Optical paper sensor having alterable sensitivity and illumination
intensity
    32.
    发明授权
    Optical paper sensor having alterable sensitivity and illumination intensity 失效
    光学纸传感器具有可变的灵敏度和照度

    公开(公告)号:US5283424A

    公开(公告)日:1994-02-01

    申请号:US962552

    申请日:1992-10-19

    摘要: The present invention is a method and apparatus for selectively altering the sensitivity of an optical sensor. The sensor has both a light source and a detector which are optically aligned with one another. The detector produces a first output signal level in response to light having an illumination intensity greater than or equal to a threshold intensity, and a second output signal level in response to light having an illumination intensity less than a threshold intensity. The sensor further includes the ability to selectively alter the illumination intensity of the light emitted by the light source to a lower level between the threshold intensity and the normal operating intensity. Hence, operating at the lower intensity enables the sensor to detect translucent sheets or facilitates identification of marginally operable sensors.

    摘要翻译: 本发明是用于选择性地改变光学传感器的灵敏度的方法和装置。 传感器具有彼此光学对准的光源和检测器。 检测器响应于具有大于或等于阈值强度的照明强度的光产生第一输出信号电平,以及响应于具有小于阈值强度的照明强度的光而产生第二输出信号电平。 传感器还包括将光源发射的光的照明强度选择性地改变到阈值强度和正常操作强度之间的较低水平的能力。 因此,以较低强度的操作使得传感器能够检测半透明片材或便于识别边缘可操作的传感器。

    Adjustable normal force edge registering apparatus
    33.
    发明授权
    Adjustable normal force edge registering apparatus 失效
    可调法向力边缘配准装置

    公开(公告)号:US5253862A

    公开(公告)日:1993-10-19

    申请号:US812086

    申请日:1991-12-23

    IPC分类号: B65H5/06 B65H9/16

    摘要: A sheet handler for successively transporting sheet-like material units to and from processing stations in image processing devices such as printers, copiers, and scanners. The sheet handler includes an idler and driven cross-roller set. The rollers are preloaded so that a normal force exists between the rollers at the nip. The nip is positioned in a path for receiving the sheet like material units and to urge such units along the path and into alignment along a registration edge. Apparatus for adjusting the preloaded force are provided to thereby adjust the normal force on sheet-like material passing through the nip.

    摘要翻译: 用于在诸如打印机,复印机和扫描仪的图像处理设备中将片状材料单元连续地传送到处理站的处理器。 片材处理器包括惰轮和从动交叉滚子组。 辊被预加载,使得在辊隙之间的辊之间存在法向力。 辊隙位于用于接收片状材料单元的路径中,并且沿着路径推动这些单元并沿着配准边缘对齐。 提供了用于调节预加载力的装置,从而调节通过辊隙的片状材料上的法向力。

    Bottom vacuum corrugation feeder air knife calibration system and method
    34.
    发明授权
    Bottom vacuum corrugation feeder air knife calibration system and method 失效
    底部真空波纹给料机气刀校准系统及方法

    公开(公告)号:US5048813A

    公开(公告)日:1991-09-17

    申请号:US344197

    申请日:1989-04-27

    IPC分类号: G03B27/62 G03G15/00

    摘要: An air knife pressure calibration system and method for a bottom vacuum corrugation recirculating document feeder includes measuring the air pressure and adjusting an air pressure control valve of the air knife to a predetermined value. This valve position is stored in a non-volatile memory and can be used to create a table of values for various document stack heights by adding constant values that represent additional documents to the one document value. Thus, customized valve positions are accomplished that are machine as well as altitude sensitive.

