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The invention belongs to the technical field of automatic control, and particularly relates to a digital control system for strip coiling equipment, which comprises the following steps of: firstly, comprehensively acquiring strip tension data and state characteristic information by combining a tension sensing assembly and image acquisition equipment, dynamically adjusting a braking torque parameter, and then, acquiring a dynamic control signal by taking the linear speed of a coiling machine as a target signal; the speed of the uncoiling machine and the speed of the traction roller are synchronously aligned through a following strategy, then a taper tension control mode is adopted, the tension value is dynamically adjusted in combination with real-time coiling diameter parameters, the tension stability and the coiling regularity in the coiling process are ensured, and finally the strip deviation problem is detected and processed in real time according to a closed-loop deviation correction mechanism. The equipment control strategy in the strip coiling process is deeply bound with uncoiling control, synchronous coordination, coiling control and a deviation correction core module, and the integrated control capability of multivariable coordination and self-adaptive optimization is achieved, so that the automation and intelligence level of the strip coiling process is effectively improved.

The invention relates to a method for producing a film (2) or sheet from a slabstock material, in particular from a slabstock foam (3), in which at least the following regions are provided, as seen in a production direction (P) of the film (2) or sheet: a cutting region (I) for cutting the film (2) or sheet, wherein the film (2) or sheet is cut out, in a slitting-open manner, by means of a cutting unit (10) from the slabstock material, which is continuously fed to the cutting region (I); also a passing-on region (II), adjoining the cutting region (I) and having a driven passing-on roller (20) for conveying the film (2) or sheet out of the cutting region (I); and also a secondary region (III'), adjoining the passing-on region (II) and intended for further processing the film (2) or sheet, in particular a winding region (III) for winding the film (2) or sheet into a coil (4). In this case, there is a cutting-region stress in the film (2) or sheet in the cutting region (I) upstream of the passing-on roller (20), and there is a secondary stress in the film (2) or sheet in the passing-on region (II) upstream of the secondary region (III'), in particular winding region (III). The invention also relates to an installation (1) for film or sheet production, and to a method for retrofitting an installation (1) for film or sheet production, and to a system for retrofitting an installation for film or sheet production.

The document sheet conveying device includes a second discharge tray, and a switching portion. The second discharge tray rotates between a use posture which allows loading of a document sheet on the second discharge tray and a storage posture in which the second discharge tray serves as a part of the conveyance housing. The switching portion connects a first conveying path formed from a supply tray to a branch point inside the conveyance housing to one of a second conveying path formed from the branch point to a first discharge tray and a third conveying path formed from the branch point to the second discharge tray. The switching portion connects the first conveying path to the third conveying path when the posture of the second discharge tray has been changed to the use posture in a state where the first conveying path is connected to the second conveying path.

The invention discloses a tension control system based on Siemens S7-1215C, solves the problem of poor dynamic performance of an existing tension control technology, and belongs to the technical field of composite material equipment development. The control system comprises a main control unit, a tension detection unit, a data acquisition unit and a speed feedback and execution unit, the data acquisition unit is used for connecting the main control unit with the tension detection unit and the speed feedback and execution unit, the main control unit is realized by adopting a Siemens S7-1215C programmable logic controller, and the main control unit controls the speed feedback and execution unit according to a tension value detected by the tension detection unit in real time and in combination with a target tension value. On the basis of the received current rotating speed of the unwinding unit motor, feedforward rotating speed searching is carried out, then self-adaptive PID fine adjustment is carried out, or the self-adaptive PID fine adjustment is directly carried out, a control signal for driving the unwinding unit motor is obtained and output to the data acquisition unit, and the speed feedback and execution unit is further driven to control the rotating speed of the motor. Therefore, high-response, high-precision and high-robustness tension control is realized.

To reduce costs while making it easier to move the sheet to a position where it will not be damaged when the drawer unit is pulled out. [Solution] The sheet feeding control system 100 comprises an acquisition unit 91, a first detection unit 92, and a control unit 94. The acquisition unit 91 acquires the size of the sheet to be transported. The first detection unit 92 detects jams in the sheet. When a jam is detected, the control unit 94 executes either a first feeding control or a second feeding control according to the size of the sheet. In the first feeding control, the sheet is moved to a position where it fits inside a drawer unit 5, which has a sheet transport path and can be pulled out from the main body of the image forming apparatus 10 in a direction intersecting the sheet transport direction. In the second feeding control, the sheet is transported to a position where it fits outside the drawer unit 5.

