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Sheet conveying device capable of determining whether or not stack of sheets placed on lift portion is in setting failure state, image forming apparatus, and determination method

A sheet conveying device includes a sheet supply portion, a detection portion, an acquisition processing portion, and a determination processing portion. The sheet supply portion supplies an uppermost sheet in a stack of sheets lifted by a lift portion to a conveying path. The detection portion detects the sheet supplied by the sheet supply portion on the conveying path. The acquisition processing portion acquires, when the stack of sheets is lifted by the lift portion, speed information related to a conveying speed of the sheet by the sheet supply portion using the detection portion. The determination processing portion determines whether or not the stack of sheets is in a setting failure state based on the speed information acquired by the acquisition processing portion.
Owner:KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC

Unit and method for feeding blanks

A blanks feeding unit includes a storage device, at least one retaining element, a pressure sensor, and an adjusting device. The storage device is for containing a stack of blanks and displacing the stack along a movement direction towards an outlet section of the storage device. The retaining element is provided at the outlet section and configured to abut an advanced blank of the stack at least at a portion of the advanced blank. The pressure sensor is operatively connected to the retaining element and configured to detect the pressure exerted on the retaining element by the advanced blank. The adjusting device is operatively connected to the pressure sensor and configured to adjust the position of the retaining element based on the pressure detected by the pressure sensor.
Owner:RA JONES & CO INC

Paper feeder

To provide a paper feed device that can raise the pickup roller without requiring a sensor to detect the opening and closing of the bar, thereby reducing cumbersome operations. [Solution] To achieve the above objective, a paper feeding device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a pickup roller, a sensor, and a paper feeding control unit. The pickup roller pulls out sheets of paper one by one from a paper tray on which multiple sheets of paper are stacked. The sensor detects the presence or absence of paper. The paper feeding control unit controls the upward drive of the pickup roller based on the detection result of the sensor.
Owner:KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC

Sheet conveying device capable of acquiring pay-out amount of sheet from stack of sheets without providing dedicated sensor, an image forming apparatus, and acquisition method

A sheet conveying device includes a sheet supply portion, a detection portion, and an acquisition processing portion. The sheet supply portion supplies an uppermost sheet in a stack of sheets lifted by a lift portion. The detection portion detects the sheet supplied by the sheet supply portion. The acquisition processing portion acquires a pay-out amount of the sheet from the stack of sheets based on an elapsed time from a start of supply of the sheet by the sheet supply portion to a time when the sheet is detected by the detection portion, that is measured at a timing at which the stack of sheets is lifted by the lift portion, and an elapsed time from the start of supply of the sheet by the sheet supply portion to the time when the sheet is detected by the detection portion, that is measured after the timing.
Owner:KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC

Alternating inserting plate type uninterrupted paper feeding table of die-cutting machine and paper feeding method thereof

The invention relates to a die-cutting machine alternate inserting plate type uninterrupted paper feeding table and a paper feeding method, the die-cutting machine alternate inserting plate type uninterrupted paper feeding table comprises a rack, a paper placing station, a paper feeding station and a material receiving disc, a front inserting plate paper feeding mechanism and a rear inserting plate paper feeding mechanism are arranged on the rack, and the front inserting plate paper feeding mechanism and the rear inserting plate paper feeding mechanism alternately take paper from the material receiving disc and transfer the paper to the paper feeding station. The front inserting plate mechanism and the rear inserting plate mechanism each comprise a transverse driving assembly, a longitudinal driving assembly and a vertical driving assembly, and accurate paper taking through inserting plates is achieved through multi-axis linkage. The material receiving disc is provided with a paper lifting block set or a paper lifting wheel set to form an insertion plate channel, and the end of an insertion plate is closed through a slope butt joint structure to take paper. A pre-centering mechanism is arranged below the paper placing station, a paper pushing wheel is driven by a rotating air cylinder to center paper, and the height of a material receiving disc is adjusted by a lifting air cylinder. The double-inserting-plate mechanism works alternately, the problem that traditional paper supply is interrupted is solved, continuous paper supply is achieved, and the efficiency and stability of a die cutting production line are improved.
Owner:RUIAN AOER PRINTING & PACKAGING MASCH CO LTD

Sheet feeding device

To reduce a time delay in feeding a sheet by preventing failure in feeding the sheet as a pickup roller is not in contact with the sheet while suppressing multiple feeding or jamming of the sheet.SOLUTION: A sheet feeding device comprises: a sheet loading table 1 loaded with a sheet; taking-in means for taking the sheet loaded on the sheet loading table 1 into a device body; feeding means for feeding the sheet taken in by the taking-in means; separating means abutting on the feed means to separate a sheet to be fed from a plurality of sheets; and sheet detecting means for detecting whether a sheet is present between the feeding means and the separating means, wherein the taking-in means is controlled based upon a detection result of the sheet detecting means to operate to take in the sheet.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5
Owner:CANON DENSHI KK

