US 12,129,136 B2
Sheet input module having interlocking sheet-stopper structure and printing device using such sheet input module
Ku Ming Chen, Zhubei (TW); Ming-Shao Tang, Hukou Township, Hsinchu County (TW); and Wei-Zuo Lin, Beidou Township, Changhua County (TW)
Assigned to AVISION INC., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by AVISION INC., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Dec. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/074,390.
Claims priority of application No. 111101437 (TW), filed on Jan. 13, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0219774 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 1/18 (2006.01); B65H 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 1/18 (2013.01) [B65H 3/06 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet input module, comprising:
a tray;
a support plate pivotally disposed on the tray to form a first included angle with the tray, wherein the support plate supports multiple sheets; and
a sheet-stopper structure being pivotally disposed on the tray and providing a function of stopping the sheets from entering a sheet transporting passage, wherein:
in an interlocking mode, the support plate supporting the sheets drives the sheet-stopper structure according to a change of the first included angle and rotated relatively to the tray to adjust a second included angle between a stopping surface of the sheet-stopper structure and the sheets.