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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:
Apr. 03, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2004
Masayuki Kashiba, Shiga, JP;
Yoshiyuki Horii, Kyoto, JP;
Nobuyuki Kojima, Shiga, JP;
Horizon International Inc., Shiga, JP;
Abstract
In a sheet supplying device for feeding a sheet from a sheet stack configured by stacking plural sets of sheets collated by page order, each of which corresponds to one volume, for each set of sheets, in a state where the sheets are superimposed on one another so as to be sequentially offset from one another in a fore-to-aft direction, the sheet supplying device comprises: first transport meansfor sucking a sheet in an uppermost position of a sheet stack P placed on a sheet tableso as to move the sheet rearward; second transport meansfor sucking the sheet moved rearward by the first transport meansso as to transport the sheet forward; and a control unitcontrolling suction operations of the first and second transport means. The control unit(i) allows the first transport meansto start the suction operation, and allows the first transport meansto suck the sheet in the uppermost position so as to move the sheet rearward, (ii) when it is determined on the basis of a detection signal from a sensorthat the sheet has reached a detection position of the sensor, allows the first transport meansto stop the suction operation and, also, the second transport meansto start the suction operation, allows the second transport meansto suck the sheet so as to transport the sheet forward, and allows the second transport meansto stop the suction operation, and (iii) repeats the operations (i) and (ii) for the subsequent sheets of the sheet stack P, until the sheets in a set of sheets, which corresponds to one volume, arm all transported.
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