| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080258373 | Post-processing apparatus and image forming system - A post-processing apparatus including a conveyance unit containing a stacker for storing a plurality of sheets placed one on top of the other and a conveyance path having a curvature for ejecting a plurality of sheets placed one on top of the other in the stacker and a control section for controlling conveyance of sheets, wherein the control section controls aligning the plurality of sheets in the conveyance unit, feeding a plurality of sheets placed one on top of the other to a roller through the conveyance path having a curvature, driving the conveyance roller so as to feed the plurality of sheets, hitting the sheet ends against a stopper so as to align the sheet ends, further conveying the sheets with the ends aligned until a loop is formed on sheets, and punching the sheets using by a punching section subsequent to formation of the loop. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080315490 | SHEET STACKING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH - A sheet stacking apparatus includes: a stacking tray which stacks a fold-processed and ejected sheet, and descends in response to a mass of stacked sheets; and a first sheet pressing member which holds the stacked sheets downward from an upper side of the stacked sheets at a constant height. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090001648 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus including: a sheet supporting table that supports a sheet stack made of a plurality of sheets which have been folded; a stopper against which a first edge of the sheet stack which is a side to be cut of the sheet stack is pressed on the sheet supporting table; and a pushing member which pushes a second edge of the sheet stack so that the first edge is pressed against the stopper, wherein the pushing member comprises a first surface that is inclined with respect to a sheet supporting surface of the sheet supporting table so that the first surface restricts a height of the folded part of the sheet stack with respect to the sheet supporting surface when the pushing member presses the sheet stack towards the stopper. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090116857 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming section for forming an image on a sheet; a tray on which an image-formed sheet is discharged as a discharged-sheet; and a controller for setting an amount of sheet to be discharged, the amount being smaller than a load limit of discharged-sheet on the tray, obtaining an amount of the sheet on the tray, comparing the obtained amount of the sheet with the set amount of the sheet, and executing at least one of warning about the amount of the discharged-sheet and stopping an image forming job for driving the image forming section on the basis of the comparison result. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090127773 | SHEET ALIGNING APPARATUS - In a sheet aligning apparatus, a pair of sheet aligning members stops at three positions such that when a sheet aligning operation is not conducted, the pair of sheet aligning members is stopped at the first position of an upper level so as not to come in contact with sheets discharged from a discharging section, when the sorting section shifts for sorting, the pair of sheet aligning members is stopped at the second position of a middle level lower than the first position so as not to come in contact with sheets stacked on the tray, and when a sheet aligning operation is conducted, the pair of sheet aligning members is stopped at the third position of a lower level so as to come in contact with the top surface of the tray or the upper surface of the sheets stacked on the tray. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090289412 | SHEET EJECTION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET FINISHER PROVIDED THEREWITH - A sheet ejection device includes: a sheet ejection tray adapted to stack a sheet ejected thereon; an alignment member which aligns a position in a width direction and a direction perpendicular to a sheet ejection direction of the sheet on the sheet ejection tray; and a supporting unit which supports the alignment member so that the alignment member is displaced in a direction intersecting the sheet ejection direction when outer force is applied to the alignment member. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090295074 | SHEET EJECTION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet ejection device capable of applying shift processing to the sheets on an ejection tray, using the alignment member contacting the sheets at a plurality of points in the direction in which the sheets are ejected. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100132525 | SHEET CUTTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM PROVIDED THEREWITH - A sheet cutting device includes: an interposing section that interposes a sheet bundle in which a plurality of sheets are bundled; a cutting blade section having a cutting blade that cuts a sheet bundle interposed by the interposing section; a blade receiving member that receives a cutting edge of the cutting blade in the case of cutting; and a controller that controls a stop position of the cutting blade in the case of cutting. The controller controls the cutting blade section so that an amount of movement from a standby position of the cutting blade to the stop position becomes great when the number of times of cutting operations is increased. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100209164 | POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - In a post-processing apparatus in which sheets are stacked in a stacker section and arranged to be subject to post-processing, the stacker section is provided with a sheet ejection section which subsequently ejects the sheets one by one or two or more sheets overlapped with each other, wherein the sheet ejection section is provided with a corrugation application member to apply corrugation onto the sheet to be ejected and to change extent of the corrugation to be applied. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100225042 | 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 section; a conveying section which sends two sheets to the stacking section under the condition that the two sheets are shifted each other in a conveyance direction and are superimposed; an input section in which sheet type information is inputted; and a controller which adjusts a shift amount between the two sheets so that the sheet on a lower side precedes toward the stopper by a prescribed amount, when a conveyance condition of the conveyance section is changed based on the inputted sheet type information inputted, and the two sheets are conveyed to the stacking section with the two sheets superimposed. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110115153 | PAPER DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH PAPER DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A paper discharge apparatus including, a paper loading portion for loading a paper which is discharged; a paper rear-end abutting portion which a rear end of paper in a paper conveying direction abuts; a pair of paper holding members for holding the paper at the paper holding position when the paper is discharged; a paper holding member moving device which is connected to at least one of the pair of the paper holding members and moves the pair of the paper holding members from a paper holding position to a paper loading position; when the pair of the paper holding members reach the paper loading position, the paper holding member moving device moves at least one of the pair of the paper holding members in the opposite direction of the paper conveying direction and makes the rear end of the holding paper abut the paper rear-end abutting portion. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110150550 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet post-processing apparatus including, a sheet receiving section to receive sheets, a punching device to punch sheets; an accumulating section to accumulate sheets; a stitching device to stitch the sheets accumulated in the accumulating section; a sheet discharging section to which the sheets stitched by the stitching device are discharged; and a conveyance path to connect the sheet receiving section, the punching device, the accumulating section, and the sheet discharging section, wherein the conveyance path comprises an upper loop and a lower loop and has an S-shaped conveyance path to convey a sheet from the sheet receiving section to the accumulating section; and the punching device is arranged in the upper loop. | 06-23-2011 |