| CPC B41J 13/12 (2013.01) [B41J 2/01 (2013.01); B41J 3/28 (2013.01); B41J 13/0009 (2013.01); B41J 13/0063 (2013.01); B41J 13/26 (2013.01)] | 26 Claims |
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1. A device for personalizing documents, wherein the device comprises:
a personalization device for applying personalization information to a document to be personalized, the document being located in an operating region of the personalization device, the personalization information being associated with the document to be personalized;
a conveying device which comprises at least two movable document carrier devices, each of which is configured:
to receive the document to be personalized at a transfer position of the device that is the same for each of the at least two movable document carrier devices;
to move the document received, into the operating region of the personalization device for the purpose of being personalized; and
to move the document received, after personalization, back to the transfer position and to discharge it there;
wherein the conveying device, during operation, conveys each of the at least two movable document carrier devices along a respective associated path curve in the shape of a closed loop, wherein a conveying movement of each of the at least two movable document carrier devices along the respective associated path curve is carried out in a temporally staggered manner with respect to the respective conveying movement of others of the at least two movable document carrier devices in the same direction in such a way that the at least two movable document carrier devices do not collide with each other during their respective conveying movements along the respective associated path curve,
wherein the device for personalizing documents further comprises:
a control device for controlling the device; and
a sensor device which is configured to detect, at one or more particular points along the respective associated path curves, one or more current movement parameters of the at least two movable document carrier devices and to communicate the one or more current movement parameters to the control device;
wherein the control device is configured to control the device as a function of the one or more current movement parameters,
wherein the conveying device is arranged to vary the respective associated path curve of at least one of the at least two movable document carrier devices as a function of a corresponding control, by the control device, on a basis of the one or more current movement parameters, and
wherein each respective associated path curve is defined by a movement path of finite length of one of the at least two movable document carrier devices, such that varying of the respective associated path curve changes a movement length or a movement curvature along the movement path of the at least one of the at least two movable document carrier devices.
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