Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
412011000 | With control means responsive to sensed condition | 26 |
20080199277 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system - A sheet processing apparatus, including: a booklet making section for making a booklet by covering a sheet bundle comprised of a plurality of sheets with a cover in a U-shape; a folding section for forming a fold-line on a coversheet, which covers the booklet made by the book making section; cover sheet conveyance section for conveying the coversheet; a measurement section for measuring a thickness of the sheet bundle; and a control section for controlling operations of the cover sheet conveyance section and the folding section to determine a folding position on the coversheet and form a fold-line on the folding position; wherein the folding position has been determined based on size information of the coversheet, size information of a sheet of the sheet bundle and thickness information of the sheet bundle measured by the measurement section. | 08-21-2008 |
20080206018 | Leafing Mechanism - A machine and methods for automatically opening a closed book, for example a passport, to a desired page for subsequent processing on the page. The book is inserted into the machine in a closed configuration. The machine then opens the book to the appropriate page for subsequent processing either in the machine or in a separate processing machine. A pin is inserted between two adjacent sheets of the book to define a first book portion and a second book portion, and the pin is used to assist in moving the first book portion away from the second book portion to expose the desired page for subsequent processing. | 08-28-2008 |
20080240888 | 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, plural recording sheets on which images are formed; a bonding unit to form a booklet by bonding a cover with the bookblock stack; a setting unit to set a bookblock size, a cover size, and a finishing size; a cutting unit to cut the booklet bonded together with the cover into the finishing size; a stack thickness detection unit to detect a thickness of the bookblock stack; and a bookbinding permission/inhibition determination unit to determine permission/inhibition of a bookbinding operation based on a stack thickness detection result as well as the bookblock size, the cover size, and the finishing size set by the setting unit. | 10-02-2008 |
20080304934 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND BOOKBINDING SYSTEM - A bookbinding apparatus which forms a sheet bundle by aligning a plurality of sheets fed from an image forming apparatus and prepares a booklet by applying adhesive on a spine of the sheet bundle, the bookbinding apparatus includes: a storage member for storing the adhesive; a rotating member for rotating in contact with the adhesive in the storage member; a heater for melting the adhesive in the storage member and for heating the adhesive so as to reach a preset temperature; and a control device for controlling the preset temperature, at a termination of the bookbinding job, to switch from a first preset temperature for a time of bookbinding to a second preset temperature which is below the first preset temperature and equal to or above a melting point of the adhesive. | 12-11-2008 |
20090035093 | Bookbinding Method, and Bookbinding Unit and Image-Forming System Equipped with the Same - Bookbinding unit that in binding an inner-leave sheet bundle together with a cover enables accurate binding of the cover onto the bundle's spine and meanwhile forms folding scores in the cover flaps. Furnished with: a stacking tray unit; a process path for sequentially transporting bundles from the tray unit into adhesive-application and cover-binding locations; an adhesive application unit, disposed in the adhesive-application location, that applies adhesive to bundles from the tray unit; a cover-supply unit that supplies covers to the cover-binding location; and a cover-binding unit, disposed in the cover-binding location, that binds sheet bundles from the adhesive-application location together with covers. The cover-binding unit has a shoulder-pressing unit that forms spine creases in the spine portion of the covers, and a flap-pressing unit that forms folds in the spine-creased sides of the covers. | 02-05-2009 |
20090047101 | Book Binding Machine with a Book Block Transport System and Lubrication Clamp for a Book Block Transport System in a Book Binding Machine - A book binding machine includes a book block transport system and a plurality of clamps for clamping stacks of leaves. The clamps are disposed at a distance from each other and are guided in guide tracks of a machine frame. The book block transport system includes a clamp, which is also referred to as a lubrication clamp, having a device for lubricating the guide track. An applicator is assigned to each track roller of the clamp, and the lubricant is transferred to the track rollers through the use of a respective applicator such as a brush. The track rollers transfer the lubricant to contact surfaces of the guide track. A lubrication clamp for a book block transport system in a book binding machine, is also provided. | 02-19-2009 |
