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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170464 | Image forming apparatus capable of preventing mismatching of punched hole position and binding direction An image forming apparatus to form an image on a sheet media, including: a memory section which memorizes a position of holes previously punched on the sheet media; an operation section via which the sheet media to be used for image formation, a double-surface print... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160488 | Image formation processing system applying adhesive to received sheets in a bundle form An image formation processing system is provided with an image formation portion, an adhesive applying portion which receives a plurality of sheets from the image formation portion, gathers the received sheets in the shape of a bundle to form a sheet bundle, and app... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155576 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The invention is to provide a miniaturized sheet processing apparatus in that a conveying length a conveying distance need not be increased even though the number of sheets per bundle increases. A glue applying bookbinder that partially glues sheets and performs a p... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8139999 | Adhesive applicator, and bookbinding and image-forming apparatuses equipped with the applicator A glue container receiving hot-melt adhesive, an applicator roll, an apparatus casing, and disposed therein, a cooling unit and its control unit, for cooling a post-cover-sheet-processed sheaf, are provided. The control unit is configured to halt the cooling unit wh... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8086165 | Bookbinding system and bookbinding apparatus A bookbinding system includes an image forming apparatus and a bookbinding apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus. The bookbinding system includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording sheet; a loading unit to load, as a bookblock stack, ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8036591 | Bookbinding apparatus and bookbinding system A bookbinding apparatus which forms a booklet by coating adhesive onto a spine of a sheet bundle, the bookbinding apparatus comprising: an adhesive tank which stores adhesive; a supplying section which supplies solid adhesive to the adhesive tank; a melting section ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8019270 | Bookbinding apparatus and bookbinding system A binding apparatus which can meet user requests and adapt to usage conditions by a user. An adhesive is heated and melted, and then applied to a sheet bundle to bind the sheet bundle. One of the following modes is selected: a first adhesive temperature adjusting mo... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005417 | Bookbinding system with an adhesive replenishing rate controller A bookbinding system comprising: an image forming apparatus; and a bookbinding apparatus; wherein both the image forming apparatus and the bookbinding apparatus include a communication section respectively, for transmitting information from the image forming apparat... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7970339 | Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus A bookbinding apparatus, having a sheet bundle storing device to store a sheet bundle, a grasping device to grasp the sheet bundle stored in the sheet bundle storing device, a square spine forming device to form a square spine, wherein a pair of forming members bend... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970340 | Adhesive applicator, and bookbinding apparatus and image-forming system equipped with the applicator In replenishing a glue container with hot-melt glue, to enable stable supply of the glue in solid form without it clogging the resupply path from the hopper, provided are: a sheet retaining unit for retaining a sheaf in a glue application position; a glue applier in... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970338 | Bookbinding device, bookbinding method, and printing device A CPU of a bookbinding system sets one of a right-opening bookbinding mode for feeding a cover sheet on which a cover is laid out at the left of a spine portion thereof to create a right-opening book, and a left-opening bookbinding mode for feeding a cover sheet on ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962088 | Bookmaking apparatus and image forming system using the same In a bookmaking apparatus, a sheet bundle applied with adhesive in the apparatus when conveyance trouble, i.e., a cover sheet paper jam, occurs, is not left in the apparatus. Furthermore, the apparatus does not leave a cover sheet in the apparatus to be soiled if ad... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949293 | Image forming system An image forming system includes image forming device and bookbinding device. Image forming device has operation unit for selecting sheet and cover and control unit for control of warning. Bookbinding device stacks plural sheets, forms a bundle of sheets, and binds ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941089 | Image forming system and clear coating apparatus A image forming system that can prevent a toner from coming off while reducing the amount of consumption of a clear toner in binding sheets into a book. An image forming apparatus 100 forms an image on a sheet. A clear coating apparatus 200 forms a cle... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7920820 | Bookbinding apparatus and image forming system comprising the same A bookbinding apparatus includes a collecting device, a bookbinding path, a bundle conveying device for transferring the sheet bundle to a paste applying position and then to a cover binding position, a paste applying device for applying an adhesive to a spine part ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7869757 | Bookbinding apparatus and bookbinding system A bookbinding apparatus comprising: a supplier which supplies solid adhesive to an adhesive tank; a melting section which melts the solid adhesive supplied to the adhesive tank; a coating member which coats the adhesive melted in the adhesive tank to an end face of ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869756 | Bookbinding apparatus and image forming system provided therewith A bookbinding apparatus including an adhesive coating section which coats an adhesive onto a spine of a sheet bundle that a plurality of sheets are bundled, by relatively moving the adhesive coating section and the sheet bundle, adheres a cover sheet onto the spine ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7840174 | Bookmaking apparatus and image forming system using the same A bookmaking apparatus executes sheet bundle stacking and image forming operations while melting adhesive at start up. A temperature control device controls a heating device to heat an adhesive in the container to a predetermined melting temperature when the apparat... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7783245 | Book-binding apparatus and image forming system A book-binding apparatus having: a reception vessel to receive glue in liquid form; application section to apply the glue in the reception vessel to a sheet; a hopper to receive a raw material of the glue for refill; a refilling section to refill the raw material of... