Method and apparatus for feeding sheets of media from a media stack in an image production device
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsRobert Alan Clark, Zhigang Fan
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for feeding sheets of media from a media stack in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include fluffing a stack of media with a predetermined amount of air flow, sensing a number of fluffed media sheets in the media stack, determining if the number of fluffed media sheets equals or exceeds a predetermined value, wherein if it is determined that the number of fluffed media sheets equals or exceeds the predetermined value, feeding the fluffed media sheets to an image production section of the image production device.
Claims21
A method for feeding sheets of media from a media stack in an image production device, comprising:
- fluffing a stack of media with a predetermined amount of air flow;
- sensing fluffed media sheets in the media stack to determine a number of fluffed media sheets;
- determining if the number of fluffed media sheets equals or exceeds a predetermined value specifying a threshold value for the number of fluffed media sheets;
- and
- feeding the fluffed media sheets to an image production section of the image production device, when it is determined that the number of fluffed media sheets equals or exceeds the predetermined value.
A fluff management unit for use with an image production device, comprising:
- a fluffer that fluffs a stack of media in the image production device with a predetermined amount of air flow;
- a fluff sensor that senses fluffed media sheets in the media stack to determine a number of fluffed media sheets;
- and
- a fluff controller that determines when the number of fluffed media sheets equals or exceeds a predetermined value, the predetermined value specifying a threshold value for the number of fluffed media sheets,
- wherein, when the fluff controller determines that the number of fluffed media sheets equals or exceeds the predetermined value, the fluff controller feeds the fluffed media sheets to an image production section of the image production device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a computing device, causes the computing device to execute a method for feeding sheets of media from a media stack in an image production device, the method comprising:
- fluffing a stack of media with a predetermined amount of air flow;
- sensing fluffed media sheets in the media stack to determine a number of fluffed media sheets;
- determining if the number of fluffed media sheets equals or exceeds a predetermined value specifying a threshold value for the number of fluffed media sheets;
- and
- feeding the fluffed media sheets to an image production section of the image production device when it is determined that the number of fluffed media sheets equals or exceeds the predetermined value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.