Sheet conveying device that can change sheet conveying direction
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsYuji Kobayashi, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yuta Tachibana
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Abstract
A sheet conveying device includes: a roller that conveys a sheet; a leading end retaining member that temporarily retaining a front portion in a conveying direction of the sheet conveyed by the roller; a moving unit that moves a rear portion of the sheet toward a direction intersecting the conveying direction using a pushing member while the sheet is retained by the leading end retaining member, the pushing member being located on a downstream side of the roller; and an inverting and conveying roller that, after the moving unit moves the sheet, conveys the sheet while the rear portion of the sheet is set to a head.
Claims22
A sheet conveying device comprising:
- a first conveying unit for conveying a sheet;
- a retaining unit for temporarily retaining a front portion in a conveying direction of the sheet conveyed by said first conveying unit;
- a moving unit for moving a rear portion of said sheet toward a direction intersecting said conveying direction using a pushing member while said sheet is retained by said retaining unit, said pushing member being located on a downstream side of said first conveying unit;
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- a second conveying unit for, after said moving unit moves said sheet, conveying said sheet while the rear portion of said sheet is set to a head.
A sheet conveying device control method comprising the steps of:
- a first conveying step of conveying a sheet using a first conveying unit;
- a retaining step of retaining temporarily a front portion in a conveying direction of said sheet conveyed in said first conveying step;
- a moving step of moving a rear portion of said sheet toward a direction intersecting said conveying direction using a pushing member while said sheet is retained in said retaining step, said pushing member being located on a downstream side of said first conveying unit;
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- a second conveying step of conveying said sheet using a second conveying unit while the rear portion of said sheet is set to a head after said sheet is moved in said moving step.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with a control program for sheet conveying device causing a computer to execute the steps of:
- a first conveying step of conveying a sheet using a first conveying unit;
- a retaining step of retaining temporarily a front portion in a conveying direction of said sheet conveyed in said first conveying step;
- a moving step of moving a rear portion of said sheet toward a direction intersecting said conveying direction using a pushing member while said sheet is retained in said retaining step, said pushing member being located on a downstream side of said first conveying unit;
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- a second conveying step of conveying said sheet using a second conveying unit while the rear portion of said sheet is set to a head after said sheet is moved in said moving step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.