Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Printing apparatus capable of performing printing on partially-thick sheets
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Application No.: US15808093Application Date: 2017-11-09
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Publication No.: US10576761B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Hirokazu Yabune
- Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2016-226720 20161122
- Main IPC: B65H31/02
- IPC: B65H31/02 ; B41J13/00 ; B41J13/12 ; B65H43/08 ; B41J11/00 ; B65H43/06 ; B41J13/10 ; B65H29/00 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes: a sheet discharge tray having an upstream portion tilted to extend downward in a direction of gravity; an upper member limiting a height of a space above the sheet discharge tray; a full sensor configured to detect an upstream end of a top sheet of sheets stacked on the sheet discharge tray; a counter configured to count a number of the sheets discharged onto the sheet discharge tray; and a controller. The controller determines whether to stop discharging of the sheets to the sheet discharge tray, based on a detection result of the full sensor upon the sheets to be stacked on the sheet discharge tray including only sheets each with uniform thickness and based on a count value of the counter upon the sheets to be stacked on the sheet discharge tray including a sheet with thickness varying partly.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180141354A1 PRINTING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PERFORMING PRINTING ON PARTIALLY-THICK SHEETS Public/Granted day:2018-05-24
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