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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.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Koichi Kanaya, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271241 ; 271163 ;
Abstract
A device for controlling positioning of a sheet carrying an image on one side thereof, or one-sided sheet, in a predetermined position on an intermediate tray of a copier which is operable in a two-sided copy mode. The one-sided sheet is positioned on the intermediate tray by a pair of side fences and a back fence. The side fences and the back fence each is driven by an exclusive pulse motor to move and stop at a position matching the size of the sheet. Particular amounts of displacement are assigned to each fence on a sheet size basis, and each is adjustable on the operation board of the copier.