US 12,168,586 B2
Sheet transport device and method of controlling sheet transport device preliminary class
Kenji Uchibori, Shiojiri (JP); Masaki Miyazawa, Matsumoto (JP); Hirohisa Adachi, Matsukawa-machi (JP); and Shun Hara, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/162,582.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-014031 (JP), filed on Feb. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0242367 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 31/02 (2006.01); B65H 29/38 (2006.01); B65H 31/20 (2006.01); B65H 31/36 (2006.01); B65H 43/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 31/02 (2013.01) [B65H 29/38 (2013.01); B65H 31/20 (2013.01); B65H 31/36 (2013.01); B65H 43/00 (2013.01); B65H 2301/541 (2013.01); B65H 2403/512 (2013.01); B65H 2404/1114 (2013.01); B65H 2405/11161 (2013.01); B65H 2405/11162 (2013.01); B65H 2511/10 (2013.01); B65H 2511/30 (2013.01); B65H 2515/10 (2013.01); B65H 2515/12 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet transport device comprising:
a loading unit at which a sheet to be conveyed is loaded;
a transport unit configured to impart to the sheet loaded at a sheet loading surface of the loading unit a transport force for transporting the sheet toward an alignment unit; and
an adjustment unit configured to adjust the transport force, wherein
the adjustment unit includes
a movable loading unit formed so that at least part of the sheet loading surface is configured to protrude toward the transport unit and
a driving unit configured to displace the movable loading unit in a protruding direction and a retracting direction.