Riso Kagaku Corporation

Sansui Electric Co., Ltd.

Omron Corporation

Yasuhiro Fujimoto

Masahiro Ueda

Takahiro Ono

Nobuyoshi Suzuki

Takeshi Kakinuma

Masao Suzuki

Tetsunobu Shibata

Susumu Oshio

Terutoshi Nakao

Shinichi Takahira

Kosai Adachi

Yuji Satoh

A sheet sorter includes an array of a plurality of sorting trays which are mounted on a sorter body and arranged in a vertical direction and a general-purpose tray which is mounted on the sorter body and is larger than each of the sorting trays in capacity so that it accommodates a larger number of sheets than each of the sorting trays. A tray drive mechanism provided in the sorter body moves up and down the sorting trays and the general-purpose tray so that sheets transferred by a transfer mechanism provided in the sorter body are selectively discharged onto the sorting trays or the general-purpose tray. The array of the sorting trays is positioned above the general-purpose tray. The sorting tray array and the general-purpose tray are normally held in a position where the sheet discharge port of the sheet transfer mechanism is positioned between the lowermost tray of the sorting tray array and the general-purpose tray as seen in a vertical direction.

Sheet sorter and method of controlling the sheet sorter

A sheet discharging apparatus includes a conveyor provided at one side of the body of the apparatus, and sorter trays and a large capacity tray provided on the opposing side. Wings are provided each rotatable about a rotation axis, on a discharging side of the conveyor, and a projection is formed in the front side in the sheet conveying direction of each wing. The projection is brought into contact with an urging member provided at a frame of the container which is movable in upward/downward directions. When sorter trays are used, the urging member is separate from the projection, so that upper surface of the wing is below a conveying surface. When the frame and urging member are elevated to use the large capacity tray, the urging member presses the projection upward, and hence wings are elevated to be positioned upper than the conveying surface. When a thick sheet is to be discharged, an operation lever is operated so as to retract the projection, preventing contact between the urging member and a projection. Therefore, the wings are not elevated. Accordingly, the wings can be raised/lowered without any electric mechanism, and a sheet discharging apparatus is provided which enables sure discharge and stacking of sheets on the large capacity tray, regardless of the thickness of the sheets.

Sheet discharging apparatus having mechanically driven wings

A sheet transfer system for transferring sheets on which an image is recorded by an image forming system and discharging the sheets to a tray includes a conveyor belt and a vacuum fan which generates a suction force for attracting the sheets against the conveyor belt. The suction force is stronger at the downstream side portion of the conveyor belt.

Sheet transfer system

A cut sheet feeder for use with an image forming apparatus includes a sheet feed mechanism and a sheet feed unit mechanism. The sheet feed mechanism picks up stacked cut sheets one at a time from a predetermined position and feeds each sheet to an image recording portion. The sheet feed unit is vertically movable relative to the sheet feed mechanism and has a first sheet feed table. The first sheet feed table is located in an upper part of the sheet feed unit and includes a cutout portion for avoiding interference with the sheet feed mechanism when the first sheet feed table moves vertically in combination with the sheet feed unit. A second sheet feed table is located in a lower part of the sheet feed unit and vertically movable relative to the sheet feed unit.

Cut sheet feeder for image forming apparatus

A sorter for sorting sheets successively supplied thereto, comprising: a fixed frame; a movable frame movable vertically with respect to the fixed frame; a plurality of bins arranged one over another at a predetermined distance and each having an upper surface sloping upwardly in a sheet supply direction for receiving thereon one or more of the sheets, the bins being supported on the movable frame; a non-sort bin situated upwardly of the bins and supported pivotally on an upper portion of the movable frame for receiving the non-sorted sheets, the non-sort bin being biased normally so as to slant upwardly in the sheet supply direction; and a holder mounted on the fixed frame, at a position to which the sheets are to be supplied, for holding the non-sorer bin horizontally against the bias.

Sorter having a pivoting non-sort bin

In a paper ejection device for a stencil printing device provided with a lifting member for producing a curvature in each sheet of ejected printing paper as seen in a cross section perpendicular to the direction of paper ejection, the lifting member is allowed to move at least between a first position which is relatively retracted from the paper ejection passage and a second position which relatively protrudes into the paper ejection passage. The movement of the lifting member may be effected according to the size or the kind of the printing paper or depending on whether a sorter is connected to the printer or not. Thus, an appropriate curvature can be given to the ejected printing paper without requiring any manual work by the user. Thus, a satisfactory paper ejecting operation can be ensured at all times without requiring any manual work by the operator of the stencil printing device.

Paper ejection device for a stencil printing device

A record player wherein a second turntable and motor which are respectively equivalent to an ordinary turntable and motor are additionally disposed, and both the motors are driven and controlled so as to cancel their torques each other, thereby to eliminate a cross modulation distortion from a pickup.

Dual turntable record player with torque cancellation

A pickup cartridge is disclosed, which comprises a cantilever having one end provided with a stylus and the other end provided with an armature magnetized in the axial direction thereof, a yoke having at least three leg portions each having an end face, the end faces being faced to a peripheral side surface of the armature except a lower side surface portion thereof and a plurality of coils wound on at least two of the three leg portions and connected to detect only change of magnetic flux due to a desired slanted vibration of the armature.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhiro Fujimoto