The invention relates to a device (100) for transporting and singulating blanks (1010) from a material web (1000), comprising a vacuum cylinder (8) for transporting the blanks (1010), a vacuum transport cylinder (7) for further transport of the blanks (1010), wherein the vacuum cylinder (8) and the vacuum transport cylinder (7) are each equipped with their own independent drive motor (84), and a control unit (9) to which the drive motor (84) is connected for data transmission. According to the invention, speed profiles for the rotation of the vacuum cylinder (8) are stored or can be generated in the control unit (9), and the vacuum cylinder (8) can be rotated with a speed profile with different rotational speeds (R). The invention also relates to a method for transporting and singulating blanks from a web of material. The device and method enable a gentler and more precise transfer of blanks from a vacuum cylinder to a vacuum transport cylinder.

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.

To insert an insert sheet while suppressing reduction in productivity.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus comprises: a main conveyance path that reaches an ejection position through a printing position and an insertion position; a printing unit that feeds a sheet to the main conveyance path to convey the sheet and prints an image on the sheet passing through the printing position; and an inserter that feeds an insert sheet from the insertion position to insert the insert sheet between the sheets sequentially conveyed along the main conveyance path. During print job involving insert processing, between a preceding sheet being a sheet immediately before the insert sheet and a subsequent sheet being a sheet immediately after the insert sheet, the printing unit sequentially conveys the preceding sheet and the subsequent sheet with an insertion interval, and the printing unit automatically changes the insertion interval according to a length in a conveyance direction of the insert sheet.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

A machine comprises a pick and place stage and includes a plurality of releasable connectors.A support material is wound over rollers onto a storage roller or spool. The backing support material provides a substantially flat surface upon which a sheet of flexible material is placed by the pick and place stage.The sheet of material and the backing support material are then wound onto the storage roller or spool which may be removed for storage and / or transportation.Delicate sheets of pieces of flat material, such as carbon fibre, may thus be protected from damage during handling, storage and transportation that may otherwise result in damage to the material.The process is reversed to lay down the material, for example into a mould, during manufacture of, for example, an aeroplane wing.

A device and a method for weighing a roll of continuous web material on a spool at a weigh-ing station in a continuous process is described, which has fewer mechanical parts and is safer to use than prior devices and methods. The device is arranged adjacent to at least one of a pair of guide rails and comprises a damper and a load cell, wherein the load cell is integrated into at least one guide rail.

To provide a sheet conveyance device and a sheet conveyance system capable of outputting effective sheets in an output form desired by a user when a printing sheet is cut in a sheet conveying direction to be divided into a plurality of effective sheets and the effective sheets can be individually conveyed.SOLUTION: The sheet conveyance device comprises: a cutting unit 21 that divides a sheet having an image printed thereon into a plurality of effective sheets in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction; an effective sheet conveyance unit 22 that enables the respective effective sheets cut by the cutting unit 21 to be individually conveyed; and a conveying operation switching mechanism 23 capable of switching the conveying operation of the respective effective sheets individually conveyed by the effective sheet conveyance unit 22. The necessity of switching the conveying operation of the effective sheets is determined on the basis of at least one of information about image formation of the effective sheets and information about cutting of the effective sheets, and switching of the conveying operation by the conveying operation switching mechanism 23 is executed for each effective sheet needing switching of the conveying operation.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

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).

The invention relates to an arrangement for aligning at least one value document along a transport route, comprising at least one banknote reader, which has at least one scan line, which has a plurality of detection regions along the scan line for scanning value documents. Each detection area scans a scanning area in a transport plane of the transport section, wherein the scanning area is arranged along a line orthogonal to a central axis of the transport section. The first transport element and the at least one second transport element are used for transporting the value documents in at least one transport direction along the transport path. The transport elements each contact the value document in a contact region. The at least one alignment device is used for aligning the value documents. The alignment device is arranged between the first transport element and the second transport element and forms part of the transport section. The banknote reader detects the rear edge of the value document in the first scanning area and in the second scanning area.

