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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2022
Sho Asano, Kanagawa, JP;
Keisuke Sugiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomohiro Furuhashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Wataru Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Ruki Midorikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinya Monma, Kanagawa, JP;
Sho Asano, Kanagawa, JP;
Keisuke Sugiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomohiro Furuhashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Wataru Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Ruki Midorikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinya Monma, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet stacker for use in a device including a stacker portion, a fence, and a guide face. The stacker portion includes a stacker face that is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal plane and receives a plurality of sheets ejected from above and stack the plurality of sheets on the stacker face. The fence includes an angled face to contact an end of the plurality of sheets stacked on the stacker face. The angled face rises in a direction in which the plurality of sheets is stacked, with respect to a lower side of the stacker face. The guide face guides the sheet conveyed along the lower side toward an outlet port to a lower end of the outlet port, the outlet port opening in an exterior of the device to remove the sheet to an outside of the device.