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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:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/910 ; B65H 5/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/910 ; B65H 5/22 ;
Abstract
A sheet output device having a stack for storing sheets and a plurality of discharge bins includes a sheet transport device for transporting a discharged sheet from a discharge bin to the stack and an indicator for indicating that the sheet has been transported by the sheet transport device, so that the user can know where the job sheet is to be output. The sheet output device further includes a memory for storing information related to a sheet output for each of the discharge bins, and the indicator indicates information related to the sheet transported by the sheet transport device.