Patent ID: 11873186
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A document conveyance device comprising:
a supply tray on which a document is placed;
a discharge tray disposed below the supply tray;
a conveyance part which feeds the document on the supply tray to a document conveyance path one by one and conveys the document along the document conveyance path;
a discharge part which discharges the document conveyed by the conveyance part to the discharge tray; and
a lifting and lowering part which lifts and lowers the supply tray and the discharge part, wherein
the lifting and lowering part lifts the supply tray and the discharge part according to a feeding of the document,
when the feeding of the document to the document conveyance path is completed and then the supply tray is lifted, in a large number of documents discharge state where a height of the documents stacked on the discharge tray is more than a specified value, the lifting and lowering part positions the supply tray at a taking out position depart upward from an uppermost document of the documents stacked on the discharge tray by a predetermined space,
when the feeding of the document to the document conveyance path is completed and then the supply tray is lifted, in a small number of documents discharge state where the height of the documents stacked on the discharge tray is less than the specified value, the lifting and lowering part positions the supply tray at a taking out position depart upward from the specified value by the predetermined space.