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US 8,985,581 B2Granted
Decoloring device and function management method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKen Iguchi, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Isao Yahata, Hiroyuki Taguchi, Hiroyuki Tsuchihashi, Hiroyuki Taki
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Abstract
When the presence or absence of a malfunction is respectively determined in a decoloring section or a separation device, and it is determined that either the decoloring section or the separation device is malfunctioning, only the other is executable.
Claims9
A decoloring device including:
- a first unit that includes:
- a sheet supply tray,
- a first sheet discharge tray,
- a first sheet carrying path that conveys a sheet supplied from the sheet supply tray to the sheet discharge tray,
- a decoloring section that decolors an image formed by a decolorable colorant on the sheet that is carried on the first sheet carrying path,
- a separation section that includes a scanner for reading the sheet decolored by the decoloring section, the separation section configured to discharge the sheet that the decoloring section has decolored to any one of a plurality of discharge destinations including the first sheet discharge tray based on a reading result of the scanner,
- a second sheet carrying path that diverges from the first sheet carrying path and that conveys the sheet that the decoloring section decolors to the separation section, and
- a flapper that switches a carrying destination of the sheet that passes through the decoloring section to the first sheet discharge tray on the first sheet carrying path or to the second sheet carrying path;
- and
- a second unit that is attachable to and detachable from the first unit and is one of the plurality of discharge destinations, and that includes a second sheet discharge tray that receives the sheet that is discharged to the second unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.