Apparatus for sensing sheets

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5007628
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07358202

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Apparatus for sensing the passage of sheets (1) through a nip formed by rollers (5 and 6), includes a core (14), moving with the shaft of one of the rollers, and a flat coil (15) connected to an oscillator circuit for sensing the deflection of one roller relative to the other. The oscillator circuit (18) provides a train of signals the frequency of which varies with the amount of the relative deflection of the rollers, and a counter (19) counts the signals from the oscillator in a fixed time interval. A store (22) stores counts representing the relative deflections of the rollers in a cycle of movement of the rollers when no sheet is present. The difference between a subsequent count and a stored count for a corresponding position in the cycle of rotation of the rollers is compared with a predetermined threshold, to establish the presence or absence of a sheet between the rollers.

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DE LA RUE SYSTEMS LIMITED A BRITISH COMPANYDE LA RUE HOUSE 3/5 BURLINGTON GARDENS LONDON W1A 1DL

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Skinner, John A Hampshire, GB2 3 215

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