JP2808120B2 - Facsimile paper ejection device and image recording device - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile discharge device having a plurality of discharge trays.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in a paper discharge mechanism and a paper discharge control method of a facsimile, only one paper discharge tray is used, and received documents and copy documents are stacked from bottom to top in a paper discharge order. In the state where the same facsimile is used, the received document has been discharged onto the discharge tray without distinction by copy or department.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, since all the sheets are ejected on the same tray, a.If there is an incoming call while using the facsimile copy function, the received paper may be interrupted between the copy sheets, or vice versa. When copying is instructed during reception, there are many cases where the copied paper interrupts the received paper. For this reason, it is necessary for humans to sort the paper stacked on the paper output tray, and there has been a problem that important materials are lost, and there are frequent cases in which the paper is mistakenly sent to another department.

b. Also, for each paper discharge purpose, copy paper is not interrupted in the above-mentioned received paper so that paper is stacked on the tray in units of received documents (for each incoming call) or in units of copied documents (for each copy operation). Even if the system that exclusively controls the paper output mechanism is used, the same facsimile can be sent to multiple departments simply by being stacked on the same paper output tray on a first-come, first-served basis (collection of paper for each destination or copy operation). In the case of sharing, there is a problem that documents must be sorted manually for each department.

c. If one facsimile is used by multiple departments and the same document is transmitted from another facsimile to multiple departments that use this facsimile, the line is used until all transmissions of the department are completed. Is used, so that there is a problem that the use of the line is wasted.

The present invention has been made to solve these problems.

[Means for solving the problem]

According to the present invention, in order to solve these problems, the facsimile discharge device is configured as in the following (1) and the image recording device is configured as in the following (2).

(1) a plurality of discharge trays, a discharge tray determining means for determining a specific discharge tray from the plurality of discharge trays based on copy information on the receiving side or information sent from the transmitting side; A facsimile discharge device including a discharge unit that selects the specific discharge tray according to an output of the discharge tray determination unit and discharges the paper, wherein the discharge tray determination unit includes:
Copy information on the receiving side, a department ID on the receiving side set in a private parameter in a document start command on a document exchange protocol, which is information sent from the transmitting side, and a department ID set in advance—discharge A facsimile paper discharge device for determining a specific paper discharge tray based on a tray table.

(2) In an image recording apparatus for recording an image received from a transmitting side on a sheet, a plurality of loading units for loading the recorded sheet, a receiving unit for receiving a code indicating a distribution destination of the recorded sheet, If the code received by the receiving means is a code associated with multiple distribution destinations,
First control means for recording the number of copies corresponding to the number of distribution destinations based on a first table showing the correspondence between the code and the plurality of distribution destinations, If the code is mapped earlier,
The control unit controls the loading unit that discharges the recorded sheet based on the first table and the second table that indicates the correspondence between the distribution destination and the loading unit, and the code received by the receiving unit corresponds to one distribution destination. An image recording apparatus comprising: a second control unit that controls a stacking unit that discharges a recorded sheet based on the second table when the code is an attached code.

[Action]

According to the above configurations (1) and (2), an effect is obtained that the copied document and the received document are separately stored, and the received document is stored in a specific paper output tray by being distinguished according to the information on the transmission side. .

〔Example〕

 Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to examples.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a "facsimile" which is a first embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, 1-1 is a facsimile printer unit,
1-2 is a facsimile controller for performing a paper discharge control and other facsimile functions built in the printer unit, 1-3 is a movable paper discharge tray, 1-4 is a paper discharge drive unit,
Reference numeral 1-5 denotes a dischargeable position detection sensor that detects that printed paper has moved to a discharge request position and triggers a discharge request notification, and reference numeral 1-6 denotes a discharge roller (discharge) for discharging. mouth),
1-7 is a paper ejection completion detection sensor for detecting that the paper ejection is completed, 1-8 recognizes the moving position of the movable paper ejection tray,
A discharge tray movement completion detection sensor that detects that the requested tray has moved to the paper discharge port and triggers a discharge tray movement completion notification. 1-9 to 1-12 are discharge trays 1 to N (a plurality of discharge trays 1 to N). 1-13 is a CPU, 1-14 is a RO with a built-in discharge control program and facsimile control program.
M and 1-15 are a RAM for storing the tray use purpose table and data shown in FIG. 3A, 1-16 is a scanner controller, and 1-17 is a discharge tray for controlling a movable discharge tray. Controller, 1-18 are sensors 1-5, 1-7, 1-8
Controller that receives external interrupts, such as a CPU, paper ejection tray controller 1-17, scanner controller 1-16, CCU 1-19, and I / O controller 1-21,
A CCU (Communication Control Unit), 1-20 is a scanner, and 1-21 is an I / O controller.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the outline of the sheet discharge control of the first embodiment.

