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US 10,894,685 B2Granted
Sheet collection device, sheet collection system, sheet collection method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKaneo Yoda, Seiichi Taniguchi
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Abstract
A sheet collection device includes a discrimination portion that discriminates the type of sheet, a plurality of containers that store sheets, a transport portion that transports the sheets to any one container from among the plurality of containers based on the discrimination result by the discrimination portion, an accumulation portion that accumulates progress information of a storage amount of sheets in the container, and a notification portion that predicts a time at which the storage amount of the sheets that are stored in the containers based on the progress information reaches a first predetermined amount and notifies the predicted time to a terminal device.
Claims5
A sheet collection device comprising:
- a discrimination portion that discriminates at least one or more of whether or not each of sheets is an A4 size sheet, whether or not each of the sheets is a fine quality paper, whether or not each of the sheets is a carbon paper, or whether or not each of the sheets is a vinyl coated paper;
- a plurality of containers that store the sheets;
- a transport portion that transports the sheets to any one container from among the plurality of containers based on the discrimination result by the discrimination portion;
- an accumulation portion that accumulates progress information of a storage amount of sheets in the containers;
- a notification portion that predicts a time at which the storage amount of the sheets that are stored in the containers reaches a first predetermined amount based on the progress information and notifies the predicted time to a terminal device;
- and
- an initialization portion that initializes the storage amount of sheets that are stored in the containers to zero,
- in response to initialization of the storage amount of the sheets in at least one of the containers to zero at the initialization portion, the notification portion predicting the time at which the storage amount of the sheets to be stored in the at least one of the containers reaches the first predetermined amount, based on the progress information that has been accumulated for the storage amount of the sheets in the at least one of the containers before the initialization, and notifying the predicted time to the terminal device.
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A sheet collection system including a sheet collection device and a host device that is connected to the sheet collection device,
- wherein the sheet collection device includes
- a discrimination portion that discriminates at least one or more of whether or not each of sheets is an A4 size sheet, whether or not each of the sheets is a fine quality paper, whether or not each of the sheets is a carbon paper, or whether or not each of the sheets is a vinyl coated paper,
- a plurality of containers that store the sheets,
- a transport portion that transports the sheets to any one container from among the plurality of containers based on the discrimination result by the discrimination portion, and an initialization portion that initializes a storage amount of sheets that are stored in the containers to zero, and
- the host device includes
- an accumulation portion that accumulates progress information of the storage amount of sheets in the containers, and
- a notification portion that predicts a time at which the storage amount of the sheets that are stored in the containers reaches a first predetermined amount based on the progress information and notifies the predicted time to a terminal device, and
- in response to initialization of the storage amount of the sheets in at least one of the containers to zero at the initialization portion, the notification portion predicts the time at which the storage amount of the sheets to be stored in the at least one of the containers reaches the first predetermined amount, based on the progress information that has been accumulated for the storage amount of the sheets in the at least one of the containers before the initialization, and notifies the predicted time to the terminal device.
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A sheet collection method comprising:
- discriminating at least one or more of whether or not each of sheets is an A4 size sheet, whether or not each of the sheets is a fine quality paper, whether or not each of the sheets is a carbon paper, or whether or not each of the sheets is a vinyl coated paper;
- transporting the sheets to any one container from among a plurality of containers that store the sheets based on the discrimination result;
- accumulating progress information of a storage amount of sheets in the containers;
- predicting a time at which the storage amount of the sheets that are stored in the containers reaches a first predetermined amount based on the progress information and notifying the predicted time to a terminal device;
- and
- initializing the storage amount of sheets that are stored in the containers to zero, wherein
- in response to initializing of the storage amount of the sheets in at least one of the containers to zero, the time at which the storage amount of the sheets to be stored in the at least one of the containers reaches the first predetermined amount is predicted based on the progress information that has been accumulated for the storage amount of the sheets in the at least one of the containers before the initializing, and the predicted time is notified to the terminal device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.