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US 8,911,167 B2Granted
Sheet cutting device and printer
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsManabu Kanazawa, Masahito Yoshida
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Abstract
A sheet cutting device includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet, a cutting unit configured to cut the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and a conveyance belt configured to convey a cut piece cut from the sheet cut by the cutting unit in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the conveyance unit.
Claims10
A sheet cutting device comprising:
- a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet;
- a cutting unit configured to cut the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit;
- and
- a conveyance belt configured to convey a waste portion cut from the sheet cut by the cutting unit;
- and
- a control unit configured to stop the conveyance belt until a predetermined time has elapsed after the cutting unit has stopped cutting the sheet, and then drive the conveyance belt to convey the waste portion after the predetermined time has elapsed.
3 more elements
A method for controlling a sheet cutting device, the method comprising:
- conveying a sheet;
- cutting the sheet conveyed;
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- stopping a conveyance belt until a predetermined time has elapsed after the cutting the sheet has stopped, and then driving the conveyance belt to convey with the conveying belt a waste portion cut from the sheet cut by the cutting after the predetermined time has elapsed.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.