FIGS. 3A and 3B are views showing a tray use purpose table and a group section management table, which are section identifier-discharge tray tables. The tray use purpose table (a) contains a document start command (CDS: Command Document Star) on the document exchange protocol when an incoming call arrives.
12 is a table for assigning a paper discharge tray by a department identifier provided in a private parameter in t). The “use purpose code” is a code for identifying whether each tray is unused / for copying / assigned a department identifier / not assigned a department identifier, or does not specify a department identifier. “Department name” is the name of the department assigned to the tray. 3-2, when the tray No. 2 is allocated for the “first development room” and the transmitting side (transmitting side) specifies and transmits the department identifier “1002” of the receiving side (receiving side), the tray No. 2 is transmitted. Two
(1-10 in FIG. 1) means that the document is discharged and stored.

The group section management table (b) groups the trays (assigned to each section) of the facsimile of the present embodiment, and stores a section identifier (grouping section) that is not used as an ID (Identity) in the tray use purpose table. This is a table for assigning an identifier. “Department identifier” is a key for defining a set of department identifiers grouped by the grouping department identifier. For example, in 3-11, the grouping department identifier "1010" indicates "development department", and trays No. 2 to 4 corresponding to "first development room" to "third development room" are grouped. It represents that. Therefore, when the sender sends document A by designating the department identifier “1010” of the receiver (this facsimile),
This means that the document A is printed collectively and is discharged and stored in each of the trays Nos. 2 to 4.

The operation of the facsimile of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 1 and the flowchart of FIG. In this example, as the information sent from the transmission side, the department ID of the reception side, for example, "1002" set in the private parameter in the document start command on the document protocol is used.

In response to a user's copy instruction, the l-th printed sheet reaches the sheet dischargeable position detection sensor 1-5 of the sheet discharge drive section 1-4, and is transmitted to the interrupt controller 1-18 to notify the sheet discharge request 2-1. Is passed and the notification is passed from the notification wait 2-11, it is checked whether the paper discharge mechanism is empty, and it is determined that the paper discharge mechanism is empty. Therefore, the paper discharge mechanism discharges the l-th sheet. Is made in use declaration 2-4.

Next, it is determined whether or not the l-th paper has been copied. 2-5. The tray of the copy tray is used by using the copy tray as a key from the tray use purpose table of FIG. Since No. was found to be 1, a parameter was set in the discharge tray controller 1-17 so as to move the discharge tray 1-9 to the position of the discharge roller 1-6, and 2-6. It issues a tray move request to the controller 2-10 and waits in a notification wait state 2-11.

When the movable discharge tray 1-3 comes to a predetermined position, the discharge tray movement completion detection sensor 1-8 detects the I / O controller 1-21.
And completion notification 2 via the interrupt controller 1-18
When an interrupt that triggers -15 is generated, the I / O controller 1-21 exits from the notification waiting state 2-11 and requests the I / O controller 1-21 to execute the paper discharge to the paper discharge drive 1-6. 1
6. At this time, the received data from CCU 1-19 is stored in RAM1-1 for one page.
5 and it is printed on the (l + 1) th paper,
When the sheet reaches the sheet dischargeable position detection sensor 1-5, a sheet discharge request notification request is generated, and it is checked whether or not the sheet discharge mechanism is usable 2-2. Since it is declared that the paper is being discharged, the paper
It is registered in the Queue 2-3, and is in the state of the notification waiting 2-11 again. Thereafter, when the l-th sheet is discharged to the tray No. 1 (1-9), a discharge completion notification is issued by a trigger of the discharge completion notification sensor 1-7, and the sheet is discharged from the notification wait 2-11, the sheet is discharged. It is checked whether there is a request waiting Queue and 2-13, (l
Since the (+1) -th sheet is waiting for a sheet-discharging request, the process shifts to the (l + 1) -th sheet discharging process at the same time as 2-14 when the sheet-discharging mechanism is not used. Since it is known that the (l + 1) -th paper is a received document, the tray use purpose table shown in FIG. Was found to be No. 2 and the tray No. 2
A parameter for moving (1-10) to the paper discharge port 1-6 is set 2-8, a move request is issued to the paper discharge tray controller 1-17 2-10, and a notification waiting state 2-11 is entered. . Then, like the l-th paper, the l + 1-th paper is in tray No. 2.
Is discharged to the discharge tray 1-10.

In this manner, the copy document specified by the user of the facsimile is discharged to a specific discharge tray, and the received document is discharged to a specific discharge tray for each receiving department specified by the transmitting side.

In the above embodiment, the receiver department identifier set in the private parameter in the document start command on the document exchange protocol is used as the information sent from the sender, and a specific output tray corresponding to the identifier is used. Documents are stored and delivered to the ISDN (Integrated S
The facsimile connected to the ervices digital network) uses the ISDN subaddress as information sent from the transmitting side, and discharges and stores the document in a specific output tray corresponding to the address. The same operation and effect as the embodiment can be obtained.