20090067950 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A bookbinding apparatus, which is capable of being attached to an image forming apparatus, and bookbinding by adhering a cover sheet onto a spine of a sheet bundle formed by a plurality of sheets on each of which an image has been formed by the image forming apparatus, the bookbinding apparatus including: a coating section for coating adhesive onto the spine of the sheet bundle; a heater for heating the adhesive; a temperature detection section for detecting temperature of the adhesive; an input section for receiving input from a user; and a heater control section for controlling the heater based on a detection result of the temperature detection section based on the input from the input section so that temperature of the adhesive becomes a predetermined control temperature, and changing a control condition of the heater. | 03-12-2009 |
20090129892 | Book-binding system - A book-binding system includes an image forming apparatus, a binder, a detector, and an operation unit. The image forming apparatus forms images on a plurality of sheets. The binder is connectable to the image forming apparatus and binds with a binding member the plurality of sheets on which the images are formed by the image forming apparatus. The detector acquires information on the plurality of sheets fed from the image forming apparatus to the binder and information on consumables used to bind the plurality of sheets. The operation unit displays the information on the consumables in a selectable manner for input. The input from the operation unit allows selection of consumables depending on the number and type of sheets bound in the binder. | 05-21-2009 |
20110280689 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet stacking unit, a binding unit, a folding unit, a conveyance unit, a press unit, a grasping unit, and a control unit. The binding unit performs binding processing on a sheet bundle stacked in the sheet stacking unit. The folding unit folds the sheet bundle that is subjected to binding processing. The conveyance unit conveys the folded sheet bundle. The press unit presses a fold line portion of the conveyed sheet bundle. The grasping unit is separate from the conveyance unit and switches between a first state in which the grasping unit grasps the conveyed sheet bundle to fix the sheet bundle in position and a second state in which the grasping unit does not grasp the conveyed sheet bundle. The control unit shifts the grasping unit to the first state and causes the press unit to press the sheet bundle. | 11-17-2011 |
20120076617 | 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, plural recording sheets on which images are formed; a bonding unit to form a booklet by bonding a cover with the bookblock stack; a setting unit to set a bookblock size, a cover size, and a finishing size; a cutting unit to cut the booklet bonded together with the cover into the finishing size; a stack thickness detection unit to detect a thickness of the bookblock stack; and a bookbinding permission/inhibition determination unit to determine permission/inhibition of a bookbinding operation based on a stack thickness detection result as well as the bookblock size, the cover size, and the finishing size set by the setting unit. | 03-29-2012 |
20120195715 | COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PREVIEW DISPLAY PROGRAM, PREVIEW DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PREVIEW DISPLAY METHOD - A computer readable information recording medium stores a preview display program that performs, when executed by one or more processors, functions of a part configured to determine setting information for imposition type; a part configured to determine setting information for finishing; and a part configured to display preview images for a state after bookbinding in a case where the setting information for imposition type, determined by the part configured to determine setting information for imposition type, includes a setting of magazine or mini book and the setting information for finishing, determined by the part configured to determine setting information for finishing, includes a setting for carrying out the bookbinding, and display preview images for a state before the bookbinding in the other cases. | 08-02-2012 |
20120275881 | MACHINE FOR PRODUCING BOOKS, IN PARTICULAR PHOTO BOOKS AND/OR ILLUSTRATED BOOKS - Machine for producing books, in particular photo books and/or illustrated books includes sheet web dispensing station for dispensing a sheet web moved in its longitudinal direction, printed and/or coated and/or phototechnically processed on one side and provided with print marks and/or print job codes, cross-cutting station arranged downstream of the sheet web dispensing station, grooving and creasing station arranged downstream of the cross-cutting station for the central grooving and creasing of the sheets crosswise to their direction of movement, laminating station for the flat connection of several consecutive creased sheets to one another, three-side cutting station, book cover supply station for supplying and feeding a respectively predetermined individual book cover for the respective book block, joining station downstream of the three-side cutting station for joining book block and assigned book cover and dispensing station for dispensing the completed books. | 11-01-2012 |
