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Patent US8152154 - Tab sheet insertion apparatus - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsAn image forming apparatus has a tab sheet supply unit and a control unit. The tab sheet supply unit supplies tab sheets of an identical type from an identical sheet supply tray as a chapter tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a first level of classification of a document to be printed, as well...http://www.google.com/patents/US8152154?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8152154 - Tab sheet insertion apparatusAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS8152154 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 13/183,951Publication dateApr 10, 2012Filing dateJul 15, 2011Priority dateFeb 21, 2007Fee statusPaidAlso published asUS8002258, US20080197556, US20100019436, US20110266740Publication number13183951, 183951, US 8152154 B2, US 8152154B2, US-B2-8152154, US8152154 B2, US8152154B2InventorsMichihiro Nakagawa, Tamotsu Sakuraba, Toshimi Shinchi, Yukihiko IchikawaOriginal AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (13), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (2), Classifications (11), Legal Events (1) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetTab sheet insertion apparatus
US 8152154 B2Abstract
1. A tab sheet insertion apparatus comprising:
a tab sheet supply unit that supplies tab sheets of an identical type from an identical sheet supply tray as a major division tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a first level of classification of a document, as well as a minor division tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a second level that is a finer level of classification than the first level of classification;
a control unit that causes the tab sheet contained in said sheet supply tray to be discharged as an unnecessary tab sheet, if the tab position of the tab sheet to be supplied next from the sheet supply tray does not match with the tab position of the tab sheet to be inserted next in inserting said major division tab sheet and said minor tab sheet while sequentially transporting a plurality of sheets that constitute said document, until both of the tab positions match; and
an acquiring unit which acquires a first tab position range indicating a range of tab positions of tab sheets to be used as said major division tab sheets from a set of tab sheets and a second tab position range indicating a range of tab positions of tab sheets to be used as said minor division tab sheets from a set of tab sheets, the second tab position range being different from the first tab position range; wherein,
2. The tab sheet insertion apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:
3. The tab sheet insertion apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:
4. The tab sheet insertion apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:
5. The tab sheet insertion apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:
To solve at least one of the abovementioned problems, an image forming apparatus reflecting one aspect of the present invention comprises a tab sheet supply unit that supplies tab sheets of an identical type from an identical sheet supply tray as a major division tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a first level of classification of a document to be printed, as well as a minor division tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a second level that is a finer level of classification than the first level of classification; and a control unit that causes the tab sheet contained in said sheet supply tray to be discharged as an unnecessary tab sheet, if the tab position of the tab sheet to be supplied next from the sheet supply tray does not match with the tab position of the tab sheet to be inserted next during the printing of said document, until both of the tab positions match.
The printing system 4 consists of a printer controller 2 and a printer 3 as an image forming apparatus and also as a tab sheet insertion apparatus, which are locally connected with each other. This local connection can be accomplished by means of various local connection interfaces, such as serial interfaces, e.g. , USB and IEEE 1394, parallel interfaces, e.g., SCSI and IEEE 1284, wireless communication interfaces, e.g., Bluetooth®, IEEE 802.11, HomeRF®, IrDA®, etc. However, the printer controller 2 and the printer 3 can be connected via the network 5.
The first tab sheet setting part 130 includes a first object page position setting part 131 that the user can use for designating an object page position in the setting process, and the second sheet setting part 140 includes a second object page position setting part 141 that the user can use for designating an object page position in the setting process. Here the first object page position setting part 131 selectably displays the insertion page position set up in the first page position setting part 111. For example, in case of FIG. 8, the first object page position setting part 131 displays two options of page 1 or 5. The second object page position setting part 141 selectably displays the insertion page position set up in the second page position setting part 121. For example, in case of FIG. 8, the second object page position setting part 141 displays five options of page 1, 3, 4, 7, or 9.
On the other hand, if there is a tab sheet insertion request (S402: Yes), the tab flag is set to “1” (S403). At this point, the tab flag is set to “1” in case of a chapter tab sheet, and “0” in case of a section tab sheet. Also, the tab position of the top tab sheet in the sheet supply tray (“current tab position”) is grasped. A case when the leading tab position (e.g., ⅕ of the five-tab), which is the default value, is grasped as the “current tab position” will be described here. Also, the same value as the “current tab position” is set for the “chapter tab position”) here. Incidentally, the “current tab position” and the “chapter tab position” are stored in the memory unit such as the RAM 33 of the printer 3.
If it is not a page assigned for tab sheet insertion (5405: No), normal printing, i.e., printing of one page portion is executed (S408), and the program advances to step S407.
First, when it is judged to be a page assigned for tab sheet insertion in 5405, a judgment is made whether the current tab sheet is a chapter tab sheet or a section tab sheet (S501).
In step S103 in FIG. 7, the user's specification concerning the tab sheet is received using the tab sheet setting screen 100 a. As shown in FIG. 15, the front half tab positions are allocated for the first tab position range considering the use for chapter tabs. The rear half tab positions are allocated for the second tab position range considering the use for section tabs. Incase of FIG. 15, the first tab position range is allocated to ⅕-⅖, and the second tab position range to ⅗- 5/5
As the printing process is initiated, the job header contained in the header information is first analyzed in step 5401 of FIG. 11.
Moreover, in the page header 320 of FIG. 16, “P1,” “P2,” . . . are the common page numbers of the document to be printed. “Tray 1” is the sheet supply tray for the tab sheets to be inserted at those page positions. “JobTray” indicates that there is no tab sheet to be inserted at the particular page position there, and the sheet to be used for printing the page is supplied from the sheet supply tray specified in the printing job.
Consequently, in accordance with the second embodiment as in the first embodiment, even when the same type of tab sheets are supplied from the same sheet supply tray, the user can differentiate a chapter tab sheet from a sect ion tab sheet in a finished printed matter by just looking at them, so that it is possible to find a desired page of the printed matter easily and quickly based on the tab sheets.
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