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US 11,535,476 B2Granted
Sheet stacking device, sheet stacking method, sheet stacking program, counter ejector, and box making machine
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsHideaki Nagai, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Koshi Tanimoto, Kenta Nakao
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Abstract
A sheet stacking device is provided with a hopper unit configured to stack a sheet, a feeding unit configured to feed out the sheet to the hopper unit, a distance detection unit configured to detect an inter-sheet distance, in the vertical direction, between a rear end portion of the sheet that is preceding and a tip end portion of the sheet that is subsequent, and an output unit configured to output a behavior stabilization command for the sheet based on the inter-sheet distance.
Claims12
A sheet stacking device comprising:
- a hopper unit configured to stack a sheet;
- a feeding unit configured to feed out the sheet to the hopper unit;
- a distance detection unit configured to detect an inter-sheet distance, in a vertical direction, between a rear end portion of a preceding sheet that is fed out by the feeding unit, and a tip end portion of the sheet as the sheet is subsequently fed out by the feeding unit after the preceding sheet;
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- an output unit that controls a sheet feeding speed by outputting, based on the inter-sheet distance, a first behavior stabilization command for the sheet.
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