Sheet supply device and medium processing device
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorsNaoya Tonooka, Makoto Kitamura
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Abstract
A sheet supply device that is addable to a medium processing device includes a storage part storing a medium and a controller. The controller performs a first operation in which the medium is supplied from the storage part of the sheet supply device, and a second operation in which another medium supplied from an upstream side of a medium path is carried to a downstream side. When the second operation is performed, the controller operates the carrying part by transmitting a drive force to the carrying part via the transmission mechanism without operating the carrying transmission member.
Claims12
A sheet supply device that is addable to a medium processing device and that is configured to supply media to the medium processing device, the sheet supply device comprising:
- a storage part that stores a first medium;
- a sheet supply part that supplies the first medium from the storage part;
- a sheet carrying path through which a second medium is carried from an upstream side of a medium path;
- a carrying part that carries the first medium and the second medium to a downstream side of the medium path;
- a drive source that provides a drive force to each of the sheet supply part and the carrying part;
- a carrying transmission member that selectively transmits the drive force to the carrying part;
- a transmission mechanism that transmits the drive force to the carrying part without transmitting the drive force via the carrying transmission member;
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- a controller that operates the drive source and the carrying transmission member, wherein
- the controller performs a first operation in which the first medium is supplied from the storage part of the sheet supply device, and a second operation in which the second medium supplied from the upstream side is carried to the downstream side, and
- when the second operation is performed, the controller operates the carrying part by transmitting the drive force to the carrying part via the transmission mechanism without operating the carrying transmission member.
A medium processing device, comprising:
- an image forming unit that forms an image with developer;
- a fusion unit that fuse the image by the image forming unit;
- the sheet supply device of claim and a duplicate of the sheet supply device that are arranged on the upstream side from the image forming unit, one being a first sheet supply device on the upstream side and the other being a second sheet supply device on the downstream side, each of the first and second sheet supply devices having an inlet and outlet;
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- a sheet carrying path through which the first and second media are carried to the image forming unit, wherein
- the outlet of the first sheet supply device is connected to the inlet of the second sheet supply device so that the second medium supplied from the first sheet supply device is carried to the image forming unit through the second sheet supply device.
A sheet supply device, comprising:
- a storage part that stores a medium;
- a drive source that provides a drive force;
- a sheet supply part that supplies the medium to a medium path from the storage part;
- a carrying part that carries the medium to a downstream side of the medium path;
- a carrying transmission member that transmits the drive force to the carrying part;
- a transmission mechanism that transmits the drive force to the carrying part without transmitting the drive force via the carrying transmission member;
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- a controller that operates the drive source and the carrying transmission member, wherein
- the controller is configured to switch a first operation, in which the drive force is conveyed to the carrying part via the carrying transmission member, and a second operation, in which the drive force is conveyed to the carrying part via the transmission mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.