Guide mechanism and paper sheet handling apparatus
AssigneeFujitsu Frontech Limited
InventorsTakashi Wada, Yuji Tanaka, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Atsushi Ando
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Abstract
A guide mechanism including a guide that regulates a position of a paper sheet stacked includes a power transmitter that moves the guide to three or more positions by means of power obtained from a separate mechanism, which is different from the guide mechanism, and a switching drive that switches the power transmitter between a transmission state in which the power of the separate mechanism is transmitted to the guide and a non-transmission state in which the power of the separate mechanism is not transmitted.
Claims3
A guide mechanism including a guide that regulates a position of a paper sheet stacked, the guide mechanism comprising:
- a power transmitter that moves the guide to three or more positions by means of power obtained from a separate mechanism, which is different from the guide mechanism;
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- a switching drive that switches the power transmitter between a transmission state in which the power of the separate mechanism is transmitted to the guide and a non-transmission state in which the power of the separate mechanism is not transmitted,
- wherein the power transmitter includes an intermittent gear having teeth only in a part of a rotation direction, and
- wherein the switching drive switches the power transmitter to the transmission state by rotating the intermittent gear such that the teeth mesh with the separate mechanism, and switches the power transmitter to the non-transmission state by rotating the intermittent gear such that the teeth do not mesh with the separate mechanism.
A paper sheet handling apparatus comprising a guide mechanism, wherein the guide mechanism includes
- a guide that regulates a position of a paper sheet stacked,
- a power transmitter that moves the guide to three or more positions by means of power obtained from a separate mechanism, which is different from the guide mechanism, and
- a switching drive that switches the power transmitter between a transmission state in which the power of the separate mechanism is transmitted to the guide and a non-transmission state in which the power of the separate mechanism is not transmitted,
- wherein the power transmitter includes an intermittent gear having teeth only in a part of a rotation direction, and
- wherein the switching drive switches the power transmitter to the transmission state by rotating the intermittent gear such that the teeth mesh with the separate mechanism, and switches the power transmitter to the non-transmission state by rotating the intermittent gear such that the teeth do not mesh with the separate mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.