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公开(公告)号:US12091269B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-17
申请号:US18050176
申请日:2022-10-27
CPC分类号: B65H1/18 , B65H1/20 , B65H3/128 , B65H3/48 , B65H7/20 , B65H2511/20 , B65H2511/30 , B65H2801/06
摘要: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet stacker, an air blower, a suction feeder, a lifting mechanism, an elevation detection sensor, an elevation detection sensor, a feed detection sensor, and processing circuitry. The air blower blows air to float an uppermost sheet of sheets stacked on the sheet stacker. The processing circuitry drives the lifting mechanism such that the sheet stacker is lifted by an elevation amount determined based on a sheet thickness of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacker, each time a sheet is detected when a number of sheets detected is smaller than a threshold number of sheets, and stops lifting of the sheet stacker until a sheet is not detected when the number of sheets reaches the threshold number of sheets, while repeatedly feeding the uppermost sheet and counting the number of sheets.
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公开(公告)号:US20230159289A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US18050176
申请日:2022-10-27
CPC分类号: B65H1/18 , B65H3/128 , B65H3/48 , B65H7/20 , B65H1/20 , B65H2511/20 , B65H2511/30 , B65H2801/06
摘要: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet stacker, an air blower, a suction feeder, a lifting mechanism, an elevation detection sensor, an elevation detection sensor, a feed detection sensor, and processing circuitry. The air blower blows air to float an uppermost sheet of sheets stacked on the sheet stacker. The processing circuitry drives the lifting mechanism such that the sheet stacker is lifted by an elevation amount determined based on a sheet thickness of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacker, each time a sheet is detected when a number of sheets detected is smaller than a threshold number of sheets, and stops lifting of the sheet stacker until a sheet is not detected when the number of sheets reaches the threshold number of sheets, while repeatedly feeding the uppermost sheet and counting the number of sheets.
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公开(公告)号:US10315870B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-11
申请号:US15896417
申请日:2018-02-14
申请人: Toshihiro Okutsu , Takashi Fukumoto , Masaki Ishizaki , Tatsuya Sugawara , Sachika Tamaki , Hideaki Takahashi , Hidetoshi Kojima , Yohsuke Takamiya
发明人: Toshihiro Okutsu , Takashi Fukumoto , Masaki Ishizaki , Tatsuya Sugawara , Sachika Tamaki , Hideaki Takahashi , Hidetoshi Kojima , Yohsuke Takamiya
摘要: A sheet feeding device, which is included in an image forming apparatus and an image forming system, includes a sheet loader, an air drawing body, an attracting and conveying device, an air duct and a blocking device. The sheet loader is a device on which a bundle of sheets is loaded. The air drawing body is configured to generate suction air. The attracting and conveying device is configured to attract a sheet on top of the bundle of sheets by the suction air and convey the sheet. The air duct is configured to intake the suction air drawn by the air drawing body, to the attracting and conveying device. The blocking device is configured to block the suction air in the air duct.
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公开(公告)号:US20240034578A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-01
申请号:US18221828
申请日:2023-07-13
CPC分类号: B65H3/08 , B65H3/48 , B65H1/14 , B65H2511/20 , B65H2801/06
摘要: A sheet feeder includes a sheet loading tray, an air blower, a side air blower, and processing circuitry. The sheet loading tray loads sheets. The air blower blows air to the sheets to float and separate the sheets. The side air blower blows air to the sheets to separate the sheets. The processing circuitry controls a tray elevator to rise the sheet loading tray to move the sheets to an upper limit position, after a predetermined time has elapsed from a time when the sheets are loaded on the sheet loading tray. The processing circuitry causes the air blower and the side air blower to blow air to the sheets to perform sheet separation and controls the tray elevator to lower the sheet loading tray to a position at which an intermediate remaining-sheet sensor is disposed, after the sheet separation ends.
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