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US 10,301,126 B2Granted
Medium-suction apparatus, image forming system, and medium inspection system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKyosuke Nakada
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Abstract
A medium-suction apparatus includes a conveyer to convey a medium in a conveyance direction, a first suction unit to perform suction operation on the medium to attract the medium to the conveyer, and a second suction unit to perform the suction operation on the medium to attract the medium to the conveyer. The second suction unit being disposed next to the first suction unit in a width direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction. The second suction unit starts the suction operation after the first suction unit starts the suction operation.
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A medium-suction apparatus comprising:
- a conveyer to convey a medium in a predetermined conveyance direction;
- a first suction unit to perform a first suction operation on the medium to attract the medium to the conveyer;
- a second suction unit to perform a second suction operation on the medium to attract the medium to the conveyer, the second suction unit being disposed next to the first suction unit in a width direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction;
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- a controller to control the first suction unit to start to perform the first suction operation on the medium at a first timing and to control the second suction unit to start to perform the second suction operation on the medium at a second timing, which is a predetermined amount of time, registered by the controller, after the first timing at which the first suction unit starts performing the first suction operation on the medium.
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A medium-suction apparatus comprising:
- a conveyer to convey a medium in a predetermined conveyance direction;
- a first suction unit to perform a suction operation on the medium to attract the medium to the conveyer;
- a second suction unit to perform a suction operation on the medium to attract the medium to the conveyer, the second suction unit being disposed next to the first suction unit in a width direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction;
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- a controller to control a timing of starting the suction operation of each of the first suction unit and the second suction unit according to a predetermined characteristic of medium,
- wherein the second suction unit starts the suction operation after the first suction unit starts the suction operation,
- the predetermined characteristic of the medium is thickness of the medium,
- the controller adjusts a time interval between starts of the suction operations of the first suction unit and the second suction unit according to the thickness of the medium, and
- the controller lengthens the time interval when the thickness of the medium is less than a predetermined value compared to when the thickness of the medium is not less than the predetermined value.
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A medium-suction apparatus comprising:
- a conveyer to convey a medium in a predetermined conveyance direction;
- a first suction unit to perform a suction operation on the medium to attract the medium to the conveyer;
- a second suction unit to perform a suction operation on the medium to attract the medium to the conveyer, the second suction unit being disposed next to the first suction unit in a width direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction;
- a third suction unit to perform a suction operation on the medium to attract the medium to the conveyer;
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- a controller to control a timing of starting the suction operation of each of the first suction unit, the second suction unit, and the third suction unit according to a predetermined characteristic of medium,
- wherein the second suction unit starts the suction operation after the first suction unit starts the suction operation,
- the third suction unit is disposed on an opposite side of the second suction unit with respect to the first suction unit in the width direction,
- the second suction unit and the third suction unit simultaneously start the suction operations after the first suction unit starts the suction operation,
- the predetermined characteristic of the medium is thickness of the medium,
- the controller controls time intervals between starts of the suction operations of the first suction unit, the second suction unit, and the third suction unit according to the thickness of the medium,
- the controller lengthens the time intervals when the thickness of the medium is less than a predetermined value compared to when the thickness of the medium is not less than the predetermined value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.