Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Takeshi Yamagata

Takamitsu Sunaoshi

Shunsuke Hattori

Takahiro Kokubo

Misato Ishikawa

Kazuhiro Mukai

Yuko Kobayashi

Masahito Kochiwa

Mitsuhiro Saitou

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

A printing apparatus has a driving motor being rotatable in the forward and backward directions, a first gear for receiving the torque of the motor, a swaying arm secured to an end of the first gear, a printing unit including a plurality of ribbon cassettes superposed on one another, and convey mechanism for conveying document or passbook to the printing unit. The printing unit comprises a taking-up gear for independently taking-up ink ribbons contained in ribbon cassettes, a cam mechanism for selectively shifting the ink ribbons to allow one to pass a printing head, and a second gear for transmitting the torque of the motor from the first gear to the taking-up gear or to the cam mechanism in accordance with sway of the swaying arm.

Printing apparatus with multiple ribbon cassettes

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Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan

Takeshi Yamagata