A medium processing apparatus includes a stacker, a conveyance-direction mover, a binder, and processing circuitry. The stacker stacks a medium. The conveyance-direction mover moves, in a conveyance direction, a medium bundle that is a plurality of media including the medium stacked on the stacker. The binder moves in a main scanning direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction and bind the medium bundle stacked on the stacker. The processing circuitry controls an operation of the conveyance-direction mover and the binder. The processing circuitry causes the conveyance-direction mover to move the medium bundle stacked on the stacker in the conveyance direction and causes the binder to move in the main scanning direction, face a binding position on the medium bundle, and bind the binding position of the medium bundle.

Examples described herein relate to system and methods consistent with the disclosure. For instance, the imaging system comprises a tray to receive print media, a first sensor to detect a first printing event in the imaging system, a second sensor to detect a second printing event in the imaging system, and a processing resource to determine if the first sensor detected a first printing event, based on the first sensor detecting print media reaching or dropping below a threshold level in the tray, set a logic state based on determining if the first sensor detected the first printing event, maintain the set logic state responsive to the determination that the first sensor detected the first printing event until the second printing event is detected by the second sensor.

A safety system (12) for an exit module (10) of a converting machine (4), the converting machine for processing of sheet material, the exit module for outlet of a stack (8) of processed sheet material and comprising a conveyor system (16) for transmission of said stack of processed sheet material, the safety system comprising: a presence detection system (22) for detection of an intruding object into an adaptive safety zone (24).

The invention relates to a method for detecting a number of corrugated board sheets in a stack, comprising: - detecting a surface modulation in an overlapping shingled stream by means of sensors, - determining the number of corrugated board sheets on the basis of the detected surface modulation, and - outputting the number of corrugated board sheets. The proposed solution also comprises a device for detecting a number of corrugated board sheets in a stack, a computer program product, and a corrugating machine.

The present specification relates to an embodiment of an electrode material winding apparatus, in which an electrode material is processed so that an electrode tab is not disposed in an impregnation region into which an electrolyte can be injected, and the electrode material is wound so that the electrode tab is arranged only in a specific region excluding the impregnation region, thereby winding the electrode material such that the electrolyte is injected through the impregnation region.

A sensor assembly configured to detect rolled stock on a core includes a sensor configured to detect a first roll of stock unwinding from a core, the stock unwinding from the core of the first roll is supplied as a web of stock, wherein in response to the sensor detecting a first detection configuration, the sensor takes no action and continues to detect the first roll, and wherein in response to the sensor detecting a second detection configuration, the sensor provides a command to a splice assembly to transition to a second roll of stock to replace the first roll of stock.

To ensure that when operation to set the conveyance speeds of individual conveyance units is performed, the conveyance speed of each conveyance unit is adjusted so that the conveyance speed of an upstream conveyance unit and the conveyance speed of a downstream conveyance unit match each other in a conveyance path.SOLUTION: Provided is an information processing device for controlling an image forming system equipped with a first conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium and a second conveyance unit located downstream of the first conveyance unit in the recording medium conveyance path, the information processing device comprising: acceptance means for accepting an indication for setting the conveyance speed of the first conveyance unit; and control means for setting the conveyance speed of the first conveyance unit to the image forming system on the basis of the setting indication and setting the conveyance speed of the second conveyance unit to the image forming system on the basis of the indication for setting the conveyance speed of the first conveyance unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

A sheet discharge apparatus includes a discharge tray to which a sheet is discharged and a plurality of pressing portions that are arrayed at an interval from each other along the width direction orthogonal to the discharge direction of the sheet and that each press the sheet on the discharge tray from above. When the sheet on the discharge tray is pressed, regardless of the position and size of the sheet on the discharge tray along the width direction, one of the plurality of pressing portions is arranged at a position opposite, along the top-bottom direction, an end part of the sheet on the discharge tray along the width direction.

An automatic tape dispenser including a controller, a reel for supporting tape roll thereon, and a feed system configured to receive the tape and peel the tape from the tape roll. The system further includes a sensor communicatively coupled to the controller, wherein the sensor is operable to detect a characteristic of the tape such that in response to detecting the characteristic, an operation of the feed system is adjusted.