Sheet conveyance device, image forming device and image reading device

To properly clean a rotating body that conveys a sheet while suppressing an increase in size of a sheet conveyance device.SOLUTION: A sheet conveyance device includes: a rotating body that conveys a sheet by rotating in contact with the sheet; and a cleaning part that cleans the rotating body. The cleaning part includes: a cleaning member that contacts an outer peripheral surface of the rotating body to remove a foreign matter from the outer peripheral surface of the rotating body; and a housing that stores the foreign matter removed from the outer peripheral surface of the rotating body, wherein a part of the housing is arranged in a position capable of coming into contact with the sheet, and guides the sheet conveyed by the rotating body.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
Owner:KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC

Double-working-condition transmission instrument and book sticker collating machine

The invention provides a double-working-condition transmission instrument. The double-working-condition transmission instrument comprises a supporting platform and a driving mechanism arranged in the supporting platform. The invention further provides a book collating machine which comprises the double-working-condition transmission instrument and a plurality of collating mechanisms arranged at the top of a supporting platform, and each collating mechanism comprises a fixed base and a book material table fixed to the fixed base. A double-working-condition transmission instrument is combined with a high-performance collating mechanism, so that when the collating machine faces ultrahigh production efficiency, precise parts such as an adsorption part, a page supporting hook and a connection claw of each collating mechanism do not need to be forcibly solved to operate at physical limit frequency, and the collating machine is switched to a non-1: 1 working condition, so that the collating efficiency of the collating machine is greatly improved. Therefore, the mechanisms can work at a looser and more stable action frequency. Therefore, the problems of pulling damage, unstable adsorption, inaccurate handover and the like of the book sections caused by too fast action are fundamentally avoided, and the extremely high reliability in the book section separating, transferring and conveying processes can still be ensured while the yield leap is achieved.
Owner:XIANGYANG JINGXINGDA MASCH TECH CO LTD

Device and method for unstacking a stack

A device for unstacking a stack that is constructed of part-stacks of flat printed products arranged next to one another and on top of one another. The device has a separating apparatus for forming a gap between a respective part-stack and the stack, and a gripping apparatus for gripping and lifting the respective part-stack utilizing the gap. A first robot moves the gripping apparatus during unstacking and a second robot moves the separating apparatus separately. The two robots may be structurally identical gantry robots on a common gantry frame. The processing speed may be increased when depalletizing stacks due to process parallelization. The unstacking process is particularly suitable in a postpress context where printed products are further processed.
Owner:HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AG

System and method for separing fabric layers

The invention relates to a system for treating and processing a fabric layer (111). The system comprises a treatment robot (100) having an actuator (101) for treating a fabric layer (111), the actuator (101) having a treatment mechanism (120) configured to pick up and drop down at least one fabric layer (111). The treatment device (120) has an actuator contour (106), in which the fabric layer (111) can be fastened, the actuator contour (106) being smaller than the outer contour of the fabric layer (111). The processing mechanism (120) is configured to individually separate and pick up at least one fabric layer (111) from the fabric layer stack (112), to flatten the separated at least one fabric layer (111) on the working surface (102) of the working table (103), and to unfold the fabric layer (111) within the actuator contour (106). Furthermore, the system comprises a monitoring device (130) configured to monitor the separation of the at least one fabric layer (111) from the stack of fabric layers (112).
Owner:SILANA

Sheet feeding apparatus, image forming system, and control program

A sheet feeding apparatus includes: a placer that allows a plurality of sheets to be placed on the placer; an air feeder including a front-end fan that generates an airflow from a front-edge side in a sheet feeding direction of a bundle of sheets placed on the placer toward the bundle of sheets; an attracting conveyor that attracts an uppermost sheet separated by the air feeder from the bundle of sheets placed on the placer and conveys the uppermost sheet; a detector that detects, in the conveyance of the uppermost sheet by the attracting conveyor, an amount of co-feeding of a next sheet together with the uppermost sheet; and a hardware processor that executes air-volume control to the front-end fan such that an air volume of the front-end fan increases with an increase in the amount of co-feeding detected by the detector.
Owner:KONICA MINOLTA INC

Methods and apparatuses for making elastomeric laminates with elastic strands unwound from spools on surface unwinders

