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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2003
Applicants:
D. Travis Lay, Horseshoe Bend, ID (US);
Curtis Reese, Boise, ID (US);
Willard W. Bradburn, Nampa, ID (US);
Inventors:
D. Travis Lay, Horseshoe Bend, ID (US);
Curtis Reese, Boise, ID (US);
Willard W. Bradburn, Nampa, ID (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/86 (2006.01); B07C 5/00 (2006.01); B65H 29/00 (2006.01); B65H 7/02 (2006.01); B65H 39/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A media routing control device and method for qualifying media for use with a sheet-fed device includes a sensor configured to detect a characteristic of a media sheet. The device further includes a usable sheet media path and an unusable sheet media path. A sheet-inverting duplexing path inverts the media sheet when necessary and a controller controls the routing of the media sheet along one of the media paths according to the detected characteristic.