Patents Assigned to Nisca Corporation
  • Patent number: 10556458
    Abstract: Single perforating unit is enabled to perforate for file binders and to cut milling grooves, while with a simple structure file-binder storage and booklet-binding can be carried out reliably. Configurations include: a convey-in path for sequentially transferring sheets; a stacker for collating into bundles sheets from the convey-in path; and an adhesive-layer applicator for adding an adhesive layer to the spine-closure edge of sheet bundles from the stacker. A perforating unit is provided in along the convey-in path, and a control unit for controlling position and/or number of perforations made by the perforating unit is provided with (1) a first operation mode in which it effects the punching of a predetermined number of holes in the edge of sheets, and (2) a second operation mode in which it effects the formation of a predetermined number of crenulated grooves in the edge of sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Nisca Corporation
    Inventors: Sei Takahashi, Hideki Orii, Naoki Ueda, Keiichi Nagasawa, Kazuyuki Kubota
  • Publication number: 20180001673
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a media processing apparatus for enabling a plurality of discharge sections disposed one side of the apparatus to be disposed parallel inside saved space, the media processing apparatus is provided with a plurality of discharge sections (correct card discharge section and error card discharge section) disposed on one side of an apparatus housing, and a discharge member (card reverse section) that discharges a card C to each discharge section. In such a card processing apparatus, a width dimension (length dimension in the discharge direction of the card) of a discharge stacker of the first card discharge section is wider than a width dimension of the card C, and a width dimension of a frame body of the error card discharge section is narrower than the width dimension of the card C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto TAKESHITA, Tetsuya NODA, Yasutake OHSHIRO, Hiroaki MOROBOSHI, Hiroshi MOCHIZUKI
  • Publication number: 20170362047
    Abstract: The present apparatus is provided with a placement tray (processing tray) to place sheets to undergo binding processing, and a bind unit that is able to shift along an end edge of sheets on the placement tray and that binds a plurality of sheets as a single bunch, where in the bind unit, a needle bind unit for performing binding processing on a bunch of sheets with a needle and a needleless bind unit for performing binding processing without a needle are provided together in a shift direction of the bind unit, and a length of the needleless bind unit is configured to be shorter than a length of the needle bind unit in the shift direction of the bind unit. By this means, provided is the apparatus capable of miniaturizing the entire apparatus, with the needle bind unit and needleless bind unit provided together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Misao KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170362048
    Abstract: The present apparatus includes a placement tray to place sheets to undergo binding processing, and a press bind unit shifting along an end edge of sheets on the placement tray. The press bind unit includes a receiving tooth, and pressing teeth meshing with the receiving tooth to perform press binding on sheets nipped therebetween, and the pressing teeth are provided to shift between a press position for meshing with the receiving tooth, and a retract position spaced apart from the receiving tooth so as to shift the press bind unit along the end edge of sheets with the sheets disposed between the receiving tooth and the pressing teeth. By shifting the pressing teeth to the retract position, it is possible to shift the sheet bind apparatus smoothly along the end edge of a bunch of sheets with the sheets disposed between the receiving tooth and the pressing teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Misao KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170315492
    Abstract: The present sheet processing apparatus comprises: a pressure tooth part that has a concave-convex surface and pressurizes the sheet bundle; a receiving tooth part that is disposed opposite to the pressure tooth part so as to receive pressurization from the pressure tooth part with the sheet bundle held therebetween; a moving part that reciprocates the pressure tooth part with respect to a receiving surface of the receiving tooth part; and a drive part that drives the moving part that moves the pressure tooth part for crimping of the sheet bundle. The pressure tooth part is divided in the direction crossing the pressurizing direction of the pressure tooth part into a plurality of pressure tooth parts, and the obtained pressure tooth parts are sequentially pressurized for crimping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Misao KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170295292
    Abstract: A mechanism for supporting a traveling body includes a traveling body which reciprocates and shifts, a track member extending in a direction in which the traveling body shifts, a track surface provided in the track member to slide the traveling body, a drive section that drives the traveling body, and a slide member provided in the traveling body to support the traveling body slidably via a lubricant between the track surface and the slide member. The slide member includes a slide contact portion that slides on the track surface, a slide barrier portion provided on at least one side of the slide contact portion along a slide direction of the slide contact portion, and a guide portion which scrapes the lubricant in association with sliding of the slide contact portion, and guides the lubricant to between the slide contact portion and the slide barrier portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170291428