The present disclosure relates to methods for assembling elastomeric laminates, wherein elastic material may be stretched and joined with either or both first and second substrates. First spools are rotated to unwind first elastic strands from a first unwinder in a machine direction. The first elastic strands are positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate to form an elastomeric laminate. Before the first elastic strands are completely unwound from the rotating first spools, second spools are rotated to unwind second elastic strands from a second unwinder. Subsequently, the advancement of the first elastic strands from the first unwinder is discontinued. Thus, the elastomeric laminate assembly process may continue uninterrupted while switching from an initially utilized elastic material drawn from the first spools to a subsequently utilized elastic material drawn from the second spools.
Owner:PROCTER & GAMBLE CO

Film bin mechanism of mobile terminal film sticking machine and mobile terminal film sticking machine

The utility model provides a film bin mechanism of a mobile terminal film sticking machine and the mobile terminal film sticking machine. The film bin mechanism of the mobile terminal film sticking machine comprises a rack, a film bin moving module and a plurality of film bins, a plurality of storage cavities are formed in the rack and are sequentially arranged from bottom to top; the film bin moving module comprises a lifting frame, a lifting driving assembly and a bin taking assembly, and the bin taking assembly is arranged on the lifting frame and / or the rack; the film bins are correspondingly and movably contained in the storage cavities, and the film bins are configured to move to the lifting frame from the storage cavities and move to the storage cavities from the lifting frame under driving of the bin taking assembly. Compared with the prior art, the film bin mechanism of the mobile terminal film sticking machine can contain more film bins, when films need to be taken out, the corresponding film bins are taken out through the film bin moving module and conveyed to proper positions so as to be conveniently grabbed by a clamping mechanism, due to the fact that the number of the film bins capable of being installed is large, different types of protective films can be conveniently contained, and the film sticking machine is convenient to use. Therefore, the mobile terminal film sticking machine can adapt to multiple types of machines.
Owner:广州逸仙科技有限公司

HIC capturing mechanism with anti-stacking function

The utility model discloses an HIC capturing mechanism with an anti-stacking function, which comprises a rack, a stock bin, a transfer assembly and a first anti-stacking assembly, and is characterized in that the stock bin is fixed on the rack and is used for storing an HIC; the transfer assembly is used for capturing the HIC from the stock bin; the first material stacking prevention assembly is arranged in the stock bin and comprises a plurality of poking pieces arranged on the two sides of an outlet of the stock bin and a first power source which is connected with the poking pieces and drives the poking pieces to reciprocate up and down in the stock bin, and the distance between the poking pieces is smaller than the length of the HIC in the direction. According to the HIC capturing mechanism with the material stacking prevention function, redundant HICs can be prevented from being taken away from the stock bin, the redundant HICs are prevented from moving back, and the production efficiency is improved.
Owner:JINGLONG TECH SUZHOU

Thin plate substrate feeding device and processing machine connectable thereto

The present invention relates to a thin sheet substrate feeding device for a processing machine, which includes: - a feeding and guiding element (2) for at least one bundle of thin sheet substrates (3) having an adjustable height gauge (4) for passing one thin sheet substrate (3.1) at a time; - a suction-function feeding table (5) having a plurality of wheels (6) integrated with at least one rotating shaft for feeding the thin sheet substrates (3.1) by movement; and - a driving means positioned behind the gauge (4) in the direction of movement of the thin sheet substrates (3.1) for feeding the thin sheet substrates (3.1) to the processing machine, wherein the feeding table (5) does not move, and the device includes control means configured to selectively stop the rotation of the corresponding rotating shaft.
Owner:バルベランラトーレイエズスフランシスコ

Paper jam indication detection device, paper jam indication detection method, and recording medium

A paper jam indication detection device detects an indication that a paper jam will occur in a paper feed device. The paper jam indication detection device includes: a sound collector that collects a friction sound produced by friction between a plurality of sheets of paper when the paper is fed from a holder holding the plurality of sheets of the paper; an indication detector that detects an indication that a paper jam will occur in the paper feed device based on a decrease in the friction sound collected by the sound collector; and a signal outputter that, when the indication is detected by the indication detector, outputs, to the paper feed device, a signal for stopping the paper from being fed from the holder.
Owner:PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORP OF AMERICA

A visual positioning-based printing machine feeding manipulator and a working method thereof

