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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2016
Sheet-member separation device, sheet-member separation method, program, and image forming apparatus
Satoru Takano, Kanagawa, JP;
Hidehiko Fujiwara, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Akai, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuo Niikura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yousuke Edo, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasunori Hino, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadashi Matsuoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsunori Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryo Kanno, Kanagawa, JP;
Hikaru Fukasawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoru Takano, Kanagawa, JP;
Hidehiko Fujiwara, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Akai, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuo Niikura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yousuke Edo, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasunori Hino, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadashi Matsuoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsunori Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryo Kanno, Kanagawa, JP;
Hikaru Fukasawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.