    Abstract: In order to provide an image forming apparatus capable of forming a high quality image on a film-shaped medium, the present printer includes an image forming section B1 that forms an image on a transfer film using an ink ribbon, a film conveying mechanism that has a motor Mr4 and conveys the transfer film while applying a tension thereto, an ink ribbon conveying section that has a motor Mr3 and conveys the ink ribbon while applying a tension thereto, and a control section that controls the image forming section B1, motor Mr3, and motor Mr4. When adjusting the drive amount of one of the motors Mr3 and Mr4, the control section also adjusts the drive amount of the other one thereof according to the adjustment amount of the one motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi AIHARA
  • Publication number: 20170283208
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a stack portion on which sheets conveyed in a conveying direction are stacked, a first regulating portion regulating a position of a sheet bundle stacked on the stack portion in a crossing direction crossing the conveying direction by contacting an end of the sheet bundle in the crossing direction, a second regulating portion regulating a position of the sheet bundle in the conveying direction by contacting an end of the sheet bundle in the conveying direction, a first binding device which moves in the crossing direction and binds by a staple, a second binding device which moves and binds without a staple, and a controller which controls the first and second binding devices. The first and second binding devices bind the corner portion of the sheet bundle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicants: NISCA CORPORATION, CANON FINETECH INC.
    Inventors: Satoru MATSUKI, Daiki KOMIYA, Kazuhito SHIMURA
  • Patent number: 9751276
    Abstract: A sheet binding device includes a pressurizing unit that pressurizes a sheet bundle to bind the sheet bundle, a pressurizing section that is disposed in the pressurizing unit and configured to be moved from a waiting position separated from the sheet bundle to a pressurizing position at which the pressurizing section pressurizes the sheet bundle, a drive motor that actuates the pressurizing unit, and a controller that controls the drive motor such that the pressurizing section is engaged with the sheet bundle at a predetermined setting velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: CANON FINETECH INC., NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Kamiya, Masayuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9740969
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a printer device capable of obtaining a print result having a good balance between characters in a predetermined print area and thus having good appearance. When the print length of an input character string is to be corrected, a comparison is first made in terms of the length of blank in each character and/or clearance between characters. In a case where minus correction is performed to reduce the print length, the blank or clearance is deleted by one column at a time preferentially from the area where the length of the blank and/or clearance is larger; while in a case where plus correction is performed to increase the print length, the clearance is added by one column at a time preferentially to the area where the length of the blank and/or clearance is smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motoki Kasai
  • Patent number: 9731536
    Abstract: A sheet folding apparatus includes a retract path that is positioned on the upstream side of a stacker section for collecting sheets and that branches off from a transport path to enable a sheet carried in the stacker section to be transported in a direction opposite to a carry-in direction, an adhesion unit that is positioned in a junction position of the transport path and the retract path to bond sheets by applying an adhesive, a staple binding unit that binds sheets collected in the stacker section with a staple, and a folding processing section that folds sheets bound with the unit. The retract path is a path for retracting an application position of the preceding sheet with the adhesive applied, in carrying a next sheet in the stacker section, and the staple binding unit is disposed in the stacker section between the adhesion unit and the folding processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Osada, Takashi Saito, Isao Kondo
  • Patent number: 9725275
    Abstract: A sheet binding processing apparatus including a processing tray, a sheet positioning device, a first binding device, a second binding device, a driving device which moves the second binding device to a binding position where the sheets positioned by the sheet positioning device are to be bound and to a retracting position for retracting to the outside of the sheets positioned by the sheet positioning device, and a controller which controls the driving device and causes the second binding device to be located at the retracting position when the first binding device binds sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignees: CANON FINETECH INC., NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Matsuki, Daiki Komiyama, Kazuhito Shimura
  • Patent number: 9729745
    Abstract: A mechanism for fixing a transmission cable enables a wiring shape of a flat cable to be held relatively reliably when the cable is acted upon by torsion force, tensile force and the like from the outside without the cable skin sustaining damage. A foldable insulation sheet is joined in folding surfaces, and a position of the flat cable is regulated by at least the fold portion thereof and joint portion. The mechanism is includes a flat cable, a foldable insulation sheet, and joint portions for joining folding surfaces of the insulation sheet. At least one of the fold portion of the insulation sheet and the joint portions is disposed in a position for regulating the flat cable. Thus, the flat cable is nipped by the folding surfaces of the insulation sheet, and its wiring shape is held by the fold portion or the joint portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20170217714
