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US 11,780,698 B2Granted
Medium processing device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKohei Ueno, Nobuyuki Mizushima, Yutaro Harada, Shunpei Yamaguchi
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Abstract
Provided is a medium processing device including a supply portion supplying a medium, a transporter transporting the medium supplied from the supply portion, an contact portion that a tip of the medium transported by the transporter is brought into contact with, a stacker in which the medium brought into contact with the contact portion is stacked, and a processor processing the medium stacked in the stacker, in which the transporter includes a gripper that is configured to move along a transport path of the medium, grips a tip of the medium, and moves.
Claims9
A medium processing device comprising;
- a supply portion supplying a medium;
- a transporter transporting the medium supplied from the supply portion;
- a contact portion with which a tip of the medium transported by the transporter in a transport direction is brought into contact;
- a stacker on which the medium brought into contact with the contact portion is stacked;
- and
- a processor processing the medium stacked in the stacker,
- wherein the transporter includes a gripper configured to move in an extending direction of the stacker to grip the tip of the medium,
- wherein the contact portion is secured to the stacker in a fixed position in relation to a lower end of the stacker, is separate from the transporter and the gripper, and includes a slit through which the transporter can pass,
- wherein the transporter grips, by the gripper, the medium positioned in a range where a feeding force of the supply portion applies and moves the medium toward the contact portion, and
- wherein when the transporter transports and stacks in the stacker the medium which is supplied from the supply portion, a region in which the transporter transports the medium does not overlap with a region in which the medium is stacked.
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A medium processing device comprising;
- a supply portion supplying a medium;
- a transporter transporting the medium supplied from the supply portion;
- a contact portion with which a tip of the medium transported by the transporter in a transport direction is brought into contact;
- a stacker on which the medium brought into contact with the contact portion is stacked;
- and
- a processor processing the medium stacked in the stacker,
- wherein the transporter includes a gripper configured to move in an extending direction of the stacker to grip the tip of the medium,
- wherein the contact portion is secured to the stacker and is separate from the transporter and the gripper,
- wherein the transporter grips, by the gripper, the medium positioned in a range where a feeding force of the supply portion applies and the transporter moves the medium toward the contact portion, and
- wherein when the last medium is supplied from the supply portion, the transporter moves, together with a plurality of medium stacked in the stacker that comprise a medium bundle, to the range where the feeding force of the supply portion applies, grips, by the gripper, the entire medium bundle to which the last medium is added, and moves toward the contact portion.
7 more elements
A medium processing device comprising;
- a supply portion supplying a medium;
- a transporter transporting the medium supplied from the supply portion;
- a contact portion with which a tip of the medium transported by the transporter in a transport direction is brought into contact;
- a stacker on which the medium brought into contact with the contact portion is stacked;
- and
- a processor processing the medium stacked in the stacker,
- wherein the transporter includes a gripper configured to move in an extending direction of the stacker to grip the tip of the medium,
- wherein the contact portion is secured to the stacker and is separate from the transporter and the gripper,
- wherein each time the medium is supplied by the supply portion, the transporter transports the medium toward the contact portion and stacks the medium on the stacker, and
- wherein the processing performed by the processor includes saddle stitching processing in which a center of the medium in the transport direction is stitched in a state where the medium is stacked in the stacker with the tips arranged and saddle folding processing in which the center of the medium is folded.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.