20120308334 | MACHINE FOR FORMING AT LEAST ONE CREASE ON COVER BEFORE ATTACHMENT TO BOOK BINDING - A cover S is fed between pairs of first and second feed rollers | 12-06-2012 |
20130164100 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet stacking unit, a binding unit, a folding unit, a conveyance unit, a press unit, a grasping unit, and a control unit. The binding unit performs binding processing on a sheet bundle stacked in the sheet stacking unit. The conveyance unit conveys a sheet bundle folded by the folding unit. The press unit presses a fold line portion of the conveyed sheet bundle from a direction perpendicular to a surface of a front page of the sheet bundle while moving along the fold line portion. The grasping unit is switched between a first state in which the grasping unit fixes the sheet bundle in position and a second state in which the grasping unit does not grasp the conveyed sheet bundle. The control unit shifts the grasping unit to the first state and causes the press unit to press the sheet bundle. | 06-27-2013 |
20130170925 | Book Binding Adhesive Application Controller - A device for controlling the application of glue on the spine of a book. The device consists of a computerized controller that tracks the precise location of the book in the binding system, and a servo motor that controls a doctor blade, the servo motor is connected to the controller and is instructed when to open or close the doctor blade at the precise time to precisely place the glue on the book spine. The doctor blade can also be adjusted to control the thickness of the glue on the book spine. | 07-04-2013 |
20130236269 | BOOKBINDING CONTROL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, BOOKBINDING SYSTEM, AND BOOKBINDING CONTROL METHOD - A bookbinding control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires print data including post-processing unnecessary pages and post-processing necessary pages, a printing controller that, after post-processed sheets on which post-processing is performed on sheets with the printed post-processing necessary pages are supplied to a sheet feed unit, prints the post-processing unnecessary pages in print data, a first transport controller that performs control so as to transport sheets with the printed post-processing unnecessary pages to an accumulation unit of a bookbinding device, a second transport controller that performs control so as to transport the post-processed sheet supplied to the sheet feed unit to the accumulation unit of the bookbinding device, and a bookbinding controller that performs control so as to execute bookbinding on the sheets transported to the accumulation unit of the bookbinding device after printing based on print data ends. | 09-12-2013 |
20130280015 | DATA EDITING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - In casing-in bookbinding, in which a book sheet block of book sheets is wrapped with a cover, an input of pieces of information about the length of a short side of the book sheets, the length of a long side of the cover, and the thickness of a spine cover of the cover is received. Judgment is made, based on the received information, whether the length of the long side of the cover is less than a value obtained by adding the thickness of the spine cover to twice the length of the short side of the book sheets. If the length of the long side of the cover is less than the obtained value, an alert is issued to urge the user to change at least one of the pieces of information. | 10-24-2013 |
20130294868 | PERFECT BINDING MACHINE - A measurement unit ( | 11-07-2013 |
20140186142 | Book Binding Adhesive Application Controller - A device for controlling the application of glue on the spine of a book. The device consists of a computerized controller that tracks the precise location of the book in the binding system, and a servo motor that controls a doctor blade, the servo motor is connected to the controller and is instructed when to open or close the doctor blade at the precise time to precisely place the glue on the book spine. The doctor blade can also be adjusted to control the thickness of the glue on the book spine. | 07-03-2014 |