    Abstract: The present sheet processing apparatus is to obtain that folding in the center portion in the width direction of sheets is made, folding in the end portion is made more reliably by repeatedly pressing the end portion in the width direction, the folded sheets are harder to open, the appearance is also enhanced, and that collection characteristics are improved in stacking bunches of folded sheets, a sheet processing apparatus is provided with pairs of press members (press rollers 70) that press a folded loop BL of folding sheets BS, and a support unit 56 that shifts in the width direction of the folding sheets, while supporting a plurality of rows with a distance between the press members narrowed stepwise in the shift direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi HORIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170217229
    Abstract: In order to provide an image forming apparatus which can reduce color deviation at the time of forming an image on a medium, the present printing apparatus comprises an image forming unit which forms an image by superimposing images, each formed with corresponding color of ink, on a transfer film while heating a thermal head, a film conveying device which conveys a transfer film, a sensor which detects a stretch of the transfer film occurring due to heating with the thermal head, a controller which controls the image forming unit to change a line cycle of the thermal head in accordance with a stretch of the transfer film detected by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi AIHARA
  • Publication number: 20170217708
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus is provided with a pick-up roller that contacts sheets loaded on a load tray to pick up, a paper feed roller that feeds a picked-up sheet, and a separation roller brought into press-contact with the paper feed roller to separate the sheet, where the sheets are separated from the pick-up roller, the separation roller is rotated in a sheet return direction different from a sheet feed direction, and subsequently, the paper feed roller is separated from the separation roller. It is possible to prevent damage to a sheet and sheet jam from occurring in pulling out the load tray loaded with sheets to the front side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji SATAKE
  • Patent number: 9709209
    Abstract: To achieve a mechanism that supports an article at a desired position in a displaceable manner in accordance with a weight of the article with a simple, small, and lightweight structure. An article supporting device 1 includes a base member 2, a supporting member 3, a spring member 4 which is a compression coil spring, a spring force transmission member 5, a cam member 6, and a cam follower member 7. The cam follower member is pressed against a downward-facing cam surface 15 of the support member, an upward-facing cam surface 18 of the spring force transmission member, and a sideward-facing cam surface 22 of the cam member by a load of an article and a spring force of the spring member. The downward-facing cam surface and upward-facing cam surface are inclined in reverse directions to each other and disposed opposite to each other with the cam follower member interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuzo Aoyagi, Hiroto Akiyama, Toru Ochiai, Masayuki Yamamoto, Toshiki Ono
  • Patent number: 9710029
    Abstract: In a blast mechanism for optimizing an air blast in the main scanning direction and an air blast in the sub-scanning direction so as not to affect reading accuracy of an image, a first blast path for sending air in the main scanning direction and a second blast path for sending air in the sub-scanning direction are formed inside the housing, and collection efficiencies of air filters of the blast paths are set so that the efficiency in the main scanning direction is high than that in the sub-scanning direction. The blast mechanism includes a casing, first and second blast paths in the main and sub-scanning directions disposed in the casing, and air filters disposed in the respective blast paths. The dust collection efficiencies of the air filters are set so that the filter of the first blast path is higher than the filter of the second blast path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION, NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9701495
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a sheet feeding apparatus to feed a sheet including a pressing member that presses and regulates one end in the width direction of sheets on a stack tray, an urging member that urges the pressing member, and an urging force changing mechanism that changes an urging force of the urging member in accordance with a sheet thickness, the urging force changing mechanism provides a pressing force in accordance with a sheet kind, so that sheets can be reliably aligned and fed in an appropriate posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Ito
  • Publication number: 20170183189
    Abstract: A present sheet post-processing device includes a first tray for stacking a sheet, a processing tray that temporarily stacks conveyed sheets until the number of the sheets reaches a predetermined number, and a discharge mechanism that discharges the sheets stacked on the processing tray onto the first tray. A sheet bundle forming unit divides, when forming a first sheet bundle on the first tray, sheets constituting the first sheet bundle into a plurality of sets and discharges the sheets a plurality of times for each set. At this time, a number of sheets included in a sheet set that constitutes a first sheet bundle and that is discharged at the first time is set smaller than a number of sheets included in a sheet set that constitutes a second sheet bundle and that is discharged at the first time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoru MATSUKI