POSITIONING ASSEMBLY AND SHEET MATERIAL PROCESSING MACHINE

    公开(公告)号:US20240166459A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-23

    申请号:US18548694

    申请日:2022-02-28

    Applicant: BOBST MEX SA

    Abstract: A positioning assembly (30) for positioning a sheet material, especially at an entry portion of a sheet material processing machine, is described. It comprises a support beam (32) on which at least a portion of a sheet material to be positioned can be placed and a plurality of clamping fingers (38). The support beam (32) is coupled to a drive unit (60) configured for translationally moving the support beam (32) along a travelling direction (y) of the sheet material, translationally moving the support beam (32) along a direction (x) transverse to the travelling direction (y) and rotationally moving the support beam (32) with respect to a pivot axis (z) being perpendicular to the traveling direction (y) and the transverse direction (x). Each of the clamping fingers (38) is coupled to an individual clamping finger actuation unit (40). Moreover, a sheet material processing machine comprising such a positioning assembly (30) is presented.

    SHEET CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20240077825A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18459690

    申请日:2023-09-01

    Inventor: SO MATSUMOTO

    CPC classification number: G03G15/6567 B65H7/10 B65H9/04 B65H2404/144

    Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a rotary member pair, a movement portion, a detection portion, an abutment member, an oblique conveyance portion, and a controller configured to, on a basis of a detection result of the detection portion, move the rotary member pair in a width direction by the movement portion such that a position, in the width direction, of the downstream end of the sheet is a set position in a state in which the rotary member pair is nipping the sheet and before the sheet reaches the oblique conveyance portion. The controller is configured to execute a correction mode of correcting the set position.

    SHEET CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20240059518A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-22

    申请号:US18449084

    申请日:2023-08-14

    Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a rotary member pair, a moving unit configured to move the rotary member pair in a width direction orthogonal to a sheet conveyance direction, an abutment member, an obliquely conveying portion, a detection portion, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute (1) a first mode of controlling the moving unit such that the rotary member pair is moved in the width direction based on a detection result of the detection portion before the sheet arrives at the obliquely conveying portion, and (2) a second mode of controlling the moving unit such that the rotary member pair is moved in a second direction regardless of a detection result of the detection portion in a state where the sheet is nipped by the rotary member pair and before the sheet arrives at the obliquely conveying portion.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230341804A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-26

    申请号:US18346991

    申请日:2023-07-05

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, an oblique movement correcting portion including a first registration roller pair and a first moving portion, a reversing portion, and a re-feeding portion. The reversing portion includes a reversing roller pair and a second moving portion. The re-feeding portion includes a second registration roller pair. When an image is formed on a second surface of a sheet opposite from a first surface of the sheet, a side end position of the sheet is corrected by the second moving portion and oblique movement of the sheet is corrected, and then the side end position of the sheet is corrected again by the first moving means and the sheet is fed to the image forming portion.

    Sheet positioning member, sheet storage device including sheet positioning member, and image processing apparatus including sheet storage device

    公开(公告)号:US11247856B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-15

    申请号:US16696930

    申请日:2019-11-26

    Inventor: Dang Long Bui

    Abstract: A sheet positioning member is provided on a sheet placing surface in such a way as to be movable in a predetermined first direction. The sheet positioning member includes a moving body, an abutting portion, an operation member, and a cam portion. The moving body moves in the first direction on the sheet placing surface. The abutting portion has an abutting surface that abuts on the side end portion when the sheet positioning member positions the sheet. The operation member is supported by the moving body so as to be pivotable around a support shaft that extends in the first direction, on a side of a back surface of the abutting portion. The cam portion displaces the abutting portion toward the side end portion by being pressed by the operation member in response to a pivoting operation of the operation member.

    Register, a processing machine and a method for placing plate-like elements

    公开(公告)号:US10717616B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-21

    申请号:US16098583

    申请日:2017-05-10

    Applicant: BOBST MEX SA

    Inventor: Marco Cardillo

    Abstract: A register (20; 60) for a processing machine (1) for processing plate-like elements (10) includes a gripping element (21; 22) for placing the plate-like elements (10) in a gripper bar (31) of a conveyor (30) of a processing machine (1) conveying the plate-like elements (10) in a longitudinal direction, an actuator module (201, 202) to drive the gripping element (21; 22), at least one front correction sensor module (7) configured to measure the front position of register marks (12a) printed on a front section of the plate-like element (10) grasped by the gripping element (21; 22). The register (20; 60) includes at least one front pre-correction sensor module (80), placed upstream of the front correction sensor module (7) in the longitudinal direction, the front pre-correction sensor module (80) is configured: to detect the passage of a front transversel edge of the plate-like element (10) in at least two longitudinally spaced lateral axis of detection (P1, P2), one located in front of the other, and to provide measurements to a computation and control unit (40) of the processing machine (1) that is configured: to control the actuator module (201, 202) in order to move the gripping element (21; 22) toward the gripper bar (31) and to activate the gripping element (21; 22) in order to grasp a plate-like element (10). Also a processing machine for processing plate-like elements includes the register. A method for placing plate-like elements within a processing machine is disclosed.

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