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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2004
Susumu Murakami, Soraku-gun, JP;
Yasushi Matsutomo, Nara, JP;
Tatsuya Shinkawa, Nara, JP;
Motoaki Okitsu, Nara, JP;
Hiroaki Hori, Soraku-gun, JP;
Susumu Murakami, Soraku-gun, JP;
Yasushi Matsutomo, Nara, JP;
Tatsuya Shinkawa, Nara, JP;
Motoaki Okitsu, Nara, JP;
Hiroaki Hori, Soraku-gun, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A sheet delivery mechanism designed to discharge successive sheets to different delivery positions includes offset rollers, an offset unit, an offsetting force generator and an offset unit swinging mechanism. The offset rollers is rotatably supported by the offset unit to discharge each sheet in a sheet transport direction. The offsetting force generator produces a driving force for shifting the offset unit back and forth along a direction perpendicular to the sheet transport direction between a reference position and offset positions. The offset unit swinging mechanism swings the offset unit about an axis parallel to rotary shafts of the offset rollers in such a manner that a sheet output direction in which the offset rollers eject each sheet varies to a direction pointing away from a sheet delivery tray when the offset unit is shifted along the direction perpendicular to the sheet transport direction by the offsetting force generator.