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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2008
Yusuke Mitsuya, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yoshihiko Naruoka, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yukio Asari, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Naruaki Hiramitsu, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Tetsuo Watanabe, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yusuke Mitsuya, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yoshihiko Naruoka, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yukio Asari, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Naruaki Hiramitsu, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Tetsuo Watanabe, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet take-out apparatus includes a supplying structure configured to move a plurality of sheets supplied in a stacking state in a stacking direction and supply a sheet at a leading edge thereof in a movement direction to a take-out position, a take-out structure configured to make contact with the sheet supplied to the take-out position and rotate, thereby taking out the sheet in a direction almost orthogonal to the stacking direction, and move the sheet to a conveying route, a suction structure configured to generate an air current to suck the sheet at the leading edge in the movement direction to the take-out position on an upstream side of a position where the take-out structure makes contact with the sheet in the sheet take-out direction by the take-out structure, and a controller configured to control an operation of the suction structure so as to decrease suction force by the suction structure when the sheet at the leading edge in the movement direction is not taken out by the take-out structure.