Sheet conveyance device and method for controlling sheet conveyance device

    公开(公告)号:US11274005B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-15

    申请号:US15930271

    申请日:2020-05-12

    发明人: Tadaharu Kusumi

    IPC分类号: B65H7/12 B65H3/06 B65H7/02

    摘要: A sheet conveyance device includes a transmitter circuit, a receiver circuit, an integrator circuit which performs charging of electric charge outputted from the transmitter circuit and outputs a judgment voltage, a drive circuit, and a control circuit. The drive circuit feeds a drive signal to the transmitter circuit. At a lapse of a wait time after changing a level of a transmission instruction signal to a level instructing to feed the drive signal to the transmitter circuit, the control circuit makes the integrator circuit start to perform charging. When adjusting the wait time, the control circuit performs processing for adjustment a plurality of times. The control circuit makes the wait time different in each execution of the processing for adjustment. The control circuit determines a new wait time based on a magnitude of the judgment voltage recognized in each execution of the processing for adjustment.

    Sheet conveyance apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11186457B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-30

    申请号:US16834160

    申请日:2020-03-30

    IPC分类号: B65H7/12 B65H7/14 B65H5/36

    摘要: Provided is a sheet conveyance apparatus armored with a housing, the sheet conveyance apparatus includes: a sheet conveyor that feeds a sheet to a downstream side in a direction of conveyance; a conveyance guide that guides the sheet to be conveyed; an ultrasonic sensor that detects the sheet guided by the conveyance guide; and a shield member that is conductive, wherein the ultrasonic sensor includes: a transmitter that transmits an ultrasonic wave having a predetermined frequency; and a receiver that receives the ultrasonic wave, the transmitter and the receiver are arranged along the conveyance guide, and the shield member is disposed between the housing and the receiver in a sheet-face perpendicular direction at an ultrasonic-irradiation position of the sheet being conveyed, the shield member covering an entirety of the receiver in plan view in the sheet-face perpendicular direction.

    Image forming apparatus
    23.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11097915B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-24

    申请号:US15952670

    申请日:2018-04-13

    发明人: Keita Nakajima

    IPC分类号: B65H7/02 B65H7/12 B65H5/06

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a first detection unit, a second detection unit, a first conveyance unit, a second conveyance unit, which is provided on downstream in the conveyance direction with respect to the first detection unit and is configured to convey sheets, and a control unit. When the first detection unit does not detect a trailing edge of a first sheet before a first timing, the control unit stops the drive of the first conveyance unit and continues drive of the second conveyance unit, and when the second detection unit detects the trailing edge of the first sheet before a second timing later than the first timing, the control unit re-drives the first conveyance unit or stops the drive of the second conveyance unit in accordance with a sheet length of the first sheet in the conveyance direction.

    Paper conveyance device and method of controlling paper conveyance device

    公开(公告)号:US11084675B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-10

    申请号:US16443599

    申请日:2019-06-17

    发明人: Takuya Hamada

    摘要: A paper conveyance device includes a paper feed unit, a conveyance rotator, a conveyance guide, a multi-feed detection unit, and a control unit. The control unit causes an ultrasonic sensor to transmit an ultrasonic wave in a detection section. The control unit sets a detection execution section and a detection skip section in the detection section. The control unit does not determine whether multi-feed has occurred in the detection skip section. The control unit sets the detection skip section based on a time point at which vibration is applied to conveyed paper.

    Document scanner with envelope discrimination and detection

    公开(公告)号:US11053090B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-06

    申请号:US16294482

    申请日:2019-03-06

    IPC分类号: B65H7/12 H04N1/12 H04N1/00

    摘要: A system for detecting envelopes from multi-fed documents in a scanning system with a scanning track along which documents move laterally toward a scanning station having a plurality of spaced apart penetrating detectors across the scanning track. The scanners detect a leading edge as a single layer material, i.e. without an air gap and the interior as having an air gap in the document scanned. If a document has an interior air gap, but the leading edge does not, it is first assumed to be an envelope.

    Multi-feed detection device, multi-feed detection method, and electronic device

    公开(公告)号:US11027934B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-08

    申请号:US16408623

    申请日:2019-05-10

    发明人: Eiji Osawa

    IPC分类号: B65H7/12 G01N29/11

    摘要: A multi-feed detection device includes a transmission circuit substrate on which an ultrasonic transmitter transmitting an ultrasonic wave is installed, and an ultrasonic receiver receiving the ultrasonic wave. The ultrasonic transmitter transmits the ultrasonic wave in a direction intersecting a thickness direction of the transmission circuit substrate and at least one of the ultrasonic transmitter and the ultrasonic receiver has a plurality of ultrasonic elements.

    CONVEYOR
    27.
    发明申请
    CONVEYOR 有权

    公开(公告)号:US20210061601A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-04

    申请号:US17010306

    申请日:2020-09-02

    IPC分类号: B65H7/12 B41F33/02 G01S15/10

    摘要: A conveyor conveys a sheet along a conveyance path provided with an ultrasonic sensor, and includes: an updating member that successively updates a parameter indicating aged deterioration of the conveyor; a searcher that searches a look-up table storing pieces of noise data of noises predicted to be superimposed on a detection signal of the ultrasonic sensor in accordance with a degree of the aged deterioration, and obtains a piece of noise data corresponding to a current parameter value of the conveyor; and a signal processor that uses, for signal processing, a remaining portion of the detection signal of the ultrasonic sensor excluding a portion corresponding to the piece of noise data obtained by the searcher.

    Conveyance apparatus, reading apparatus, image forming apparatus and image forming system

    公开(公告)号:US10730712B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-04

    申请号:US15855345

    申请日:2017-12-27

    发明人: Makoto Arima

    摘要: A conveyance apparatus is capable of detecting the presence or absence of multi feeding with high accuracy even when a received waveform varies due to a “noise from the circuit” and an “influence due to vibrations,” which are fixedly generated noise components. The conveyance apparatus includes an original conveying motor configured to convey an original; an ultrasonic transmitter, which is arranged at one of positions sandwiching a conveyance path along which the original is conveyed, and transmits an ultrasonic wave toward the conveyance path; and an ultrasonic receiver, which is arranged at the other one of the positions sandwiching the conveyance path, and receives the ultrasonic wave transmitted from the ultrasonic transmitter. The conveyance apparatus compares a received wave amplitude exhibited with sheet-presence against a threshold value determined based on a received wave amplitude exhibited with sheet-absence to determine whether the original is conveyed with multi feeding.