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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2009
Tsuyoshi Sanada, Singapore, SG;
Kiyoshi Morino, Shizuoka, JP;
Tsutomu Fujiwara, Singapore, SG;
Toshiharu Sekino, Shizuoka, JP;
Tsuyoshi Sanada, Singapore, SG;
Kiyoshi Morino, Shizuoka, JP;
Tsutomu Fujiwara, Singapore, SG;
Toshiharu Sekino, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In the state that a preceding sheet awaits at an awaiting position, a pair of conveying rollers are separated from each other, and the front end of a subsequent sheet sent out from a main conveying path passes the gap between the pair of conveying rollers. Based on a configuration that the distance from the trailing end of the subsequent sheet in the conveying direction to the pair of conveying rollers becomes equal to that from the front end of the preceding sheet to the pair of conveying rollers, the preceding sheet and subsequent sheet are sandwiched by the pair of conveying rollers so as to be conveyed in a first direction, thereby making the sheets into a state that the sheets are put on each other. Thereafter, the sheets are conveyed in a second direction by the pair of conveying rollers, so as to be discharged into discharging unit.