    摘要翻译: 用于底部真空波纹循环文件进给器的气刀压力校准系统和方法包括测量空气压力并将气刀的空气压力控制阀调节到预定值。 该阀位置存储在非易失性存储器中,可用于通过将表示其他文档的常量值添加到一个文档值来为各种文档堆栈高度创建一个值表。 因此,完成了定制阀位置,这些位置是机器以及高度敏感的。

    Automatic dual mode sheet and web document transport for copiers
    35.
    发明授权
    Automatic dual mode sheet and web document transport for copiers 失效
    复印机自动双模板和纸张文件传输

    公开(公告)号:US4794429A

    公开(公告)日:1988-12-27

    申请号:US29027

    申请日:1987-03-23

    申请人: Thomas Acquaviva

    发明人: Thomas Acquaviva

    摘要: In an automatic document handling system for a copier, with a system for feeding and registering document sheets, including a platen transport system, wherein the platen transport system includes a document belt system and a vacuum system for retaining documents against the document belt, there is provided common document input and path systems for feeding either conventional document sheets or computer form or other web (CF) documents, the document belt system relatively low friction belt material, the vacuum system automatically maintaining a first vacuum level high enough to retain the conventional document sheets against the document belt system with sufficient force to resist slippage and function as their primary platen transport system, and a vacuum reduction system for automatically reducing the vacuum to a substantially lower level for CF documents which provides for slippage of CF documents relative to the document belt system, and a separate deskewing and driving system for the CF documents in cooperation with the platen transport system, for deskewing the CF web upstream of the platen and pulling through the platen transport system from downstream thereof, to provide a dual mode system in which the platen transport system provides for low frictional relative movement and an imaging background surface for CF documents, but is not their primary transport. There is a system for automatically sensing the acquisition of CF documents and in response automatically reducing the vacuum level and disengaging additional roller drive systems in the path which normally engage conventionally document sheets.

    Automatic copier show-around erase system
    36.
    发明授权
    Automatic copier show-around erase system 失效
    自动复印机显示擦除系统

    公开(公告)号:US4745438A

    公开(公告)日:1988-05-17

    申请号:US908052

    申请日:1986-09-16

    摘要: A fade-out system for a copier with a document feeder, for preventing the undesired development of areas of the photosensitive imaging surface relative to the desired latent images of the document with a variable magnification optical imaging system, preventing "show around" copy defects from the document feeder, where the document feeder transports the document sheets in a document path onto and over the copying platen of the copier. An array of plural document sensors is positioned in the document feeder for measuring both the length and width of the document sheets being transported onto the copying platen, and the fade-out system connects with and is controlled by both the array of plural document sensors and the magnification setting of the optical imaging system for preventing development of any areas of the photosensitive imaging surface outside of the latent images of the documents irrespective of the size of the document sheets or the magnification setting. The array of sensors is adjacent the platen and in the document path from both of the document sheet inputs to the platen. The fade-out system is further responsive to the actual size of the copy sheets on which copies are being made, for automatic flood illumination of areas of the photosensitive imaging surface outside of the smaller of the two of the document latent image area or the actual copy sheet size, by fading out any portions of the document latent image area which will not be engaged for image transfer by the copy sheet, and fading out otherwise developable nondocument latent image areas of the photosensitive imaging surface even if they are within areas of the photosensitive imaging surface which will be engaged by the copy sheets, so as to provide complete fade-out for any selected magnification or document size or copy size.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于具有文件馈送器的复印机的淡出系统,用于通过可变放大倍率光学成像系统防止光敏成像表面的区域相对于文档的所需潜像的不期望的显影,从而防止“复制”复制缺陷 文件馈送器,其中文件馈送器将文档路径传送到复印机的复印台上和上面。 多个文件传感器的阵列位于文件馈送器中,用于测量传送到复印台上的原稿的长度和宽度,并且淡出系统与多个文件传感器阵列连接并由两个文档传感器的阵列控制, 光学成像系统的放大率设置,用于防止文件的潜像之外的感光成像表面的任何区域的显影,而与文档片材的尺寸或放大倍率设置无关。 传感器阵列邻近台板,并在文件路径中与文档片材输入端相连。 淡出系统进一步响应于正在进行复印的复印纸的实际尺寸,用于对两个文档潜像区域中较小者的感光成像表面的区域进行自动泛光照明或实际 通过淡出文件潜像区域中不会被复印纸进行图像转印的任何部分的淡化,以及淡出光敏成像表面的其它可展开的非文件潜像区域,即使它们在 光敏成像表面将由复印纸接合,以便为任何选定的放大倍数或文档尺寸或复印尺寸提供完整的淡出。

    Plural image document set copying
    37.
    发明授权
    Plural image document set copying 失效
    多张图像文件集复制

