Paper processing apparatus and header card used therefor

• US 20070205256A1
• Filed: 08/30/2006
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Uno, Teruhiko, Higashi, Ryuuji, Shinfuku, Takahito
• Application Number:
  US11/512,106
• Publication Number:
  US 20070205256A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2220/01 indicating an entity as a function of which control, adjustment or change is performed, i.e. input
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2220/02 indicating an entity which is controlled, adjusted or changed by a control process, i.e. output
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2511/411 of colour
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2513/42 Route, path
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/18267 wherein the batches are separated by separator elements in the pile
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/1912 Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 39/10 Associating articles from a single source, to form, e.g. a writing-pad laminating B32B37/00, B32B38/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/50 Sorting or counting valuable papers

Abstract

In a paper processing apparatus including a loading unit, pickup mechanism, color detection unit, pickup control unit, discrimination unit, collecting unit, and rejecting unit, partition cards having colored areas and medium are loaded into the loading unit.

Claims

1. A paper processing apparatus comprising:

a loading unit loading one or a plurality of batches of medium in a stacked state, each batch including papers stacked for each operation unit and a partition card which is stacked on the papers and includes a card-like base material having two major surfaces and a colored area for card identification provided on at least one major surface of the card-like base material to identify the card;

a pickup mechanism picking up the medium one by one from the loading unit;

a color detection unit detecting a color of the target medium placed at a front end of the loading unit in a pickup direction;

a pickup control unit which controls pickup operation on the basis of detection information from the color detection unit;

a discrimination unit detecting and discriminate a characteristic of the target medium;

a collecting unit collecting the papers on the basis of a discrimination result obtained by the discrimination unit; and

a rejecting unit collecting the paper and the partition card, which are not collected by the collecting unit, on the basis of a discrimination result obtained by the discrimination unit.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the colored area has a color having absorption in light range selected from the visible light, the ultraviolet, near infrared, and infrared ranges.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the partition card is a header card stacked on a front end of the stacked papers in a pickup direction and including a card-like base material having the two major surfaces, a barcode area provided in a central portion of at least one major surface and having recorded identification information of the paper, and a colored area provided around the barcode area to identify a type of card.

4. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a trailer card including a card-like base material having two major surfaces and a colored area is further provided on at least one major surface to identify a type of card is stacked as the partition card on a rear end of the stacked papers in the pickup direction.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the colored area includes a first colored area having a first color and a second colored area having a second color, and the color detection unit comprises a first color detection unit to detect the first color and a second color detection unit to detect the second color.

6. A header card placed as a partition card at a front end of an operation unit of stacked papers when papers are loaded into a paper processing apparatus for detecting, discriminating, and stacking the papers, comprising

a card-like base material having two major surfaces, a barcode area provided in a central portion of one major surface and having recorded identification information of a paper, and a colored area provided around the barcode area to identify a type of card.

7. A card according to claim 6, wherein the colored area has a color having absorption in light range selected from the visible light, the ultraviolet, near infrared, and infrared ranges.

8. A card according to claim 6, wherein the colored area includes a first colored area having a first color and a second colored area having a second color.