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US 11,760,591 B2Granted
Sheet stacking device and printing apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTomonori Tamura
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Abstract
A sheet stacking device include a guide unit and a blower. The guide unit receives a downstream end of a sheet in a sheet conveyance direction and guides the sheet downstream in the sheet conveyance direction. The blower blows air toward the sheet guided by the guide unit. A region of the blower from which the air is blown is changeable in response to a size of the sheet.
Claims14
A sheet stacking device comprising:
- a conveyance roller pair configured to guide a sheet in a sheet conveyance direction,
- a guide unit configured to receive a downstream end of the sheet conveyed in the sheet conveyance direction directly from the conveyance roller pair and guide the sheet downstream in the sheet conveyance direction, the guide unit separated from the conveyance roller pair;
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- a blower configured to blow air perpendicular to and toward a face of the sheet guided by the guide unit, a region of the blower from which the air is blown being changeable in response to a size of the sheet.
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A sheet stacking device comprising:
- a guide unit configured to receive a downstream end of a sheet conveyed in a sheet conveyance direction and guide the sheet downstream in the sheet conveyance direction, the guide unit including multiple endless belts configured to circumferentially rotate, the multiple endless belts being disposed at an interval in a direction perpendicular to the sheet conveyance direction;
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- a blower including multiple airflow generators and configured to blow air toward the sheet guided by the guide unit, a region of the blower from which the air is blown being changeable in response to a size of the sheet, the multiple airflow generators are disposed between the multiple endless belts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.