To provide a medium feeding device capable of performing medium separation further appropriately or an image reading device with the medium feeding device.SOLUTION: A medium feeding device 10 comprises: a feeding roller 14; a separation roller 15 which is a roller that separates a sheet P by nipping the sheet P between the feeding roller 14 and itself, to which a drive torque by a drive source is applied in a second rotation direction B opposite to a first rotation direction A for feeding the sheet P downstream; and a torque limiter 41 for causing the separation roller 15 to idle in the first rotation direction A when the rotational torque applied to the separation roller 15 in the first rotational direction A exceeds the limit torque which is a predetermined torque upper limit value. The medium feeding device is configured to be able to change a separation setting including the pressing load of the separation roller 15, the rotational speed of the separation roller 15, and the limit torque in accordance with the conditions at the time of feeding.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

To provide a post-processing device capable of suitably post-processing according to the kind of a sheet.SOLUTION: A post-processing device 3 has a tray 43 receiving and loading carried sheet 9, a post-processing part 40 post-processing the sheet 9 loaded on the tray 43, and a control part 39 controlling operation of the post-processing part 40. The control part 39 acquires a first sheet kind specified by a user and a second sheet kind detected by a medium detection part 14 provided to a carrying route 13 of the sheet 9. When the first sheet kind is different from the second sheet kind, the control part controls the operation of the post-processing part 40 on the basis of the second sheet kind. A control part 8 acquires the first sheet kind and the second sheet kind, and can control the operation of the post-processing part 40 on the basis of the second sheet kind, when detecting the second sheet kind in more detail than the first sheet kind.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

It detects the loaded paper regardless of the paper's characteristics or the number of sheets. [Solution] A paper feeder comprising a stopping part that stops the leading edge of the supplied paper to regulate the paper transport start position, a restricting member whose stopping part moves in the paper transport direction, and a detection unit that detects the presence or absence of paper at the position where the paper is returned by the restricting member.

To provide a medium discharge device adapted to indicate a status related to a discharge of a sheet with better visibility in order to improve usability.SOLUTION: A medium discharge device comprises a medium-discharge unit that discharges a medium, and a medium-receiving tray that receives the medium discharged by the medium-discharge unit. The medium-receiving tray can be changed over between a first state of being housed in an apparatus body comprising the medium-discharge unit and a second state of being most projected from the apparatus body. In a position downstream in a medium discharge direction of the medium-discharge unit, a light-emission unit is provided to emit light toward the medium-receiving tray. A control unit for controlling the light-emission unit is allowed to control the light-emission unit in accordance with a state or operation of the medium-receiving tray.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9

To provide a post-processing device suppressed in the alignment deviation of a medium placed on a processing tray.SOLUTION: In a post-processing device, after a new transportation medium is placed on a processing tray as the upper-most medium in a state of one or multiple existing placed media placed already, when the transportation medium is transported by a transportation part, at least one existing placed medium placed on the processing tray is pressed to a pressing part at a pressing position, and after the transportation part is separated from the transportation medium, the pressing part can be moved from the pressing part to a retreated part.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

A post-processing apparatus includes a conveyance portion, a processing tray, a post-processing portion, a discharge tray, a discharge portion, and a control portion. The discharge portion includes an arm, a driving roller, and a driven roller. When stacking a sheet on the processing tray, the control portion brings the driving roller into contact with the sheet. Except when the sheet as the target of post-processing is retracted onto the processing tray, the control portion sets the downward movement speed of the driving roller to a normal speed. When the sheet as the target of post-processing is retracted onto the processing tray, the control portion sets the downward movement speed of the driving roller to a speed lower than the normal speed.

A sheet stacking device includes a stacker, a conveyor, and a marking device. The stacker stacks transfer sheets. The conveyor conveys the transfer sheets toward the stacker in a sheet conveyance direction. The marking device includes a marker storage to store a marker, an ejection port to eject the marker, a marker conveyor to convey and eject the marker from the ejection port, and a guide to prevent the marker ejected from the ejection port from moving in a direction opposite to the sheet conveyance direction. The marking device places the marker on an uppermost sheet of each predetermined number of the transfer sheets on the stacker.