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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11708232 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 27, 2020

Stacking apparatus and stacking method

Applicant:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yuko Kobayashi, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Misato Ishikawa, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Shunsuke Hattori, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Takamitsu Sunaoshi, Yokohama Kanagawa, JP;

Takahiro Kokubo, Hiratsuka Kanagawa, JP;

Noboru Nakamura, Chigasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Masahito Kochiwa, Yokohama Kanagawa, JP;

Hiroyuki Fukuyo, Ebina Kanagawa, JP;

Kazuhiro Mukai, Yokohama Kanagawa, JP;

Takeshi Yamagata, Yokohama Kanagawa, JP;

Mitsuhiro Saitou, Saitama Saitama, JP;

Assignee:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Jeremy R Severson

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 9/00 (2006.01); B65H 7/14 (2006.01); B65H 31/02 (2006.01); B65H 29/40 (2006.01); B65H 29/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 9/002 (2013.01); B65H 7/14 (2013.01); B65H 29/40 (2013.01); B65H 29/62 (2013.01); B65H 31/02 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4454 (2013.01); B65H 2406/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.

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