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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2021
Applicant:
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Hideaki Nagai, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Tokyo, JP;
Koshi Tanimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Kenta Nakao, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 29/24 (2006.01); B31B 50/00 (2017.01); B31B 50/98 (2017.01); B31B 50/04 (2017.01); B65H 9/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 29/246 (2013.01); B31B 50/006 (2017.08); B31B 50/042 (2017.08); B31B 50/98 (2017.08); B65H 9/108 (2013.01); B65H 2406/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sheet stacking device is provided with a hopper unit configured to stack a sheet, a feeding unit configured to feed out the sheet to the hopper unit, a distance detection unit configured to detect an inter-sheet distance, in the vertical direction, between a rear end portion of the sheet that is preceding and a tip end portion of the sheet that is subsequent, and an output unit configured to output a behavior stabilization command for the sheet based on the inter-sheet distance.