The application relates to a vision positioning-based printing machine feeding manipulator and a working method thereof, which comprises a six-axis machine arm and a feeding mechanism, the execution end of the six-axis machine arm is provided with the feeding mechanism, the feeding mechanism comprises a base assembly, a speed-multiplier translation mechanism installed on the base assembly, a sliding base assembly installed on the execution end of the speed-multiplier translation mechanism, an equidistance distance adjustment mechanism installed on the sliding base assembly, and a plurality of clamping units installed on the execution end of the equidistance distance adjustment mechanism; the multiple technologies such as vision positioning guidance, speed-multiplier translation, equidistance distance adjustment, flexible clamping, bottom support and air separation are cooperated to realize accurate, rapid and non-damage feeding of a paperboard stack, and the technical problems of paperboard adhesion, clamping damage and low efficiency are effectively solved.
Owner:SHANDONG GUOYIN MASCH CO LTD

Document conveying device

A document conveying device includes a sheet feeding tray, a sheet feeding mechanism, a discharge tray, a sheet feeding tray lifting mechanism, a top plate, a fixed wall part, and a lifting wall part. The discharge tray is provided below the sheet feeding tray. The top plate is adjacent to the sheet feeding tray on a downstream side in the sheet feeding direction. The fixed wall part is provided extending downward from an upstream side end portion of the top plate in the sheet feeding direction, and is fixed. The lifting wall part is provided extending upward from a downstream side end portion of the sheet feeding tray in the sheet feeding direction, and lifted and lowered together with the sheet feeding tray. The discharge tray includes a lowering restriction part which comes into contact with the lifting wall part to restrict a lowering of the lifting wall part.
Owner:KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC

Power transmission device, medium transport device, and recording apparatus

When the planetary gear mechanism is used in order to make the center distance between the two gears appropriate, a space for installing the planetary gear mechanism is liable to become large, so that there is a liability that upsizing of the image forming apparatus is caused.SOLUTION: The power transmission device comprises a first gear provided on a first rotary shaft, a second gear provided on a second rotary shaft and meshing with the first gear, a first support portion for supporting the first rotary shaft, and a second support portion for supporting the second rotary shaft, wherein the second support portion allows movement of the second rotary shaft in a direction in which the second gear moves back and forth with respect to the first gear, and a force acting in a direction toward the first gear acts on the second gear.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6
Owner:SEIKO EPSON CORP

Device and method for unstacking a stack

An inventive device for destacking a stack, wherein the stack (3) is composed of sub-stacks (5) of flat printed products (4) arranged side by side and one above the other, wherein the device (1) comprises a separating device (10) for preferably temporarily forming a gap (7) between a respective sub-stack (5) and the stack (3), and a gripping device (20) for gripping and lifting the respective sub-stack (5) using the respective gap (7), and wherein the device (1) comprises a first robot (40) which moves the gripping device (20) during destacking, is characterized in that the device (1) comprises a second robot (50) which moves the separating device (10) separately. Preferably, the two robots are identical gantry robots mounted on a common gantry frame.The invention advantageously enables an increase in processing speed during the depalletizing of stacks through process parallelization. The invention is used, for example, in post-press applications (print finishing).
Owner:HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AG

Automatic feeding device of collating machine for printed matter production

The utility model belongs to the technical field of printing equipment, and particularly relates to an automatic feeding device of a collating machine for printed matter production, which comprises a rack, a material pressing and tidying mechanism which can be transversely moved and adjusted and integrates the material pressing function and the material tidying function is arranged above the conveying assembly located on the rear side of the rack, a paper feeding table used in cooperation with the collating machine is arranged on the portion, located on one side of the conveying assembly, of the rack, and the paper feeding table can be transversely moved and adjusted relative to the rack. An ejection mechanism is arranged below the inner side of the rack on the same transverse plane with the pressing and normalizing mechanism, and a pushing mechanism for conveniently pushing materials to move towards the paper feeding table is arranged on one side of the ejection mechanism. According to the paper feeding device, the conveying process between the conveyed paper and the collating machine can be linked, paper materials can be conveniently fed, labor intensity is reduced, the working progress is improved, cost is saved, and use requirements are met.
Owner:SHANDONG LUJIAN PRINTING CO LTD

Staging plate for an automated teller machine

A staging plate for an automated teller machine (ATM) is described herein. The staging plate can include a first surface configured to support media inserted into a pocket of the ATM, and a second surface connected to the first surface. The second surface can be configured to guide media handled by a user to the first surface.
Owner:CARDTRONICS USA INC

