A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a rotary drive member configured to rotate by receiving transmission of driving force from a driving source, a driven rotary member arranged with a predetermined distance in a sheet conveyance direction from the rotary drive member, an endless belt member supported on the rotary drive member and the driven rotary member, and configured to be rotated by a rotation of the rotary drive member, and a guide member configured to guide a sheet conveyed by the belt member. The guide member is mounted to a shaft configured to support the rotary drive member, and the rotary drive member is supported on the shaft in a rotatable manner with respect to the shaft.

A sheet processing apparatus includes: an input section that receives a sheet; a dispensing section that dispenses the sheet; transporters that transport the sheet input through the input section, to the dispensing section; storages that store the sheet; and diverting sections that divert the sheet transported by the transporters, to the storages, wherein diversion points at which the sheet is diverted by the diverting sections are provided at positions higher than terminal ends of the transporters.

A paper sheet storage device includes a supply reel that supplies a rolled tape; a winding drum around which a banknote is wound together with the tape supplied from the supply reel; a first detection unit that detects a supply amount of the tape supplied from the supply reel; and a second detection unit that detects the winding drum of which the outer diameter becomes equal to or larger than a predetermined outer diameter when the banknote is wound around the winding drum together with the tape.

A banknote storage unit comprising: a first tape reel banknote storage device; a second tape reel banknote storage device; and a drive transmission means pivotable between engagement with said first tape reel banknote storage device and engagement with said second tape reel banknote storage device.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for print media buffering and sorting. An apparatus for performing at least one of buffering and sorting during an operation includes an enclosure, a storage section within the enclosure, an input section configured to receive at the enclosure at least a portion of a printed element, a gripper associated with the input section, the gripper configured to selectively transport the at least a portion of the printed element from the input section to the storage section and to selectively transport the at least a portion of the printed element from the storage section within the enclosure, and an output section configured to selectively transfer the at least a portion of the printed element from the enclosure.

A money handling apparatus 10 for handling money includes a storage and feeding unit 150, 270 configured to store the money and feed out the stored money, a dispensing unit 172, 260 configured to eject the money to an outside, a transport unit 170, 264 configured to transport the money fed out from the storage and feeding unit 150, 270 to the dispensing unit 172, 260, and a control unit 12 configured to perform dispensing process of the money by the dispensing unit 172, 260 by controlling at least one of the storage and feeding unit 150, 270 and the transport unit 170, 264. The control unit 12 performs the dispensing process of the money at an arbitrary timing after certain process of the money is performed.

An image forming apparatus includes a tray feeder to feed a printing medium placed on a tray of the image forming apparatus to an image former of the image forming apparatus, the tray moveable to be in a first position and a second position, a cassette feeder to feed a printing medium placed in a cassette of the image forming apparatus to the image former, a power train to transmit power generated from a driving motor, and a power switching unit to switch the power transmitted from the power train.

A sheet storing device includes: a rotary drum; at least one tape that wraps a sheet around the rotary drum; and at least one first pressing member that is shifted from the tape along an axis of the rotary drum and presses the sheet against the outer circumferential surface of the rotary drum. The first pressing member presses the sheet against the rotary drum at or near a starting point at which the tape to be wound on the rotary drum first comes into contact with the rotary drum.

A method for storing a series of flexible documents ( . . . , B(n?1), B(n), B(n+1), . . . ) in a system (100), each flexible document ( . . . , B(n?1), B(n), B(n+1), . . . ) having a front side and a rear side and the method comprising activating at least a sensor group (30), at least one external sensor unit (40) and an internal sensor unit (140) arranged at the entrance of system (100), in proximity of a storing and issuing module (10) and inside the storing and issuing module (10), respectively, for sensing each flexible document ( . . . , B(n?1), B(n), B(n+1), . . . ) of the series, while it is transported on a conveyor belt (20) into a storing and issuing module (10), and providing corresponding dimension information and position information with respect to a longitudinal symmetry axis (y-y) to a central processing unit (50) or a processor (150); B. when a flexible document B(n) is sensed by the internal sensor unit (140) inside the storing and issuing module (10), and C. if a next flexible document B(n+1) transported on conveyor belt (20) is sensed and corresponding position information for the next flexible document B(n+1) is provided to the central processing unit (50) and forwarded to processor (150) before the internal sensor unit (140) stops sensing the flexible document B(n), and also if the next flexible document B(n+1) is within a predetermined storage distance (d.sub.ST) from the storing and issuing module (10), D. based on dimension information and the last obtained position information on the flexible document B(n), dimension information and the last obtained position information on the next flexible document B(n+1) and known design parameters of the system, determining the actual minimum distance (d.sub.pred), along an axis (y.sub.MIN-y.sub.MIN) parallel to longitudinal symmetry axis (y-y), that would be left on a transport tape (170) inside the storing and issuing module (10), between the rear side of flexible document B(n) and the front side of the next flexible document B(n+1) of the series, if transport tape (170) moved at linear speed (v.sub.t(t)) according to a conventional pattern having a constant speed value (V) at regime operational conditions, E. comparing the actual minimum distance (d.sub.pred) calculated at step D with a desired minimum distance d.sub.d, and F. if the actual minimum distance (d.sub.pred) is different from the desired minimum distance dd, adjusting, by sending corresponding signals through processor (50), linear speed (v.sub.t(t)) of transport tape (170