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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Kotani, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 31/18 (2006.01); B65H 31/10 (2006.01); B65H 43/08 (2006.01); B65H 29/14 (2006.01); B65H 29/22 (2006.01); B65H 43/06 (2006.01); B65H 31/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 31/18 (2013.01); B65H 29/14 (2013.01); B65H 29/22 (2013.01); B65H 31/02 (2013.01); B65H 31/10 (2013.01); B65H 43/06 (2013.01); B65H 43/08 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4212 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4213 (2013.01); B65H 2405/11151 (2013.01); B65H 2405/353 (2013.01); B65H 2511/11 (2013.01); B65H 2511/152 (2013.01); B65H 2511/20 (2013.01); B65H 2511/51 (2013.01); B65H 2601/2525 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a sheet discharge device, upon a discharge of a sheet bundle onto a discharge tray, a lowering control portion lowers the discharge tray by a predetermined lowering distance. After the discharge tray is lowered by the lowering control portion, a lifting control portion waits until a front end of an initial sheet of a next sheet bundle becomes in a state of protruding from a discharge port, and then lifts the discharge tray until an upper-surface detection sensor detects that an upper surface of sheet bundles stacked on the discharge tray has reached a predetermined height.