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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. 22, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2007
Applicant:
Nobuo Inoue, Ebina, JP;
Inventor:
Nobuo Inoue, Ebina, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sheet conveying apparatus that conveys a sheet serving as a recording medium and effectively reduces energy consumption includes a movable sheet supporting device configured to support sheets, a sheet size detecting device configured to detect a size of the sheets by detecting a location of the sheet supporting device, a gap detecting device configured to detect a gap between the sheets and the sheet supporting device, and a reporting device configured to notify an operator of a gap detected by the gap detecting device.