In addition, a plurality of departments on the receiving side are designated by the grouping department identifiers shown in FIG. 3 (b), the same document is collectively received, printed, and discharged to a specific paper output tray corresponding to each department. You may. The same is true for ISDN subaddresses. In this case, since reception and printing are not repeated for each section, waste of line use can be eliminated.

Next, an example in which a specific paper discharge tray is automatically selected for each transmission source and paper is discharged will be described as a second embodiment.

In this embodiment, the terminal abbreviation of the transmission source is used as information sent from the transmission side regardless of the instruction of the transmission side, and the document for each transmission source is output to a specific output tray corresponding to the terminal abbreviation. Paper is stored.

In this embodiment, the same operation as in FIG. 2 is performed with the same configuration as in FIG. In this embodiment, a terminal abbreviation on the transmitting side is used as a key instead of the department identifier shown in FIG.

For example, when the terminal abbreviation is “A”, as shown in FIG. 4, the No. 2 discharge tray is determined by the tray use purpose table, which is the terminal abbreviation-discharge tray table. In step 2-8, the discharge tray No. 2 is set, and the document of the transmission source "A" is discharged to the discharge tray No. 2 (see FIG. 1-10). The copy document specified by the receiving user is discharged to the No. 1 discharge tray.

The procedure for registering the source terminal abbreviation and the specific tray for discharging the source document in the table shown in FIG. 4 is as shown in FIG.

That is, in order from tray count (Tray Cnt) 1, 5-
Use 3 to input the purpose code "0", "1", "2" shown in FIG. 4, set the table in 5-4, enter the abbreviation in 5-6, and enter the table in 5-7. Set to. Hereinafter, this operation is repeated up to the tray count N.

According to the present embodiment, even if the transmitting side does not instruct the receiving side department, the receiving side outputs the received document to a specific paper output tray for each source, and the received document is received by another transmitting source. Or, there is no inconvenience mixed with the copy document. In addition, since the receiving department often corresponds to the transmission source, erroneous distribution of the received document to the receiving department is reduced, and sorting to each department is simplified.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects (a), (b), and (c) can be obtained.

(A) Since the copy document and the received document specified by the user are discharged and stored in separate specific discharge trays, erroneous distribution and loss due to the mixture of documents can be prevented, and the document sorting operation can be omitted.

(B) In accordance with an instruction from the transmitting side, the received document is discharged and stored in a specific discharge tray separately for each department or the like on the receiving side, so that erroneous distribution and loss of the document can be prevented.

(C) When there is an image to be distributed to a plurality of distribution destinations, there is no need to repeat the image transmission from the transmission side a plurality of times, and the transmission side only has to transmit the code corresponding to the plurality of distribution destinations. The operation can be simplified, and the sheets recorded on the stacking means corresponding to each distribution destination are discharged, so that the distribution can be facilitated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the first embodiment, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the sheet ejection control of the embodiment, and FIGS. 3 (a) and 3 (b) are diagrams showing a sheet-related table of the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a view showing a discharge-related table according to the second embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a flow chart of discharge tray registration according to the second embodiment. 1-2: facsimile controller 1-3: movable discharge tray 1-4: discharge drive unit 1-9 to 1-12: discharge tray

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] A plurality of discharge trays; and a discharge tray determining means for determining a specific discharge tray from the plurality of discharge trays based on copy information on a receiving side or information sent from a transmitting side. A facsimile discharge device comprising: a discharge unit that selects the specific discharge tray in accordance with an output of the discharge tray determination unit and discharges the paper. Copy information on the receiving side, the department ID on the receiving side set in the private parameter in the document start command on the document exchange protocol, which is information sent from the transmitting side, and the department ID preset on the document-output tray. A facsimile paper discharge device wherein a specific paper discharge tray is determined by a table. 2. An image recording apparatus for recording an image received from a transmission side on a sheet, comprising: a plurality of loading means for loading a recorded sheet; and a receiving means for receiving a code indicating a distribution destination of the recorded sheet. When the code received by the receiving means is a code associated with a plurality of distribution destinations, the number of copies corresponding to the number of distribution destinations is determined based on a first table indicating the correspondence between the code and the plurality of distribution destinations. A first control unit for performing the recording of the first table, and when the code received by the receiving unit is a code associated with a plurality of distribution destinations, the first table and the correspondence relationship between the distribution destination and the loading unit are indicated. Controlling the stacking means for discharging the recorded sheet based on the second table, and when the code received by the receiving means is a code associated with one distribution destination, And a second control means for controlling a stacking means for discharging the recorded sheets based on the second table.