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7747211 | Booklet loading apparatus, post-treatment apparatus, and image forming system A booklet loading apparatus has a carry-out unit that sequentially carries out plural booklets to a predetermined carry-out position; a transfer unit that sequentially arranges the booklets carried out from the carry-out unit while the booklets overlap one another, ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747212 | Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method A sheet processing apparatus of the invention includes a post-processing unit that applies post-processing to sheets conveyed from an image forming apparatus, a vertical aligning unit that conveys the sheets to the post-processing unit and brings an edge of the shee... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738830 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system and computer program of the same for forming cover sheet There is described an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to form a lining cover sheet image at an appropriate position of the lining cover sheet, irrespective of change of the lining cover sheet width. The apparatus includes a lining cover-sheet width ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7603074 | Image forming system, image forming device and bookbinding device An image forming system forms an image on body sheets and wraps, in a square shape, a stack of the body sheets having the image formed thereon with a cover to bind a book. The image forming system includes a relative-position related information input section for in... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7590380 | Bookbinding apparatus and bookbinding method When printing is interrupted, the selection between the use of a sheet bundle stacked on an accumulating tray and no use thereof is appropriately made. A bookbinding system includes a bookbinding apparatus having the accumulating tray for stacking a plurality of pri... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7454163 | Bookbinding system There is provided a bookbinding system which can carry out a process from image formation to glued bookbinding in-line. The bookbinding system comprises a book content data input section 101 to which book content data regarding a content of a book is entered,... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7440133 | Mode switching in a color printer A tandem-type color image forming apparatus forms an image in a monochrome mode or in a full color mode. The apparatus has a controller which delays an image forming operation for a predetermined period of time when a color mode is switched from the monochrome mode ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7426367 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet processing apparatus comprises that a plurality of sheet processing potions that perform a sheet process on a sheet; and a plurality of conveying paths which transport the sheet to connect to the plurality of sheet processing potions, respectively, wherein w... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424237 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus capable of recording images of a double sided original on both sides of a recording sheet, the image forming apparatus having, an image reader for reading images of the double sided original, a first setting section for setting a binding d... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7412201 | Post-processing trimming apparatus and image-forming apparatus A post-processing apparatus which has a trimming apparatus for trimming an edge of sheets to make booklets, wherein the trimming apparatus has an inserting means for insertion of sheets into trimming process section of the trimming apparatus, an edge sustaining memb... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7346309 | Bookbinding system and image forming system The invention provides an image forming system which includes an image forming device and a post-processor, and complete warming-up of the image forming device in a short time with a limited power supply. The invention further provides an image forming system which ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341248 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus This invention provides a sheet processing apparatus for passing sheets between an upper jaw and a lower jaw of a binder fixed on an intermediate stacking portion and for binding the ends of the sheets, wherein binding processing is possible for a large number of sh... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336921 | Sheet finisher with sheet folding capability and image forming system using the same A sheet folding device for folding a sheet or a sheet stack conveyed thereto of the present invention includes a path along which the sheet or the sheet stack to be folded is conveyed. A fold plate is movable in a direction perpendicular to the above path for formin... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336922 | Sheet post-process apparatus A sheet post-process apparatus includes a waiting tray and a processing tray. The waiting tray is provided in the middle of a conveying path and makes standby sheets in the case where a post-process is required. The processing tray has a function which causes the sh... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328894 | Sheet finishing apparatus A sheet finishing apparatus of the present invention has a gate for taking in sheets of paper ejected from an image forming apparatus through a taking-in port and switching to either of a conveying path for post processing or a conveying path for non-post processing... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7300046 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet processing apparatus including a first sheet stacking portion for stacking sheets thereon, a second sheet stacking portion provided downstream of the first sheet stacking portion with respect to a sheet conveying direction, a sheet holding device for holding... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296685 | Vibrating screen for screening crushed stone and gravel A vibrating screen for conducting material in a longitudinal direction while screening the material comprises a screening deck, exchangeable modular screening media, and an adapter arrangement for mounting the screening media on the deck. The screening deck includes... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295803 | Sheet post-process apparatus A waiting tray is provided in a sheet-conveying path and holds sheets if the sheets need to be post-processed. A processing tray receives sheets conveyed from the waiting tray. It may receive sheets conveyed through the sheet-conveying path and coming not via the wa... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292367 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus having: image forming means for visualizing image data read out by image reading means and forming it onto transfer materials; post-processing means for executing a post-process including a stapling process, a folding process, and/or a sor... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285084 | Folded back portion flattening device, sheet processor, and image forming apparatus A folded back portion flattening device includes a gripper and a presser. The gripper grips a sheet bundle formed into a booklet with the folded back portion protruding from the gripper. The presser presses the folded back portion of the sheet bundle gripped by the ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281707 | Aftertreatment apparatus, and controlling method, program and storage medium therefor Sheet thickness data obtained from the output of a sheet thickness detecting sensor are calculated to thereby calculate a sheet bundle thickness. When the sheet bundle thickness reaches a predetermined value, other aftertreatment differing from a set aftertreatment ... | 10/16/2007 |
