Sheet conveyance apparatus, control method of the same, and storage medium storing control program of the same
AssigneeHorizon Inc.
InventorEiji Aoki
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Abstract
A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a control unit (120) that controls driving of a belt drive mechanism (4). The control unit (120) performs control such that the sheet is conveyed from the sheet accumulation area if (a) it is determined that the number of sheets currently accumulated in the sheet accumulation area is two or greater, while the sheet is not conveyed from the sheet accumulation area if (b) it is determined that the number of sheets currently accumulated in the sheet accumulation area is one.
Claims7
A sheet conveyance apparatus that conveys a sheet fed out of an upstream sheet processing apparatus to a downstream sheet processing apparatus, the sheet conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a conveying unit configured to convey the sheet;
- a conveying unit drive mechanism configured to drive the conveying unit;
- a sheet accumulation area in which the sheet fed out of the upstream sheet processing apparatus is accumulated on the conveying unit;
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- a control unit configured to control conveyance of the sheet performed by the conveying unit,
- wherein the conveying unit is configured to convey a lowermost sheet of one or more sheets accumulated in the sheet accumulation area one by one,
- wherein the control unit includes a counter unit configured to count a number of sheets accumulated in the sheet accumulation area, and
- wherein, when a conveyance instruction signal for conveying the sheet from the sheet accumulation area is received and the number of the sheets currently accumulated in the sheet accumulation area is counted to be one by the counter unit, the control unit stops conveyance of the one sheet without conveying the one sheet from the sheet accumulation area until a next sheet is guided onto the one sheet.
A control method of a sheet conveyance apparatus that conveys a sheet fed out of an upstream sheet processing apparatus to a downstream sheet processing apparatus, wherein the sheet conveyance apparatus comprises:
- a conveying unit that conveys the sheet;
- a conveying unit drive mechanism that drives the conveying unit;
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- a sheet accumulation area in which the sheet fed out of the upstream sheet processing apparatus is accumulated on the conveying unit,
- wherein the conveying unit is configured to convey a lowermost sheet of one or more sheets accumulated in the sheet accumulation area one by one,
- wherein the control method comprises:
- when a conveyance instruction signal for conveying the sheet from the sheet accumulation area is received and the number of sheets currently accumulated in the sheet accumulation area is counted to be one, stopping conveyance of the one sheet without conveying the one sheet from the sheet accumulation area until a next sheet is guided onto the one sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.