Document feeding device and corresponding image forming apparatus

A document feeding device (3) includes a sheet feed tray (31), a sheet discharge tray (32), and a restricting portion (33). The sheet feed tray (31) feeds documents (M) to be fed in a first direction (X1). The sheet discharge tray (32), to which the fed document (M) is discharged in a second direction (X2) opposite to the first direction (X1), is arranged below the sheet feed tray (31). The restricting portion (33) restricts movement in the second direction (X2) of the document (M) discharged onto the sheet discharge tray (32). The restricting portion (33) includes a first extension portion (330) and a second extension portion (340). The first extension portion (330) extends in the second direction (X2) from an end in the second direction (X2) of the sheet discharge tray (32). The second extension portion (340) extends upward in an up direction from the first extension portion (330).
Owner:KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC

Deviation rectifying feeder

PendingCN121735017AArticle separationCorrecting paperControl engineering
The deviation rectifying feeder comprises a bottom plate, a rack, a deviation rectifying mechanism, a feeding air box, a limiting mechanism and a material supporting mechanism, and the rack is rotationally connected to the bottom plate through the deviation rectifying mechanism and drives the feeding air box, the limiting mechanism, the material supporting mechanism and conveyed paper to rotate integrally so as to correct the conveying posture of the paper. According to the deviation rectifying feeder, the paper conveying posture is recognized in real time through the sensing assembly, the driving assembly synchronously and reversely drives the rack to rotate integrally, synchronous deviation rectifying of related parts such as the feeding air box and the limiting mechanism and paper is achieved in combination with the rotating assembly arranged in a concentric arc mode, and deviation rectifying is more stable and accurate. The limiting mechanism can achieve left-right limiting and conveying quantity control of paper at the same time, the deviation hidden danger caused by conveying of multiple pieces of paper is reduced, and the conveying regularity is improved. The whole structural design enables the machine frame to rotate smoothly and respond in time, paper deviation is effectively corrected, it is guaranteed that the conveying posture is accurate, stable guarantee is provided for subsequent machining procedures, and the operation reliability and conveying quality of equipment are improved.
Owner:GUANGDONG HENGLI JUNXING INTELLIGENT EQUIPMENT CO LTD

Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus

A sheet feeding apparatus includes a stacking portion, a rotary feeding member configured to feed the sheet in a sheet feeding direction, a first separation portion including a separation surface, the detachable unit including a second separation portion. A direction that intersects both the sheet feeding direction and a rotation-axis direction of the rotary feeding member, and that extends from the separation surface toward the rotary feeding member is defined as a projection direction. The second separation portion is positioned downstream of the separation surface in the projection direction in a state where the detachable unit is attached to the first separation portion. Another portion of the detachable unit other than the second separation portion is positioned upstream of the separation surface in the projection direction in a state where the detachable unit is attached to the first separation portion.
Owner:CANON KK

Pouch housing conveying apparatus and pouch housing conveying method using same

Disclosed are a pouch case transfer apparatus and a pouch case transfer method using the same, and more particularly, disclosed is a pouch case transfer apparatus including: a close contact unit configured to be in close contact with one surface of a pouch case, the close contact unit having a specific area; a support bar connected with the close contact unit, the support bar configured to move the close contact unit; the close contact unit includes a main plate configured to face an edge portion of the pouch case, and the main plate is provided, at one surface thereof, with a first suction channel or a suction member exposed toward the edge portion of the pouch case, and a second suction channel or a suction member exposed toward the edge portion of the pouch case; the first adsorption channel or the adsorption member is configured to adsorb an edge portion of the pouch case by pressure reduction.
Owner:LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD

Sheet feeding control method, sheet feeding device, and image forming apparatus

The sheet detecting device detects sheets at a detection position on a downstream side of a feeding rotating body in a sheet feeding direction. A timing device measures an elapsed time from a time when a feeding process for each sheet is started to a time when each sheet is detected by the sheet detecting device. A control device derives a reference feeding time based on one or more reference measurement times measured by the timing device when one or more reference feeding processes that satisfy a count condition are executed. The control device adjusts, based on the reference feeding time, a timing at which a feeding mechanism starts the feeding process for each of the sheets fed by the feeding process after the reference feeding process has been executed.
Owner:KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC

Material storing mechanism and feeding device

ActiveCN116969224BSolve the technical problem of being unable to use plates of various lengthsFor the purpose of storing materialsArticle separationIndustrial engineeringMaterial storage
The application discloses a material storage mechanism and a feeding device, and relates to the technical field of plate processing. The material storage mechanism comprises a material table, a first material pressing assembly and a second material pressing assembly which are respectively and separately installed on the material table, and the material table can support at least one end of a plate. The first material pressing assembly can abut and press the end of the plate, and the second material pressing assembly can abut and press the middle section of the plate. The application solves the technical problem that the existing material storage mechanism cannot use plates of various lengths.
Owner:HANS CNC SCI & TECH