    公开(公告)号:US4684241A

    公开(公告)日:1987-08-04

    申请号:US797288

    申请日:1985-12-16

    申请人: Thomas Acquaviva

    发明人: Thomas Acquaviva

    IPC分类号: G03G15/00 G03G21/00

    摘要: A method of more efficiently copying with a copier with a recirculating document handler for making plural precollated plural sheet copy sets from a set of plural document sheets being plurally recirculated; wherein the set of document sheets being recirculated has at least two document page images per document sheet side, producing copy sheets with at least two images per side from these document sheets, and the copier control is selectably modified to separate the copy sheets into at least two separate sub-sets of output copy sets having a number of sheets corresponding to the number of document page images per document sheet side, with the number of copy sub-sets being at least twice the number of the document sheets being recirculated in the document handler, and separately binding the output copy sets into the separated collated sub-sets in response to the modification of the control means with automatic on-line binding; including known, conventional, on-line paper slitting or cutting of the copy sheets for the separating of the copy sheets into the separate sub-sets.

    摘要翻译: 一种利用具有再循环文件处理器的复印机进行更有效地复印的方法,用于从多个文档片材的一组多个再循环中制造多个预先复胶的多个复印件组; 其中,所述一组文件片段被再循环,每个文档页面具有至少两个文档页面图像,产生具有来自这些文档页面的每侧至少两个图像的复印纸,并且可选地修改复印机控件以将复印纸分离成至少 输出副本集合的两个单独子集,其数量为她

    Magnetic ball-on-belt transport
    39.
    发明授权
    Magnetic ball-on-belt transport 失效
    磁球传送带

    公开(公告)号:US5915149A

    公开(公告)日:1999-06-22

    申请号:US882230

    申请日:1997-06-25

    IPC分类号: B65H5/02 G03G15/00

    摘要: A ball-on-belt transport includes a belt with a steel ball positioned on top of the belt and a magnet on the back side of the belt with the ball forming a nip with the belt to provide necessary normal force against a conveyed sheet and thereby allowing easy lateral pulling of sheets in clearing jams from the nip. Alternatively, a steel ball is retained while in contact with a belt to apply a normal force to a sheet on the belt equal to the weight of the steel ball. The ball is encased in a housing that is surrounded by a solenoid coil such that when current is applied to the coil, it acts as a solenoid and raises the ball off the belt surface and thus releases the nip pressure.

    摘要翻译: 球形皮带传送器包括具有位于皮带顶部的钢球的皮带和皮带后侧的磁体,其中球与皮带形成辊隙,以对传送的薄片提供必要的法向力,从而 允许在清除夹缝中的卡纸时容易地横向拉动纸张。 或者,钢球在与皮带接触的同时被保持,以对钢带上的片材施加与钢球重量相等的法向力。 球被包围在由螺线管线圈包围的壳体中,使得当电流施加到线圈时,其用作螺线管并将球从皮带表面提升,从而释放压区压力。

    Top vacuum corrugation feeder with articulating suction fingers
    40.
    发明授权
    Top vacuum corrugation feeder with articulating suction fingers 失效
    顶部真空波纹进给器,带有铰接吸嘴

    公开(公告)号:US5899449A

    公开(公告)日:1999-05-04

    申请号:US784634

    申请日:1997-01-21

    IPC分类号: B65H3/08 B65H3/12 B65H5/10

    CPC分类号: B65H3/0833 B65H3/128

    摘要: A top vacuum corrugation feeder includes articulating suction fingers to assist in raising the top sheet of a stack of sheets to the feedhead of the vacuum corrugation feeder. The suction fingers are rotated down from their interleaved position between feed belts to contact the top sheet in the sheet stack and raises the top sheet to the feed belts. As a result, the feeder can handle heavy sheets, curled sheets, and sheets which are edge welded.

    摘要翻译: 顶部真空波纹给送器包括铰接的吸入指状件,以帮助将一叠片材的顶片提升到真空波纹给送器的进料头。 吸引指从它们在进给带之间的交错位置向下旋转以接触片材堆叠中的顶片,并将顶片提升到进给带。 因此,进料器可以处理重的片材,卷曲的片材和边缘焊接的片材。