20140241834 | BOOKBINDING SYSTEM - A bookbinding system includes a printing device which performs printing on text sheets and a cover sheet, a bookbinding device which binds a book by case binding a sheet stack of printed text sheets with a printed cover sheet, and an information processor which outputs bookbinding print data to the printing device. The bookbinding system includes a text sheet retainer which retains one or more types of text sheets, an environmental condition detector which detects environmental conditions in the printing device, a setting unit which sets types and numbers of text sheets, and a sheet stack thickness prediction unit which calculates a prediction value of thickness of a sheet stack including text sheets to be bound, based on the thickness and numbers of sheets of respective types set by the setting unit, according to current environmental conditions detected by the environmental condition detector. | 08-28-2014 |
20140334900 | VERIFYING THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC OF PRINTED CONTENT FOR BINDING - Disclosed are various embodiments relating to verifying a printed work comprises a correct number of pages. Associated with a stack comprising one or more pages is an identifier that may be used to obtain an expected value for a physical characteristic of the pages in the stack. A sensor may then measure an actual value for the physical characteristic of the pages in the stack. Before binding the pages in the stack, the expected value may be compared to the actual value in order to verify the stack comprises the correct number of pages. | 11-13-2014 |
20150086297 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING DEVICE, PAPER-MADE STAPLE USED IN THE DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SHEET POST-PROCESSING DEVICE - A sheet post-processing device includes a stacker section that temporarily stores paper sheets as a paper sheet bundle, a stopper that regulates a carrying-in direction leading end of the paper sheet carried into the stacker section, a binding section that binds the paper sheet bundle regulated in position by the stopper, and folding rollers and a folding blade that perform folding processing for the sheet bundle bound by the binding section at a predetermined folding position of the paper sheet bundle. The binding section binds the paper sheet bundle with a paper-made staple. The stopper sets a position of the paper sheet bundle such that a binding position of the paper-made staple straddles the predetermined folding position. With this configuration, there can be provided a sheet-post processing device capable of folding the staple together with the paper sheet bundle. | 03-26-2015 |
20150375555 | SADDLE-STITCH AND FOLD MACHINE - The creaser | 12-31-2015 |
412012000 | And randomly actuated stopping or disabling means | 3 |
20080219802 | Bookbinding apparatus and image forming system - A bookbinding apparatus for producing a booklet by coating an adhesive onto a back side of a bundle of sheets and by pasting a book cover onto the back side of the bundle of sheets, comprises: an oblique cutout portion forming section to form a cutout on an edge of each sheet of the bundle of sheets in such a way that an oblique cutout portion is formed along the width of the back side of the bundle of sheets; a sheet bundle accommodating section to accommodate the bundle of sheets on which the oblique cutout portion is formed; a coating section to coat an adhesive on the back side of the bundle of sheets accommodated in the sheet bundle accommodating section; and a bookbinding section to paste a book cover on the adhesive-coated back side of the bundle of sheets so as to produce the booklet. | 09-11-2008 |
20090081001 | Bookbinding Unit - Bookbinding unit eliminating the necessity of a user, in placing collated inner leaves onto a tray, pre-measuring the bundle thickness, and the danger of fingers getting pinched during the placement. Furnished with: inner-leaf tray; coversheet tray; gripping conveyor gripping and transporting bundles of leaf-tray sheets; coversheet conveyor feeding coversheet-tray covers and placing them in a binding location; adhesive applicator applying adhesive to bundle spine-portion endfaces; cover binder binding bundles and covers together; and controller encasing bundles in covers to form booklets. A first detector, in the inner-leaf tray, detects thickness of bundles therein, and a second detector, in the gripping conveyor, detects thickness of the gripped bundles. The controller prohibits the gripping conveyor from conveying inner leaves out from the inner-leaf tray when the thickness of a sheet bundle detected by the first detector is more than a predetermined thickness. | 03-26-2009 |
20140334901 | SHEET BINDING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet binding processing apparatus for avoiding the residual of binding member is provided. The sheet binding processing apparatus comprises a sheet insertion port through which a sheet bundle formed of a plurality of sheets S is inserted, a movable stapler for binding the sheet bundle inserted through the sheet insertion port, and a manual stapling sheet sensor for detecting, at a predetermined detection time interval, existence or non-existence of the sheet bundle in the sheet insertion port. When the manual stapling sheet sensor detects the existence of the sheet bundle, the sheet binding processing apparatus gives permission to bind the sheet bundle by the movable stapler. | 11-13-2014 |