Timing control for letter producing system and inserting and sealing unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9266298-B2
Application number	US-201313868827-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2013
Priority date	Apr 26, 2012
Publication date	Feb 23, 2016
Grant date	Feb 23, 2016

Abstract

A letter producing system includes: a printing unit for performing printing on a paper sheet for enclosure and a paper sheet for envelope and outputting the paper sheet for enclosure before the paper sheet for envelope; an inserting and sealing unit for making an envelope from the paper sheet for envelope and inserting and sealing the paper sheet for enclosure in the envelope; an enclosure size obtaining section for obtaining size information of the enclosure; a paper output timing obtaining section for obtaining information of output timing of the first paper sheet for enclosure from the printing unit based on the size information of the enclosure; and a paper output control section for controlling timing of output of the first paper sheet for enclosure from the printing unit to the inserting and sealing unit based on the information of output timing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A letter producing system comprising:
a printing unit for performing printing on at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure and a printing paper sheet for envelope and outputting the printing paper sheets subjected to printing, wherein the at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure subjected to printing is outputted before the printing paper sheet for envelope subjected to printing is outputted;
an inserting and sealing unit for making an envelope from the printing paper sheet for envelope subjected to printing at the printing unit, and inserting and sealing the at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure subjected to printing in the envelope to produce a letter;
an enclosure size information obtaining section for obtaining information of size of the printing paper sheet for enclosure;
a paper output timing information obtaining section for obtaining information of timing of output of the first printing paper sheet for enclosure from the printing unit based on the information of size of the printing paper sheet for enclosure obtained by the enclosure size information obtaining section; and
a paper output control section for controlling timing of output of the first printing paper sheet for enclosure from the printing unit to the inserting and sealing unit based on the information of timing of output obtained by the paper output timing information obtaining section; wherein
the inserting and sealing unit comprises an aligning section for receiving and temporarily storing the at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure outputted from the printing unit and aligning the position of the at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure, and
the paper output timing information obtaining section obtains, as the information of timing of output, initialization time of the aligning section based on the information of size of the printing paper sheet for enclosure.

2. The letter producing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the aligning section comprises a width direction adjusting section for adjusting the position of the at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure in the width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction thereof, and a leading edge adjusting section for adjusting the position of the leading edge of the at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure in the conveyance direction thereof, and
the paper output timing information obtaining section obtains, as the information of timing of output, longer one of initialization time of the width direction adjusting section and initialization time of the leading edge adjusting section based on the information of size of the printing paper sheet for enclosure.

3. The letter producing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the paper output timing information obtaining section comprises a table associating the information of size of the printing paper sheet for enclosure with the initialization times.

4. The letter producing system as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an envelope information obtaining section for obtaining information of size and information of type of fold of the printing paper sheet for envelope,
wherein the paper output timing information obtaining section obtains information of timing of output of the first printing paper sheet for envelope from the printing unit based on the information of size and the information of type of fold of the printing paper sheet for envelope, and
the paper output control section controls the timing of output of the first printing paper sheet for envelope from the printing unit to the inserting and sealing unit based on the information of timing of output obtained by the paper output timing information obtaining section.

5. The letter producing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
the printing unit performs printing on multiple printing paper sheets for enclosure; and
the multiple printing paper sheets for enclosure to printing are outputted before the printing paper sheet for envelope subjected to printing is outputted.

6. An inserting and sealing unit for receiving at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure subjected to printing at a printing unit, and then receiving a printing paper sheet for envelope subjected to printing at the printing unit, making an envelope from the printing paper sheet for envelope subjected to printing, and inserting and sealing the at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure subjected to printing in the envelope to produce a letter, the inserting and sealing unit comprising:
an enclosure size information obtaining section for obtaining information of size of the printing paper sheet for enclosure;
an aligning section for receiving and temporarily storing the at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure outputted from the printing unit and aligning the position of the at least one printing paper sheet for enclosure; and
a paper output timing information obtaining section for obtaining information of timing of output of the first printing paper sheet for enclosure from the printing unit based on the information of size of the printing paper sheet for enclosure and initialization time of the aligning section based on the information of size of the printing paper sheet for enclosure, and outputting to the printing unit the information of timing of output.

Assignees

• Riso Kagaku Corp

Inventors

• Aoto Masaaki

Classifications

• B43M3/04 Primary

  automatic · CPC title

• B43M5/04

  automatic · CPC title

• B43M5/047

  using pressure-sensitive adhesive · CPC title

• B31B1/88 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B31B50/88 Primary

  Printing; Embossing · CPC title