blowing devicethat sends air to a lower surface of the sheet Pdischarged by the discharging roller, a blocking memberthat blocks air sent to the lower surface of the sheet Pfrom a blowing port-of the blowing device, and a control unit that controls the blocking amount of the blocking member. The blocking amount is determined based upon sheet information including sheet-type information, sheet-size information, and sheet-thickness information, for example.

Sheet discharging device, image forming system, and sheet discharging method

A sheet discharging device includes a shift trayon which a sheet P1 is stacked, a discharging rollerthat discharges a sheet P2 onto the shift tray, a blowing devicethat sends air to a lower surface of the sheet P2 discharged by the discharging roller, a blocking memberthat blocks air sent to the lower surface of the sheet P2 from a blowing port-of the blowing device, and a control unit that controls the blocking amount of the blocking member. The blocking amount is determined based upon sheet information including sheet-type information, sheet-size information, and sheet-thickness information, for example.

A sheet stacking apparatus including: a discharge unit configured to discharge a sheet through a discharge port; a stack unit configured to stack the discharged sheet thereon; and a plurality of blowing units configured to supply air to a discharge side of the discharge unit while the sheet is discharged, wherein the blowing units are disposed, below the discharge port, aligned with a direction perpendicular to a sheet discharge direction.

Sheet stacking apparatus, image forming system and sheet stacking method

A sheet stacking device includes: a stacking unit that stacks thereon a sheet discharged in a sheet discharging direction; a conveying unit that performs a moving-back operation of conveying the stacked sheet in a direction opposite to the sheet discharging direction; a pressing unit that performs a pressing operation of pressing the conveyed sheet; and a driving unit that drives the conveying unit and the pressing unit by a same driving source.

Sheet stacking device, image forming system, and sheet stacking method

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Satoru Takano