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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177215 | Post-processing apparatus The present invention provides a post-processing apparatus that can handle recording sheets set to be stapled and recording sheets not set to be stapled in a single job and reliably prevent post-processed recording sheets from falling off a tray. The post-processing... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8104758 | Sheet finisher and image forming system provided therewith A sheet finisher includes: a stacking section having a stacking surface arranged to be tilted, and a stopper located below the stacking surface; a sheet finishing section which post-processes for a sheet bundle that hits the stopper and is stacked on the stacking se... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8087654 | Post-processing device A post-processing device include a conveyed medium stacking portion, a medium bundle stapling member, a medium bundle stacking portion and a medium bundle stacking control unit. A plurality of recording mediums, on which images are recorded, are conveyed and stacked... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087655 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus with movable receiving member A saddle stitching portion which can bind the center portion in the conveying direction of a sheet bundle by a stapler and fold it by a pair of folding rollers and a pushout member, includes an end stopper which receives the downstream end of a sheet conveyed by a f... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8047523 | Sheet loading apparatus, sheet post-processing apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet loading apparatus has an ejecting member to eject a sheet; a loading member to load the sheet ejected by the ejecting member; and a movable member capable of moving in a state keeping contact with ejecting member side ends of the sheets loaded on the loading... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8047524 | Openable sheet processing apparatus Provided herein is a sheet processing apparatus including a processing apparatus and a saddle unit. The saddle unit moves from a position inside the processing apparatus, along a direction orthogonal to a sheet transport direction, to a position outside the sheet pr... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8038138 | Holding unit having delayed conveyance time A finisher includes: a holding unit; a stapling unit; a discharge unit; and a control unit. The finisher forms a part of a second sheet bundle subsequent to a first sheet bundle until discharging the first sheet bundle. The holding unit receives a sheet of the first... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8033539 | Pressdown cam for post processing device A sheet post process device with a stapler mechanism includes a conveying path configured to convey a sheet on which an image is formed to the stapler mechanism; a first sensor disposed along the conveying path and configured to detect a moving position of the sheet... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8006971 | Sheet stack apparatus and sheet stacking method A sheet stack apparatus comprises a storage portion configured to support sheets conveyed one by one in a standing position, a receiving portion configured to receive lower ends of the sheets supported by the storage portion, an assisting member configured to move f... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7992857 | Paper sheet handling device A paper-sheet handling device, as shown in FIG. 23, is a device that transports a bundle of paper-sheets obtained by binding a plurality of paper-sheets and is provided with a clamp movement mechanism 80 that contains lower arms 801a and ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7992856 | Gripper discharge for sheet processing apparatus A sheet processing apparatus is provided with a sheet discharge path (first carry-in path P1) that sequentially carries out a sheet, a processing tray that collects sheets from the sheet discharge path in the shape of a bunch, a stacker that holds the sheets ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7984899 | Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method There is provided a technique in which while the occurrence of a sheet jam is avoided, a pair of folding rollers for a folding process and a stapler for a staple process can be disposed to be close to each other, and a contribution can be made to the improvement of ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7980544 | Hold flap for sheet postprocessing apparatus A sheet hold flap 18 is arranged on an upper side of a vicinity of a rear end portion of a sheet table 7 to which a sheet is continuously supplied from a copier or the like. The sheet hold flap is switched to an upper initial position and a sheet holdi... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7976004 | Sheet tamper and dual moving and pressing units for finisher A finishing device with an output unit that outputs a recorded sheet on which an image is recorded, a sheet stacker that receives the recorded sheet from the output unit and on which the recorded sheet is stacked, and a reference surface against which the recorded s... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7954800 | Openable sheet processing device A sheet processing device includes a sheet aligning unit that aligns a sheet recording medium. The sheet aligning unit is configured to be pulled out from a main body of the sheet processing device, and includes a sheet conveying member for conveying the sheet recor... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954801 | Side position stapler for post-processing device A sheet post-processing device receives a sheet from an image forming apparatus conveys a plurality of the sheets to a staple tray to form a sheet pile, and staples the sheet pile with a stapler. The stapler is arranged along a first side of the staple tray in a she... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946568 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus having movable stopper with two conveyors A saddle stitching portion which can bind the center portion in the conveying direction of a sheet bundle by a stapler and fold it by a pair of folding rollers and a pushout member, includes an end stopper which receives the downstream end of a sheet conveyed by a f... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7913990 | Image forming system, image forming apparatus and program There is described an image forming system, which comprises an image forming apparatus to produce a printing material as one group of recording mediums or plural printing materials as plural groups of recording mediums from a single document set, and a finisher to a... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7896332 | Belt driving mechanism, image forming apparatus including the same, and method for driving belt A belt driving mechanism related to the present invention includes: a toothed drive pulley configure to rotate actively; a toothed driven pulley configured to rotate passively; a toothed belt configured to engage with the toothed drive pulley and the toothed driven ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7874551 | Holding unit having delayed conveyance time A finisher includes: a holding unit; a stapling unit; a discharge unit; and a control unit. The finisher forms a part of a second sheet bundle subsequent to a first sheet bundle until discharging the first sheet bundle. The holding unit receives a sheet of the first... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7866647 | Sheet post-processing apparatus A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a pair of sheet feeding rollers for receiving the sheet supplied from an image forming apparatus and conveying it to the downstream side, a stand-by tray for receiving the delivered sheet and an assist arm arranged at the s... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7857300 | Apparatus and method for disk stacking and compiling media sheets An apparatus (100) and method (1200) that disk stacks and compiles media sheets. The apparatus can include a media sheet transport (120) configured to transport media sheets and a stacker (130) configured to stack the media sheets (110... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7780159 | Sheet processing apparatus with controller for controlling sheet supply unit The present invention provides a sheet processing apparatus comprising a sheet holding device capable of storing supplied sheets, a first sheet stacking tray on which sheets are stacked at a downstream side of the sheet holding device in a sheet conveying direction ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7744076 | Sheet folding apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet processing apparatus for an image forming apparatus is configured so as to be capable of preventing the misalignment of the end edge of sheets to be scooped and transported from an intermediate tray, and reliably preventing the so-called displacement of end ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7677544 | Booklet-loading device, post-treatment device and image-forming system A booklet-loading device includes: a carry-out unit that conveys plural of booklets sequentially; and a transfer unit that transfers the plural of booklets sequentially conveyed from the carry-out unit, and arranges the plural of booklets in a partly overlapped stat... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7654511 | Sheet post-processing apparatus and image formation apparatus provided with the same An apparatus is provided with a processing tray 42 to mount sheets ejected from an image formation section, aligning means (aligning plates 61, etc.) for aligning end portions of a sheet ejected on the processing tray 42, a post-processing appar... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7607651 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The object of the present invention is to provide a sheet processing apparatus for passing sheets between an upper jaw and a lower jaw of a binder that is fixed on a intermediate stacking portion and stapling the ends of the sheet, wherein binding processing is poss... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7591455 | Sheet finishing apparatus In a sheet finishing apparatus of the present invention, when temporarily loading a plurality of sheets of paper on a standby tray until a processing tray finishes processing, to prevent a sheet of paper loaded first from being pressed out by a sheet of paper ejecte... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7588241 | Sheet processing apparatus, sheet processing method, image forming apparatus, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program A sheet processing apparatus which can be reduced in size and suppress cost increase by preventing sheet buckling and jamming. Sheets stacked on an insert tray of a sheet processing apparatus are fed on a conveying path in a first sheet feed mode in which sheets are... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7584948 | Sheet processing apparatus and control method therefor A sheet processing apparatus which is capable of accurately superimposing or aligning sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus during buffering even when the space intervals between the sheets are reduced. A sheet processing apparatus sequentially receives ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7547009 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus So as to more effectively prevent each sheet from being caught, a guide member is provided in a region that extends from an intermediate stacking portion to a staple cartridge portion across a stapler portion main body in a binding portion that performs a binding op... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7543806 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with same A sheet processing apparatus is provided with a processing tray on which sheets are to be stacked and subjected to a processing, a stack tray provided in the downstream of the processing tray with respect to the sheet conveying direction on which sheets are to be st... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7520499 | Waiting tray for sheet processing tray 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... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7429037 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same The sheet processing apparatus is equipped with a process tray on which sheets conveyed are stacked, a return belt which moves the sheets stacked on the process tray, a trailing edge stopper which receives an end portion of the sheets moved by the return belt, and a... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7419151 | Sheet processing apparatus A sheet processing apparatus includes a first roller pair conveying a sheet received from an external apparatus, a second roller pair conveying the sheet conveyed from the first roller pair, a jogging tray configured to receive the sheet conveyed from the second rol... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7419150 | Sheet stacking apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet stacking apparatus includes an intermediate process tray stacked with sheets, a trailing end lever movable upward from a pressing position in which to press the sheets on the intermediate process tray, a lever stopper regulating the upward movement of the tr... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7413178 | Sheet processing apparatus and control method therefor A sheet processing apparatus which is capable of accurately superimposing or aligning sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus during buffering even when the space intervals between the sheets are reduced. A sheet processing apparatus sequentially receives ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7413179 | Bookbinding apparatus, bookbinding system and image formation processing system In a bookbinding apparatus, an adhesive applying portion applies an adhesive to an end face of a sheet bundle allowed to stand in the substantially vertical direction, a storage portion that gathers and stores the sheet bundle which is applied with the adhesive and ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7410156 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same A sheet processing apparatus includes a processing tray on which sheets are stacked in a bundle form, an intermediate portion stapler which staples the intermediate portion of the sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray, a sheet bundle conveying member which con... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410158 | Image forming apparatus and method A copy machine achieves a reduction in power consumption when performing a saddle-stitching operation. An image forming unit forms visible images on recording sheets in accordance with image data stored in a memory device. A post-processing unit collects the recordi... | 08/12/2008 |
